Katja Kraus

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Katja Kraus at the Leipzig Book Fair 2015

Katja Kraus (born November 23, 1970 in Offenbach am Main ) is a former German soccer player and soccer official.

Career as a soccer player

Kraus played from 1986 to 1998 as a goalkeeper for FSV Frankfurt and played 220 games in the Bundesliga . She was three times German champion (1986, 1995, 1998) and four times German cup winner (1990, 1992, 1995, 1996).

Between 1995 and 1997 she was used in seven games of the German national team. She became vice-world champion and European champion in 1995 and was a substitute for the 1996 Olympic Games .

Professional career

Kraus studied German and Politics in Frankfurt am Main from 1990 to 1996 . From 1997 to 1998 she worked in the PR department of Adidas and from 1998 to 2003 as press spokeswoman for Eintracht Frankfurt . On March 16, 2003, she became a member of the board of directors for marketing and communication at Hamburger SV . On December 16, 2007, her contract was prematurely extended to December 31, 2011. From February 2010 she was the second chairwoman of Hamburger SV. On March 7, 2011, the Supervisory Board decided not to extend her contract. On March 16, 2011, the employment contract was terminated by mutual agreement.

Then she began to write non-fiction as a writer. In 2013 the book Macht - stories of success and failure was published and in 2015 friendship - stories of closeness and distance .

Since July 2013 she has been managing partner of the sports marketing agency Jung von Matt / sports and since May 2014 a member of the Adidas supervisory board.

Kraus is a member of the German Academy for Football Culture . From 2013 to 2016 she supported the award of the Football Book of the Year of the German Football Culture Prize as a member of the jury .

Private

Kraus is in a relationship with the former State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Defense , Katrin Suder . At the beginning of March 2017, she and Suder registered a civil partnership. You have three children.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hamburger SV expands the board - Katja Kraus is responsible for marketing and communication presseportal.de, February 11, 2003
  2. ↑ Hamburger SV extends the contracts of Bernd Hoffmann and Katja Kraus ahead of schedule presseportal.de, December 16, 2007
  3. ^ Uprising against the misunderstood fr-online.de, March 7, 2011
  4. ↑ Hoffmann and Kraus are out kicker.de, March 16, 2011
  5. ↑ Katja Kraus: From goalkeeper to successful author In: Hamburger Abendblatt , February 18, 2015, accessed on February 16, 2017.
  6. ^ Power - stories of success and failure , Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-038504-8 .
  7. ↑ Friendship - Stories of closeness and distance . Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2015, ISBN 978-3-10-002196-0 .
  8. ↑ Jung von Matt / sports starts with Katja Kraus, Christoph Metzelder and Raphael Brinkert ( Memento from July 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), jvm.com .
  9. ↑ Andre Tauber: Under female control In: Die WELT , July 4, 2014, accessed on February 16, 2017.
  10. ↑ https://www.fussball-kultur.org/adresse/address/katja-kraus
  11. ^ Katja Kraus , German Academy for Football Culture
  12. ↑ Von der Leyen's "best woman". Ex-HSV manager marries girlfriend. In: Bild.de . March 29, 2017. Retrieved March 30, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Kraus, Katja
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kraus, Kati (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and official
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenbach am Main