Paul G. Pätzel

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Paul Georg Pätzel (born November 10,  1916 - † November 5, 2009 ) was a German sports organizer , sports journalist and basketball official .

Life

As an active athlete, Pätzel, who lived in Anklam and Greifswald before he came to Bremerhaven , did athletics , basketball , table tennis and bowling . He achieved his greatest successes in athletics; in this sport he was several times national and gaume champions. Pätzel's best time over 100 meters was 10.8 seconds, in the high jump his best time was 1.82 meters. He also competed in pentathlon and decathlon competitions. In bowling, he was German runner-up in the three-lane fight.

Pätzel made a name for himself as the organizer of gymnastics and athletics festivals (including the Northwest German Athletics Championships in 1946) and fun runs, partly on behalf of the German Olympic Society (DOG). He was co-founder and then co-organizer of the international basketball tournament " Gold Cup of the City of Bremerhaven ", which the US armed forces fought in Bremerhaven from 1964 until 1983.

After his time as a marine (rank: chief machinist) Pätzel worked as a sports reporter. From 1947 to 1976 he headed the sports department of the Nordsee-Zeitung . As a book author, he brought out, among other things, “Where the Weser flows” in 1959, an illustrated book about the city of Bremerhaven. In 1965 another illustrated book was published with “Bremerhaven: Freizeit, Spiel, Sport”. In 1982 he published a treatise on basketball history in the magazine " Olympic Fire " under the title "The Triumphal Procession of Basketball".

Pätzel was one of the founders of 1. BC Bremerhaven in 1955, he was also one of the initiators of the founding of the Weser Boxring Bremerhaven and the Kreissportbund Bremerhaven. In October 1955 he was elected first chairman at the founding meeting of the Bremen Basketball Association . For the German Basketball Association (DBB) Pätzel was press officer and from 1961 chief editor of the magazine "Basketball", the official organ of the German Basketball Association. He held this office until September 1981. In 1963 he was appointed vice president of the board of the German Basketball Federation. At the DBB Bundestag in 1965 he suggested the introduction of German senior basketball championships in competition classes II (from 32 years) and III (from 40 years), Pätzel's proposal was accepted by the delegates and the introduction of the competitions was decided. He remained DBB Vice President until 1968.

In 2010 the athletics event "Paul-G-Pätzel-Sportfest" was held for the first time in Bremerhaven.

Awards and honors

  • Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (awarded 1997)
  • Golden badge of honor of the German Sports Confederation
  • Golden badge of honor of the German Basketball Federation
  • Golden badge of honor of the German Athletics Association
  • Golden city plaque of the city of Bremerhaven
  • Golden badge of honor of the German Olympic Society
  • Golden badge of honor of the Weser Boxring Bremerhaven
  • Golden badge of honor of 1st BC Bremerhaven
  • Golden badge of honor of the OSC Bremerhaven
  • Honorary membership of the Bremen Basketball Association

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Pätzel Paul" - books used, buy second-hand and new. Retrieved December 15, 2018 .
  2. ^ Paul G. Paetzel: The triumphant advance of basketball . In: Olympic fire . tape 32 , no. 4 , 1982, ISSN  0471-5640 , pp. 16-18 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed December 15, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Nordsee Stadion - Leichtathletik-Datenbank.DE. Retrieved December 15, 2018 .
  4. ^ Honor list - Bremen Basketball Association eV (BBV). Retrieved December 15, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Pätzel, Paul G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pätzel, Paul Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports journalist, sports organizer, basketball official
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1916
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 2009