Alfred Drost

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Alfred Drost (born September 14, 1939 ) is a former German basketball referee .

Life

Drost came into contact with basketball in 1954, he played the sport at the Evangelical Community Youth (EGJ) Dortmund-Schüren, in 1958 he passed the C-referee exam, one year he was B-referee and 1960 A-referee. He became the youngest referee in the A-squad of the German Basketball Association (DBB). In 1967 he was also authorized to direct games for FIBA on an international level. Until 1982 Drost was in 110 international matches, 55 European Cup games, including two European Cup finals, as a referee. After he left the FIBA ​​referee squad in 1982, Drost, who was professionally active as an authorized signatory and head of the personnel department at Krupp Hoesch Stahl AG , took over the work of the technical commissioner for the world association, supervising and thus responsible for the orderly process of the staging of games. In 1990 he was also elected to the FIBA ​​Technical Commission, which advises, among other things, on regulatory issues.

At the German Basketball Association, Drost was a referee consultant from 1988 to 1992 and for many years a member of the referees commission and of the DBB's "Working Group Rules", which deals with the rules of basketball and publishes, among other things, the interpretations of the rules, which are supplementary explanations of the rules . He sat on the board of the Dortmund basketball group for more than 30 years and was responsible for legal matters.

For years, as at international level, Drost was also employed as a technical inspector at games in the basketball league , and in the course of the 2005/06 season he retired at his own request.

When he reached the age of 70, Drost resigned from FIBA ​​as a technical inspector, but remained active as a judge for FIBA ​​for another year in order to impose appropriate penalties for special reports on rule violations at games.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ DBB internal: birthdays . In: DBB-Journal . tape 16 . German Basketball Association, 2010, p. 72 .
  2. ↑ a b Bernd Materne: Alfred Drost is 60. In: bbsr.de. September 14, 1999, accessed December 22, 2018 .
  3. ↑ The “basketball” phenomenon: Invention - enthusiasm - dissemination. German Basketball Association, accessed on December 21, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Basketball Rule Interpretation 2010. Interpretation of the Official Basketball Rules. German Basketball Association, accessed December 22, 2018 .
  5. ↑ http://igbs.de/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Newsletter-2006-03.pdf
  6. ^ Elisabeth Kozlowski: Alfred Drost - a man for clear decisions . In: DBB-Journal . tape 11 . German Basketball Association, 2009, p. 22, 23 .
personal data
SURNAME Drost, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball referee
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1939