Carsten Hensel

Carsten Hensel (2017)

Carsten Hensel (born June 2, 1958 in Dortmund ) is a German sports manager .

life and career

The trained business administrator is married, has two children and lives in Dortmund- Huckarde . From 1984 he worked as a freelance journalist in the sports sector, later as press spokesman, event organizer and sports manager. Internationally, Carsten Hensel made a name for himself for the first time in the organizing committee of the 40th table tennis world championships , which took place in 1989 in Dortmund (Westfalenhallen) with great success. From 1990 to 2001 Hensel worked as a press spokesman for the city of Dortmund. His area of ​​responsibility was health, youth, school, sport (events) and social affairs.

chess

Carsten Hensel has been working for the Dortmund Chess Days since 1991. There he met the chess grandmasters Wladimir Kramnik (Russia) and Péter Lékó (Hungary).

From 1998 to 2009 he was the manager of Grand Master Peter Leko . In 2002 he won the Candidates' tournament and thus the right to challenge Vladimir Kramnik. Even before that, at the beginning of 2002, Hensel worked as a manager for Wladimir Kramnik, whom he also looked after professionally until 2009. In 2004 he realized the world championship fight between Kramnik and Leko in Brissago TI (Switzerland). Kramnik defended his title.

The World Cup match between Kramnik and Leko was an important step towards the reunification of the chess world, which had been divided since 1993. At that time, after a dispute with Kramnik's predecessor Garry Kasparov, there were two rival world championships: the world chess federation FIDE and the Professional Chess Association . Carsten Hensel managed world champion Kramnik in 2006, who defeated the FIDE champion Weselin Topalow in Elista, Russia, with 8.5: 7.5 and thus brought about the reunification.

In 2005 Carsten Hensel co-founded the agency Universal Event Promotion, which brought the World Chess Championship back to Germany ( Bonn ) in 2008 (after 74 years) .

literature

• Martin Breutigam : World Chess Championship 2004 - Kramnik vs Leko. Chessgate Verlag, Nettetal 2004, ISBN 3-935748-08-6 .
• Martin Breutigam: Geniuses in black and white - the world champions in portrait. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2016. ISBN 978-3-7307-0287-1 .
• André Schulz : The big book of the World Chess Championships. New Chess publishing house. Hamburg 2015. ISBN 978-9-0569-1637-4 .
• Carsten Hensel: Wladimir Kramnik - From the life of a chess genius. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2018. ISBN 978-3-7307-0389-2 .