Holger Schück
Holger Schück (born June 29, 1950 in Kiel , † April 14, 2009 in Berlin ) was a German sports journalist and book author . He was considered a specialist in sports politics, doping issues and boxing .
Life
After completing his school education, Schück started out as a civil servant in his hometown of Kiel. In it he made it to the rank of city inspector. In the late 1970s he left the Kiel city administration and began working as a journalist for the “ Kieler Nachrichten ”. In 1982 he moved to West Berlin to accept an employment contract in the sports department of the tabloid daily newspaper " BZ ". After three months at the "BZ", Schück switched to the Sports Information Service (sid) in 1983 . In the Constanze press building on Kurfürstenstrasse in Berlin, sid co-partner Willi Ph. Knecht was looking for a deputy head of sid's newly created West Berlin branch. Schück accepted this post and played a key role in building up the editorial team over the following years. In 1989 Knecht withdrew from the current editorial business and Schück took over the management, which he held until he left sid in 1996.
From around 1990 Schück continued to work as an author for the press service of the German Sports Confederation and later the German Olympic Sports Confederation . After leaving the sid in 1996, Schück worked as a freelance journalist and author for, among others, Deutschlandfunk , DeutschlandRadio Kultur , the television station Premiere, the Tagesspiegel and the German press agency . Schück also created the accompanying and program booklets for amateur and professional boxing matches and worked as a PR consultant on a project basis.
On April 13, 2009, Schück suddenly fell ill and was brought to Benjamin Franklin University Hospital in an ambulance late in the evening after a home examination by an on-call doctor . Treatment was not carried out there due to insufficient intensive care capacities, whereupon Schück was driven on to the Westend Clinic . Schück died there in the early morning hours of April 14, 2009.
Schück was married to the sports scientist Kerstin Kirsch since 2004 .
Journalistic activity
In 1999, Schück and his colleague Hans-Joachim Seppelt published the book “Anklage: Kinderdoping” (Tenea Verlag, ISBN 978-3-932274-16-9 ), which deals critically with the doping legacy of GDR sport . In January 2009, the book "Kraftmaschine Parlament", which the SPD politician and chairman of the sports committee of the German Bundestag, Peter Danckert , wrote together with Schück , came onto the market .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nice, Holger |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sports journalist and book author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 29, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kiel |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 14, 2009 |
| Place of death | Berlin |