Jens Holtkötter

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Jens Holtkötter (* 1960 / 1961 ) is a former German basketball official .

Life

Holtkötter, who played basketball at Walddörfer SV and BC Johanneum Hamburg for 18 years until 1988 and was promoted to the 2nd basketball league with BCJ in 1979 and played there for a year, was a patron in the 1990s and early 2000s , Chairman and "doer" of the basketball club BCJ Hamburg . As a coach, he had celebrated successes in the girls and women division at Walddörfer SV from 1978 (including several Hamburg championship titles and German runner-up titles in youth and in 1987 promotion to the 2nd women's division).

During his tenure, BCJ first rose from the regional league to the 2nd Bundesliga and then in 1999 to the Basketball Bundesliga . After the club only separated from manager Carsten Rühl and his successor Axel Cadow in spring and autumn 2000 , Holtkötter temporarily carried out this activity in addition to his other duties. In 2001 he was relegated from the Bundesliga, bankruptcy proceedings were initiated against the BC Johanneum, and Holtkötter's companies Ballyhoo and Bits were also bankrupt. The leadership of the BCJ successor club BC Hamburg withdrew from Holtkötter. In 2002 the Hamburger Abendblatt called him “Hamburg's greatest basketball patron of all time” and a “conflict-shy basketball impresario”. According to the newspaper, Holtkötter pumped around 3.5 million euros into the team between 1994 and 2002. Holtkötter said in March 2002 that he wanted to prove to himself “that successful first division basketball is possible in Hamburg”. After the end of the Holtkötter era in top Hamburg basketball in the early summer of 2002, Die Tageszeitung drew the following conclusion: "No investors, instead an insolvent club and a bad reputation, resulting from numerous empty commitments."

Holtkötter was a co-partner of Günter Holtkötter GmbH , a company for office supplies and IT systems founded by his father . In 1989 he founded the advertising and marketing agency Ballyhoo , whose turnover in 1999, according to the Hamburger Morgenpost, was 35 million DM and which among other things worked for top Italian football teams. From 2011 to 2018 Holtkötter was managing director of the food company Dan-Deli GmbH , then of HFS Hanseatic Food Service GmbH .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ It began as a recreational sport. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. April 26, 1999, accessed August 26, 2019 .
  2. ↑ The maker. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. April 26, 1999, accessed August 26, 2019 .
  3. ↑ EW: BCJ Tigers keep their chances . April 29, 2001 ( welt.de [accessed August 24, 2019]).
  4. ↑ a b Mike Liem: "I want to be in the front line" . In: The daily newspaper: taz . March 9, 2002, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 32 ( taz.de [accessed on August 24, 2019]).
  5. ↑ a b Jens Holtkötter helped the BCJ Tigers to rise to the Bundesliga: Hamburg's Mr. Basketball. May 5, 1999, accessed on August 24, 2019 (German).
  6. ↑ About us. In: Basketball in Walddörfer SV. Retrieved September 17, 2019 .
  7. ↑ How it all started. In: walddoerfer-sv.de. Retrieved September 17, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Edgar Wieschendorf: Tigers are about to be kicked out of the Bundesliga . March 7, 2001 ( welt.de [accessed August 25, 2019]).
  9. ↑ Edgar Wieschendorf: BCJ Tigers finally find financiers for the rest of the season . February 24, 2002 ( welt.de [accessed August 24, 2019]).
  10. ^ Rainer Grünberg: Rise and Fall of Jens H. May 6, 2002, accessed on August 24, 2019 (German).
  11. ↑ Mike Liem: Tiger nosedive . In: The daily newspaper: taz . June 21, 2002, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 24 ( taz.de [accessed on August 24, 2019]).
  12. ^ Hamburger Abendblatt- Hamburg: Hamburg: Holtkötter threatens the end. March 20, 2002, accessed on August 26, 2019 (German).
  13. ↑ Jens Holtkötter, Hamburg - Managing Director of HFS Hanseatic Food Service GmbH. Retrieved August 24, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Holtkötter, Jens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball official
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century