Karl Adolf Scherer

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Karl Adolf Scherer (born August 29, 1929 in Bad Kreuznach , † November 4, 2008 in Erzhausen ) was a German sports journalist.

Scherer began his journalistic career in Bad Kreuznach. In 1958 he started at Sport-Informations-Dienst , where he held a managerial position until 1994. For decades he reported on the Olympic Games and a total of 39 IOC sessions . In 1988 he was awarded the Olympic silver medal .

From 1960 to 1972 Scherer was an author in the specialist journal Athletik . From 1972 to 1984 and then from 1988 to 1996 he acted as press officer for the German Wrestling Federation , from 1975 to 1984 and from 1988 to 1996 he wrote for the journal Der Ringer . In 1991 he was awarded the badge of honor with diamond from the FILA World Wrestling Association.

In addition to his journalistic activities, Scherer worked on numerous books and wrote some standard works. In 1970 he was an editor for heavy athletics and chess at the Lexicon Die Stars des Sport von AZ, published by Bodo Harenberg . He remained connected with Harenberg later, in the 1990s he wrote the sports history in numbers for Harenbergs Chronik-Verlag . In 1972 and 1976 Scherer was editor-in-chief of the official NOK Olympic books for Germany . The commemorative publication published under his direction in 1986 for the 100th anniversary of the German Swimming Association has remained one of the most important works on the history of swimming in Germany to this day.

Works (selection)

  • 75 Olympic years. Verlag pro Sport, Munich 1970
  • The order of men. The History of the International Olympic Committee. Limpert-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1974
  • 80 years of VfK Schifferstadt . Verlag Schifferstädter Tagblatt, Schifferstadt 1976
  • Sports stronghold: Leverkusen. Econ-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1979
  • 100 years of the German Swimming Association. A documentation , Busche-Verlagsgesellschaft, Munich 1986
  • 100 years of wrestling in Germany. Der Ringer publishing house, Niedernberg 1991
  • 100 years of the Olympic Games. Harenberg-Verlag, Dortmund 1995
  • Chronicle Handbook Sports History in Numbers. Chronik-Verlag, Gütersloh 1997

literature

  • Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes, Darmstadt 2005 published via Deutsche Leichtathletik Promotion- und Projektgesellschaft

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personal data
SURNAME Scherer, Karl Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports journalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Kreuznach
DATE OF DEATH November 4, 2008
Place of death Erzhausen