Horst Eckert (sports journalist)
Horst Eckert (born December 12, 1932 in Augsburg ; † December 28, 2014 there ) was a German sports journalist , author in the field of sports history, sports manager and ice hockey official .
Life
Eckert spent his childhood and youth in Augsburg, Adlershorst (today Orłowo in Polish, a district of Gdynia / Gdingen near Gdańsk / Danzig) and in Oberhof (Thuringia). At first he was an active ice hockey, ski and football athlete, earned his living, among other things, as an emcee in TV and radio show business under the stage name Charlie Eckert. Together with the entrepreneur Max Gutmann , he founded the Augsburg celebrity soccer team " Datschiburger Kickers " in 1965 and organized their charity games.
In 1968 he became manager and managing director of the Augsburger Eislaufverein (AEV, now Augsburger Panther ), which at that time had just been promoted to the first Bundesliga. In 1973 he brought the “ Ice Hockey Magazine ” onto the sports magazine market and for many years acted as its editor-in-chief and chief reporter at numerous major sporting competitions.
In 1976 he organized a boxing exhibition match between Muhammad Ali and Karl Mildenberger in the Augsburg sports hall , then he headed the training camp Muhammad Alis before his victorious fight for the heavyweight world championship against the Englishman Richard Dunn on May 24, 1976 in Munich.
In 1987 he became head of the public relations department at the German Ice Hockey Federation (DEB). In accordance with an order from the then DEB President Otto Wanner, he began planning an ice hockey museum, which opened in 1988. In 1991 he stopped working for DEB, was active again as a journalist (including as a foreign expert for the specialist magazine Ice Hockey News ) and published several books on the history of ice hockey. He was the author and editor of the yearbook of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) and was honored with the IIHF gold medal for his sport journalism. Due to a suggestion of the IIHF Director Roman Neumayer In 1999, Eckert the association "Hockey Museum eV", which the also "Hall of Fame Germany" called Hockey Museum operates, and became its president.
Horst Eckert died on December 28, 2014 in his hometown Augsburg after a short serious illness.
Web links
- Literature by and about Horst Eckert in the catalog of the German National Library
- Portrait of Horst Eckert ( Memento from December 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Journalist icon Horst Eckert has passed away , accessed on January 7, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eckert, Horst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sports journalist and official |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 12, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | augsburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 28, 2014 |
| Place of death | augsburg |