Bernd Bonte

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Bernd Bönte, 2008

Bernhard Fritz Peter Bönte (born December 13, 1955 ) is a German sports journalist and sports manager.

life and career

Bönte studied at the Free University of Berlin and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he completed a master's degree in politics, history and German.

His first professional station was the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation , where he initially worked as an intern, then as an intern and later as a freelancer. Editorial positions at AZ Munich, Eureka TV / Pro 7 and Tele 5 followed from 1990 onwards at Sat.1 . Here he was used as a commentator and moderator in the fields of soccer , ice hockey , golf , boxing and tennis . In these sports he also worked for his subsequent employer, the pay-TV broadcaster Premiere , to which he switched in 1993.

From 2000 to 2006, Bönte was the manager of the Klitschko brothers. From 2007 he was managing director and co-owner of the Klitschko Management Group GmbH , which among other things planned and carried out the boxing events for Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko , negotiated the worldwide television contracts and was responsible for the overall marketing of the Klitschko brothers.

Bönte was voted Sports Manager of the Year 2011 by a jury from the trade journal Horizont . In 2017 he was awarded the German Boxing Award for best manager. Since November 2018, Bönte has also been working as the manager of the youth boxing Olympic champion Peter Kadiru , who competed in his first professional fight in March 2019.

From July 2014 to February 2018, Bönte was a member of the supervisory board of HSV Fußball AG .

In August 2019, Bönte founded the sports consulting company PYX Global Sports GmbH with the lawyer Heiko Hofstätter and the entrepreneur Jochen Rieger. The first athletes PYX signed included Christina Hammer , Albon Pervizaj, Peter Kadiru and Leon Bauer , among others .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.companyhouse.de/BM-Sport-Management-GmbH-Hamburg
  2. ↑ "Do you already know ..", Sport-Bild from June 23, 1993, p. 68.
  3. ↑ Six men are shaping the future of HSV on www.mopo.de from May 26, 2014, accessed on July 21, 2014
  4. ^ NDR: Jansen in the HSV supervisory board - Krall boss. Retrieved January 29, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Björn Jensen: The comeback of Bernd Bönte on the boxing stage. September 24, 2019, accessed on September 28, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Bönte, Bernd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bönte, Bernhard Fritz Peter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports journalist and manager
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1955