Gerd Krämer (sports journalist)

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Gerd Krämer (born November 19, 1920 in Stuttgart ; † November 7, 2010 there ) was a German sports journalist.

Life

Krämer attended the Reform Realgymnasium Stuttgart, where he passed the Abitur . After working and military service as well as being a prisoner of war in the UK, he began his career at Radio Stuttgart, the forerunner of the SDR . It broadcast the hope speech of the then American Foreign Minister James F. Byrnes on September 6, 1946. Before that, in 1945 he had broadcast the first live broadcast of a football match between VfB Stuttgart and Fürth on the radio after the war .

In 1950 he was a radio reporter for the boxing match between Joe Louis and Ezzard Charles . From 1963 he was a presenter at ZDF , where he was one of the first presenters of the program Current Sports Studio and broadcast reports for the Sport-Spiegel . He also reported on the Olympic Games, World and European Championships.

Publications

  • In the dress of the eleven best. History and stories of the German national soccer team. Bassermann, Munich 1961.
  • Fame knows no mercy. Novel. Pabel, Rastatt / Baden 1961.
  • On days when it was the final. 60 years of the German football championship. Limpert, Frankfurt a. M. 1963.
  • [Introduction in:] Oskar Wark : The foals 11. Borussia Mönchengladbach, German champion 1970. Osang-Verlag, Bad Honnef, 1970.
  • How far is Olympia from us. Fromm, Osnabrück 1971.
  • [Reproduction of original reports] on: World Cup memories. 1954-1970. Highlights of the soccer world championships. Badische Anilin- & Soda-Fabrik, [Ludwigshafen] 1974.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. XII. Edition of Degeners who is it ?, Berlin 1955, p. 635.
personal data
SURNAME Kramer, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports journalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 2010
Place of death Stuttgart