Otto Reintjes

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Otto Reintjes (born February 20, 1950 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a former German basketball player and official. He played three international matches for Germany and was later manager of TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen and managing director of the basketball league .

career

Reintjes was born in Frankfurt am Main and grew up in Stuttgart . He completed an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk at Siemens , and later studied social science .

In 1968 he took part in the European Junior Championships in Spain with the German national team. Reintjes became German champions with Bayer Leverkusen in 1972 and 1976 and won the DBB cup three times (1972, 1974, 1976) . In the early 1970s, he was used in three international A matches.

After his playing career, Reintjes made the A coaching license and worked as a youth coach in Leverkusen (among other things, he promoted the later NBA star Detlef Schrempf ). From 1980 he worked as manager of Leverkusen's Bundesliga team, the German championship titles in 1985 and 1986 as well as the series with seven championship titles in a row (1991 to 1996) fall during his term of office. In the 1984/85 season he acted as interim coach of the Bundesliga team. Reintjes worked full-time as a manager and was a pioneer of German basketball in terms of professionalization .

From 1999 he was managing director of the basketball league and was involved, among other things, in the conclusion of the league's contract with the Kirch Group , which regulated game broadcasts and programs on DSF and SAT.1 . Towards the end of his term of office, serious allegations were made against Reintjes: “ More and more BBL commissioner Otto Reintjes is becoming the focus of criticism . The result of his four-year career is not very successful: A league sponsor as the successor to the retired fashion label s.Oliver was not found. The TV partner DSF is extremely dissatisfied with the ratings, Sat. 1 withdrew a year ago. Reintjes is now being accused of having given the license to clubs like Hagen, Würzburg or the MBC too lightly before the start of the season, ”wrote Die Welt am Sonntag on March 21, 2004. In an article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , he defended himself and explained : "Sole ruler, King of the League, that's nonsense. The clubs are the legislature. And they have a wide variety of interests that I have to reconcile. ” At the end of March 2005, he resigned as managing director of the Bundesliga. He then returned to Bayer Leverkusen and became head of the basketball department and was instrumental in the move of the Leverkusen Bundesliga team to Düsseldorf in 2008.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Schön-Dunk: SD | News | BBL | With heart and brain - a portrait of Otto Reintjes. In: www.schoenen-dunk.de. Retrieved January 8, 2017 .
  2. ^ Otto Reintjes profile, European Championship for Junior Men 1968 | FIBA.COM . In: FIBA.COM . ( fiba.com [accessed January 8, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Hans-Joachim Mahr: http://mahr.sb-vision.de/dbb/html/herren/player/spielespieler.aspx?spnr=207. In: mahr.sb-vision.de. Retrieved January 8, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Sport1.de: SPORT1 column "Wolles Welt" by Wolfgang Kleine about the NBA career of Detlef Schrempf . In: Sport1.de . ( sport1.de [accessed on January 8, 2017]).
  5. ↑ Andreas Born, http://www.leverkusen.com/born : Leverkusen: Personnel changes in the basketball department (published on: April 13, 2005). In: www.leverkusen.com. Retrieved January 8, 2017 .
  6. ↑ a b Once to the sun and now back again: - WORLD. In: THE WORLD. Retrieved January 8, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Basketball threatens to collapse: - WORLD. In: THE WORLD. Retrieved January 8, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Anno Hecker: Basketball Bundesliga: League manager: "I'm not sticking to my chair" . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 31, 2004, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed January 8, 2017]).
  9. ↑ Nordwest-Zeitung: BASKETBALL: Otto Reintjes only disappears from the stage for a short time . In: NWZonline . ( nwzonline.de [accessed on January 8, 2017]).
  10. ↑ RP ONLINE: Basketball: 'Something has to happen'. In: RP ONLINE. Retrieved January 8, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Reintjes, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball player and basketball official
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main