Friedebert Becker

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Friedebert Becker (born June 17, 1907 in Cologne ; † September 6, 1984 ) was a German journalist . He was u. a. Publisher and editor-in-chief of Sport (later Sport-Magazin ) and Kicker (both merged in 1968 to form kicker-sportmagazin ).

Life

After attending the Reform-Realgymnasium in Düsseldorf , Becker studied at the University of Cologne and Charles University in Prague and obtained a doctorate in philosophy. He was editor of news agencies and worked from 1929 to 1930 a. a. for the Berliner Tageblatt as a foreign correspondent in Prague . Then Becker worked as an editor at Ullstein Verlag from 1930 to 1933 . In the following years he worked as a sports editor for football and table football , with the latter also as editor-in-chief. Becker later became a freelance sports journalist, from 1942 onwards he mainly worked abroad. In Italy he lived in the care of a resistance fighter, since a police report in Germany no longer seemed advisable.

After the Second World War , Becker initially worked as a political editor and head of the Nürnberger Nachrichten service . He became a license holder of the Olympia Verlag and published the new Sport magazine ( renamed Sport-Magazin in 1948 because of a Zurich sports newspaper of the same name ), where he also took over the editor-in-chief together with the former national player of the Fürth game association, Hans Fiederer . In 1951 Becker left the publishing house and re-founded Kicker at Th. Martens & Co. in Munich , where he again acted as publisher until 1966. Becker also published a number of books on the World Cup and the European Cup .

Honors

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary in Kicker-Sportmagazin from September 10, 1984.
  2. ↑ Bernd-M. Beyer: The man who brought football to Germany: the life of Walther Bensemann. A biographical novel. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 978-3-89533-408-5 , p. 462.
  3. ↑ Obituary notice in Die Welt from 8./9. September 1984.
personal data
SURNAME Becker, Friedebert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports journalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1984