Horst Neuhof

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Horst Neuhof (born September 13, 1929 - January 21, 2020 ) was a German basketball coach .

Life

Neuhof studied from 1951 at the German University for Physical Culture in Leipzig , which had only started its training in the previous year. In 1954 he completed his studies at the DHfK. From 1954 Neuhof played basketball in the team of the Magdeburg Engineering School for Civil Engineering and from 1957 also worked as a junior trainer, and he also took on other functions, including the preparation and implementation of the press festival and the indoor sports festival for basketball. At the end of the 1950s, Neuhof took on the role of coach in the women's basketball team of the German Democratic Republic , and from 1975 to 1986 he was an assistant coach on the staff of the GDR men's national team.

As a club coach, he led the team of the HSG TU Magdeburg in 1973 in the upper league, the top division of the GDR. In the mid-1980s, the Magdeburgers he looked after advanced into the top league group. In 1988 the team finally became East German champions. Neuhof had resigned from his coaching position in 1986 and handed it over to Karl-Heinz Gärtner , but as a long-time coach of the Magdeburg team had laid the foundation for the success that was repeated in 1989. Among his protégés were the GDR national players Peter Bogel , Achim Grossmann and Fred Thieme . Between 1964 and 2008, Neuhof also supervised the selection of students at the TU Magdeburg and the later Otto von Guericke University . In 1990 he was elected to the board of the GDR basketball association DBV as Vice President for Public Relations a few weeks before GDR basketball was transferred to the sports system in the FRG.

Neuhof trained youth teams at Magdeburg SV 90 from 1990. At the BBC Magdeburg he received an honorary membership, in GDR times he was named " Honored Master of Sports ". Neuhof was referred to as the "Magdeburg Basketball Nestor" and the "forefather of Magdeburg basketball".

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The BVSA mourns Horst Neuhof - BVSA Basketball Association Saxony-Anhalt. Retrieved February 8, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b BBC Magdeburg eV Retrieved on July 28, 2019 .
  3. ↑ BBC Magdeburg eV Accessed on July 28, 2019 .
  4. ^ Volksstimme Magdeburg: In 1988 TU succeeded in changing the guard. Retrieved July 28, 2019 .
  5. ↑ - transition DBV / DBB. Retrieved August 3, 2019 .
  6. ↑ http://www.schoenen-dunk.de/news_a70912_Regionalliga_Drei-Viertel-teuer-verkauf.htm
  7. ↑ Over 50 men: DM 2010 in Magdeburg. German Basketball Association, accessed on July 28, 2019 .
  8. ↑ The BVSA mourns Lutz Gerecke - BVSA Basketball Association Saxony-Anhalt. Retrieved July 28, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Neuhof, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball coach
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1929
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 2020