Herbert May

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Herbert May (born January 9, 1926 ; † May 10, 2012 ) was a German basketball official and referee . He was one of the basketball pioneers in the city of Berlin .

career

In the summer of 1949, on the initiative of Herbert May, the Berlin Basketball Association was brought into being. This happened before the German Basketball Federation (DBB) was founded. May's private apartment served as the first office of the Berlin Association and from 1950 also as the office of the DBB. May was managing director of both associations during this time. In October 1949 May became head of the Berlin Basketball Association, and in 1953 May's apartment was also the place for talks between the chairman of the German Basketball Federation, Gerhard Nacke-Erich, and Günther Heinze , the president of the GDR's basketball section. Erich-Nacke and Heinze negotiated there about a joint game operation.

In May 1954 May, who had been a member of the German Olympic Society from 1951 , became secretary of the German Basketball Federation for the first time; from 1957 to 1962 he was a federal referee on the DBB board. May was appointed as an international referee and was later appointed honorary referee for FIBA  . May held numerous offices in the Berlin Basketball Association, but he never became chairman. Until 1983 he was the managing director of the Berlin Association. In 1974 he was awarded the Golden Badge of Honor of the German Basketball Association. At the club level, May, who worked in the insurance industry until 1988, was managing director of DTV Charlottenburg for a long time ; After leaving the Berlin Association, he was brought in 1983 by DTV President Siegfried Dupuis to join the Bundesliga club at the time, where May took over the management of the national game operations. Until 1996 he was a member of the board of the sports association in Charlottenburg. In 2008 May was awarded the citizen's medal for the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b DOG BERLIN is sad. (PDF) In: FASTER • HIGHER • FURTHER - THE INFORMATION LETTER OF THE GERMAN OLYMPIC GESELLSCHAFT LANDESVERBAND BERLIN EV . Accessed on December 13, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Berliner Basketball-Verband (Ed.): Berliner Basketball-Verband 1949-1999 . S. 12 .
  3. ↑ a b c DBB mourns Herbert May. German Basketball Federation, accessed on December 13, 2018 .
  4. ^ Awarding of 14 citizens' medals on District Day on October 19, 2008. March 16, 2016, accessed December 13, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME May, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball official and referee
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1926
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 2012