Hans-Joachim Otto (basketball official)

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Hans-Joachim Otto (born May 16, 1928 in Chemnitz ; † July 6, 2011 in Berlin ) was a German basketball official. He was President of the German Basketball Association of the German Democratic Republic . In 2010 Otto was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the World Basketball Federation (FIBA) as the first German .

life and career

Otto played hockey and handball as a teenager. He studied social sciences and then became an engineer. After the Second World War he was involved in building up the anti-fascist youth movement in East Germany. Between 1953 and 1959 he was responsible for sports matters at the Free German Youth . In 1958 Otto became President of the German Basketball Association (DBV) of the GDR and remained in office until 1969. During his presidency, he won the bronze medal of the GDR women's national team at the 1966 European Championship and fourth place at the 1967 World Cup and 1968 European Championship. He was then DBV vice-president from 1969 to 1989 and as such played a key role in the association's integration into German basketball Federal Government (DBB) involved after reunification.

Between 1960 and 1984 Otto worked as treasurer of FIBA ​​and was a member of the central office of the world association. In 1994 he was awarded the FIBA ​​Order of Merit, and in 2010 he was the first German to be inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame .

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SURNAME Otto, Hans-Joachim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Otto, Hans Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball official
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 2011
Place of death Berlin