Hugo Murero

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Hugo Murero (born March 13, 1906 in Wiener Neustadt ; † January 30, 1968 ) was a German basketball coach and sports journalist .

career

From October 1, 1930 to September 30, 1939 he was employed in the Reichswehr as a physical education teacher, from June 1, 1938 he was a Hauptsturmführer in  the SS and worked in the office for physical exercise.

Murero came into contact with basketball in Rome in 1931 and integrated the game into lessons at the Army Sports School in Wünsdorf . As a traveling teacher, he was entrusted with the distribution of basketball in Germany in the mid-1930s, along with other sports teachers who had acquired knowledge of basketball (for example Theo Clausen ).

At the 1936 Summer Olympics he was the coach of the German team. In addition, he was a basketball consultant in the “Fachamt 4 Handball / Basketball” of the German Reich Association for physical exercise. From 1936 to 1942 he was the Reich coach for basketball.

From 1934 Murero worked at the Sender Berlin and from 1937 at the Reichsrundfunkgesellschaft (RRG) in Berlin. In 1938 he reported on the European tournament in Berlin in a first basketball radio report.

Murero was one of the people who tried to rebuild the sport of basketball after World War II . After the war, he worked as a journalist for the NWDR and was temporarily chairman of the works council.

After the division into West German and North German Broadcasting, he was the first sports director of the WDR, during his term of office the first broadcast of the program Sportschau fell in June 1961. In 1956 he was the spokesman for the program “Die Bunte Sportschau”. He remained WDR sports director until 1968.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/MURERO%2C%20HUGO_0002.pdf
  2. ↑ - "Brown past written down unadorned" . In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed on March 26, 2018]).
  3. ↑ a b c d https://www.basketball-bund.de/wp-content/uploads/Basketball-und-DBB-Geschichte.pdf
  4. ↑ GIESSEN 46ers | Chronicle - GIESSEN 46ers. Retrieved March 26, 2018 .
  5. ^ Christoph Büker: Olympic premiere . In: Deutscher Basketball Bund (Ed.): DBB-Journal 01/2008 . Hagen, S. 41 .
  6. ↑ http://www.dog-bewegt.de/fileadmin/images/Interaktiv/OF/OF_2-2007.pdf
  7. ↑ http://rundfunkundgeschichte.de/assets/RuG_04_1.pdf
  8. ↑ https://www.hans-bredow-institut.de/uploads/media/Artikel/cms/media/5080ae84bd9baf79345498b89ffb68befa660cb5.pdf
  9. ↑ http://rundfunkundgeschichte.de/assets/RuG_2011_1-2.pdf
  10. ^ Christian Gödecke: The first "Sportschau": "I had ice cold hands" . In: Spiegel Online . June 3, 2011 ( spiegel.de [accessed March 26, 2018]).
  11. ↑ RP ONLINE: 40 years of sports show: 'Mother' of all sports broadcasts is 40. Accessed on March 26, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Television: Congratulations everyone . In: FAZ.NET . June 7, 2001, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed March 26, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Murero, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball coach and sports journalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiener Neustadt
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1968