Dietrich Keller

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Basketball player
Dietrich Keller
Player information
Nickname Didi
birthday October 18, 1943
place of birth Mainz , Germany
size 218 cm
position center
Clubs as active
0000–1971 USC Mainz
1971–1972 TuS 04 Leverkusen
1972–1977 USC Heidelberg
National team
1967-1973 BR Germany 98 games

Dietrich "Didi" Keller (born October 18, 1943 in Mainz ) is a former German basketball player and Olympic participant.

Dietrich Keller rose to the basketball league with USC Mainz in 1968 and reached the 1971 cup final with the Mainz team, among other things. This was not played until October 1971, when Keller was already playing for the final opponent TuS 04 Leverkusen . Leverkusen had already won the championship and cup double in 1970 and 1971 . In the 1971/1972 season, Leverkusen dominated the league again, also because they were by far the strongest team under the basket with the two centers Norbert Thimm and Keller, with Keller missing towards the end of the season due to injury problems. Leverkusen won the championship title, under head coach Günter Hagedorn , without a single defeat in the league and in the playoff games, but, unlike in previous years, retired early in the cup. After the end of the season, Keller moved to USC Heidelberg and won the German championship again after seven years with the Heidelberg team. In 1977, USC Heidelberg achieved the double in Keller's last first division season.

After Keller made his debut in the German national team in 1967 , he was nominated in October 1968 by the Federal Coaching Council of the German Basketball Federation, chaired by Anton Kartak , at that time sports warden of the DBB, for the fifty-strong '1972 Olympic squad ' in the ' Kartak list '. In 1969 he was under national coach Miloslav Kříž in the squad in the qualifying round for the 1969 European Basketball Championship . In 1971, Keller finished ninth with the DBB national team, under national coach Theodor Schober, at the European Championships in his own country. In 1972, the German basketball players reached twelfth place at the Olympic Games in Munich. Dietrich Keller, then 28 years old, played four games in the Olympic basketball tournament in 1972, scoring 14 points in 8 fouls whistled against him.

After the end of his time as a basketball player in the Bundesliga, Dietrich Keller remained active in sports, including as a maxi basketball player for his club USC Heidelberg. With his basketball comrades from the group of former league players, Keller has always regularly participated in the DBB age group tournaments of the Federal Best Basketball Games for recreational players from the age of forty-fifth and has always fought very successfully for the trophies donated by the DBB.

literature

  • National Olympic Committee for Germany: Munich. Kiel. 1972. The Olympic team of the Federal Republic of Germany . Frankfurt am Main 1972
  • Dino Reisner: 40 years of the Basketball Bundesliga . Sutton-Verlag Erfurt 2006 ISBN 978-3-86680-014-4 (especially short portrait on page 101)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Die Zeit 5/1977: Too small at 186 cm
  2. ↑ Reisner: 40 Years of the Bundesliga, page 26
  3. ^ Letter from Anton Kartak, Vice President of the German Basketball Federation and Chairman of the National Coaching Council, on October 10, 1968, to the fifty basketball players nominated for the '1972 Olympic Squad'.
  4. ^ West Germany Basketball at the 1972 Munich Summer Games Website Olympics at Sports Reference. Retrieved May 7, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Keller, Dietrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Keller, Didi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz