Oliver Braun
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| birthday | March 19, 1973 | |
| place of birth | Hanover, Germany | |
| size | 208 cm | |
| position | center | |
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1992–1993 TK Hannover 1993–1994 BG Stuttgart / Ludwigsburg 1994–1995 Alba Berlin 1995–1998 SG Braunschweig 1998–2000 Telekom Baskets Bonn 2000 Müller Verona 2000–2001 Brandt Hagen 2001 AO Dafni Athens 2003 TSV Quakenbrück 2003 SG Sechtem 2004–2006 TuS Erdgas Baskets Jena 2006–2007 BV Chemnitz 99  
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| 1994 & 1998 | Germany | 8 games |
| 1 As of August 13, 2011 | ||
Oliver Brown (* 19th March 1973 in Hannover , Lower Saxony ) is a German sports manager and former basketball - national team . Braun was in the ALBA Berlin squad when they celebrated the first European title win by a German club team in the 1995 Korać Cup . After the end of his playing career, Braun was from 2007 to 2014 sports director and managing director of the professional team New York Phantoms from Braunschweig in the top German basketball division (BBL). In 2020 he took up a second term in office in Braunschweig.
Life
Braun began his career at the Turn-Klubb in his hometown of Hanover, which was in the 2. BBL 1992/93 champions of the 2. Basketball Bundesliga Group North and was promoted to the top division. Braun left the club and moved to the Bundesliga season 1993/94 to southern Germany to the first division club BG Stuttgart / Ludwigsburg. After a season he went to the ambitious ALBA club in Berlin and completed his first two appearances in the German men's national team . Under the former national coach Svetislav Pešić , who celebrated the first title win with the men's national team at the European Championships in 1993, the Berliners also won the first international title win of a German club team in the 1995 Korać Cup .
Braun then moved and in 1995 went to first division promoted SG Braunschweig, for which he completed the following three seasons. During this time you could qualify twice for the play-offs for the German championship , in each of which you were eliminated in the first round. In the summer break of 1998 Braun completed another six appearances in the national team and then moved to league rivals Telekom Baskets from Bonn . In the final series of the BBL 1998/99 they were defeated by their former club Berlin only barely in five games, while in the following year they were clearly inferior to the new series champions in three games in the semi-final series.
For the 2000/01 season, Braun moved for the first time abroad to Italy to Müller Scaligera Basket from Verona , where the Hanoverian David Arigbabu had already been under contract for one season. However, after a deployment, Braun asked for the contract to be terminated and in December switched to Brandt Hagen, where the former Leverkusen master coach Dirk Bauermann had taken over as coach. The completely reorganized team was only able to secure relegation after a qualifying round. Braun went with trainer Bauermann to Athens in the Greek A1 Ethniki to AO Dafni. Bauermann was dismissed after four championship games, while Braun had suffered a serious foot injury after the third match day and this season was over for him. This injury also ended his second international engagement early and ensured that Braun paid more attention to his professional future. He started studying business administration in 2003.
At the beginning of 2003, Braun made his return to the ambitious second division TSV Quakenbrück , who wanted to reach the top division. After a season without defeat, the Artländer rose in 2003 to the top division. Braun now concentrated on academic training and advanced his studies. At the turn of the year 2003/04 he went to the second division and signed a contract with the Erdgas Baskets from Jena . With the Thuringians under coach Frank Menz , also active at ALBA in Berlin at the beginning of the nineties, he stayed for the next two and a half seasons and failed as one of the best German players in the 2nd BBL 2005/06 as second in the table, only narrowly on promotion to the top division . In 2007, Braun completed his studies in business administration , changed clubs again for professional reasons and joined league competitor BV Chemnitz in Saxony . The last season of the regionally staggered 2. Basketball Bundesliga 2006/07 was also Braun's last year as a player, in which he finished fifth with the Chemnitz team.
For the 2007/08 season, Braun was introduced as the sports director and managing director of his former club from Braunschweig, which played in the top division as New York Phantoms. Braun's fields of activity at the New York Phantoms included sports, marketing, public relations and advertising. Braunschweig's coach at that time was Emir Mutapčić . However, the work of the former Berlin coach did not show the desired success in Braunschweig in the form of play-offs. In 2009, for example, the expired coaching contract was not extended and Braun brought on Sebastian Machowski from the Polish league , who had also been in the ALBA squad in 1995 and was briefly active with Braun in Jena in 2004. With Machowski, the Braunschweiger club's first play-off participation in seven years succeeded straight away in 2010, in which the defending champion and the main round first EWE Baskets Oldenburg were thrown out of the competition in the first round . In the newly formed cup competition in 2011 a second place and in 2012 a fourth place. At the end of the 2011/12 season and the third play-off participation in a row Machowski left the club and moved to the Lower Saxony competitor from Oldenburg . Braun then signed the Greek coach Kostas Flevarakis for the Bundesliga season 2012/13 . Under Oliver Braun, the Bundesliga basketball team New Yorker Phantoms was twice named the best youth location by the Bundesliga. The two NBA players Dennis Schröder and Daniel Theis emerged from the youth concept sponsored by Braun . With the transfer of Dennis Schröder in the summer of 2013, the manager achieved a direct transfer to the NBA for the Atlanta Hawks for the first time in German basketball . The transfer fee after deducting legal fees was around 370,000 euros, which was a record in German basketball.
In his responsibility as Managing Director Marketing / Sales / Communication, a holistic project with Phantoms @ Future was introduced as a novelty in the Bundesliga , which should bring children and young people from four to 20 years closer to basketball and sport. The word and image language he designed led to the Phantoms developing into a visible brand. Through the expansion of the sponsorship concept designed by Braun, he doubled the number of partners and sponsors in sales for the New York Phantom.
After seven years as Braunschweig's managing director in the Bundesliga, Braun switched to Volkswagen AG in September 2014 in the area of sports communication. His area of responsibility included, among other things, the company's involvement in the Bundesliga and international cooperation with the group brands in the field of sports.
In July 2020 Braun returned as managing director and sports director to the Braunschweig Bundesliga club, which has now been called Basketball Löwen Braunschweig. Shortly after taking office, the long-standing cooperation between the professional team and SG Braunschweig was revived.
Web links
- Oliver Braun | New Yorker Phantoms Braunschweig - Profile: Managing Director and Sports Director
- Oliver Braun (BV TU Chemnitz 99) - player profile on the statistics pages of the basketball national leagues
- Games by Oliver Braun (8) - senior national team appearances according to a private database website recognized by the DBB
Individual evidence
- ↑ Legabasket: Oliver Braun. Lega Basket Serie A , accessed on June 3, 2012 (Italian, player profile with statistics from the 2000/01 season).
- ↑ The dream team comes with Michael Jordan. Schoenen-Dunk.de, January 29, 2003, accessed on June 3, 2012 (press release from Düsseldorf MAGICS).
- ^ Tom Prager: Oliver Braun in Braunschweig. Schoenen-Dunk.de, April 18, 2007, accessed on June 3, 2012 (interview with Braun on signing the contract as managing director).
- ↑ Ute Berndt: Oliver Braun . 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. 250-253 .
- ↑ Basketball Braunschweig: New managing director with a lot of experience: Oliver Braun returns. Retrieved July 8, 2020 .
- ↑ Basketball Braunschweig: Basketball Löwen cooperate with SG Junior Löwen. Retrieved July 25, 2020 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Braun, Oliver |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sports manager and former national basketball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 19, 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover , Germany |