Markus Gröchtemeier

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Markus Gröchtemeier (born January 1, 1970 in Braunschweig ) is a German historian and former basketball player .

career

Gröchtemeier went through the youth department of SG Braunschweig and was a member of the first Bundesliga team in the club's history in the 1988/89 season. The 1.98-meter-long winger was on the field in 26 first division games and scored an average of 1.3 points per encounter in the main round. After the Bundesliga relegation in the spring of 1989, he played with the SG again in the second division. In the 1990/91 season, Gröchtemeier succeeded in his last Braunschweiger game year with the team, the promotion to the top German division. In the same season he moved into the final of the DBB Cup with the second division team , in which they lost to Bayer Leverkusen. On the way to the final, they had defeated two Bundesliga clubs, Ludwigsburg and Hagen. In the 1991/92 season Gröchtemeier was a player in the second division HSG TU Magdeburg, the champion of the German Democratic Republic in 1988 and 1989. He then strengthened TK Hannover in the first and second Bundesliga and the second division BG Wolfenbüttel.

Gröchtemeier studied modern history and literature. He worked as a freelance writer and journalist and preferred to publish works on local history, including the books National Socialism in the Country - the Wolfenbüttel District in the years 1933 to 1945 (published in 2005), Exclusion, Robbery and Emigration - The Jewish Rosenbaum Family from Schöppenstedt (published 2006), He was employed in the press office of the Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg as well as in magazines, including Capital , newspapers, including the Braunschweiger Zeitung , and freelance work for companies such as Volkswagen AG and AutoVision GmbH .

In July 2009 he took up the post of press spokesman for the basketball Bundesliga club New Yorker Phantoms Braunschweig , the successor team to his home club, SG Braunschweig. He finished this job in 2012.

Gröchtemeier later worked for the Wolfenbüttel Museum. In 2018 he published the book Fahnenwechsel - National Socialism and British Occupation in Wolfenbüttel 1933-1948 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Henning Brand: Markus Gröchtemeier. Not a star, but a typical SG self-made from the first hour . In: Ute Berndt, Henning Brand, Ingo Hoffmann, Christoph Matthies (eds.): Dunke-Schön. 25 years of the 1st Bundesliga basketball team in Braunschweig . Klartext Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1505-3 , p. 12, 13 .
  2. ^ The team 88/89 . In: Ute Berndt, Henning Brand, Ingo Hoffmann, Christoph Matthies (eds.): Dunke-Schön. 25 years of the 1st Bundesliga basketball team in Braunschweig . Klartext Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1505-3 , p. 10 .
  3. ^ Association history - Freie Turnerschaft Braunschweig e. V. Accessed April 1, 2020 .
  4. ↑ https://www.braunschweiger-zeitung.de/sport/loewen/article150218248/Pokal-Erinnerungen-F let-2-Als-21-Jaehriger-gegen-die- Stars.html
  5. ↑ a b c Basketball Braunschweig: Ex-Bundesliga player as new press spokesman. Retrieved April 1, 2020 .
  6. ^ ARUG-ZDB: Markus Gröchtemeier: Exclusion, Robbery and Emigration - The Jewish Rosenbaum Family from Schöppenstedt. Retrieved April 1, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Basketball Braunschweig: New spokeswoman for the New York Phantoms. Retrieved April 1, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Authors. In: niemeyer-buch.de. Retrieved April 1, 2020 .
  9. ↑ “Changing the Flag” - The darkest chapters of the city under the microscope. Retrieved April 1, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Gröchtemeier, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig