Jochen Kühl

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Jochen Kühl (born 1943 in Magdeburg ) is a former youth national basketball player of the GDR and holder of the Federal Cross of Merit .

Life

At 18, he fled 14 days before the construction of the Wall in the West, where he worked in Göttingen , Freiburg and Hamburg Jura studied.

He was legal advisor at the German Sports Confederation and from 1984 to 1992 also managing director of this association.

In Langen near Frankfurt in Hesse , he headed the basketball department of TV Langen from 1975 to 2008 , where he also worked as a youth coach. In Langen he founded the part-time basketball boarding school, which produced some important basketball players. National players Johannes Herber, Denis Wucherer, Robin Benzing, Pascal Roller, Tim Nees, Philipp Neumann, Patrick Heckmann, Malik Müller, Svenja Greunke, Stephanie Wagner, Pia Dietrich and Nelli Dietrich were trained at BTI Langen.

Jochen Kühl is co-founder of the Sports Medicine Institute in Frankfurt , of which he has been President since 1997. He is also a co-founder of the sports sponsoring association in Langen, which was founded in 2004. He heads the Langen movement initiative in this association, which aims to encourage children to move more.

Kühl has been a member of the SPD parliamentary group of the Langen city council since 2006 and is a member of the sports commission. He was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon on October 6, 2010 in Wiesbaden.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Sven Labenz: Keep your back free for young German talents. In: bti-langen.de. November 2, 2013, accessed September 2, 2019 .