Siegfried Reiner

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Siegfried Reiner (born July 10,  1909 in Silesia as Siegfried Reischieß ; † December 1982 ) was a German basketball player and official.

career

Reiner (at that time still under the surname Reischieß) was a student in Breslau and a member of VfB Breslau . In 1935 he began playing basketball, and in August of the same year he took part in the Academic World Games in Budapest as the team leader of a German basketball student group consisting of "retrained" handball players .

At the 1936 Summer Olympics he was part of the German national basketball team and was used in two tournament games. In the course of a state structuring of basketball in Germany, he became game manager for northeast Germany in 1936 and was therefore subordinate to the specialist department 4 handball / basketball of the German Reich Association for physical exercises .

After the Second World War, he was one of the people who started organizing basketball again in 1946 - now under the surname Reiner. Reiner now lived in Munich and worked as a teacher. He was one of the founders of the "Society for the Promotion of Basketball Games in Germany", which was launched on November 16, 1947 in Darmstadt and was the forerunner of the German Basketball Federation (DBB) formed in 1949 . Reiner became the first chairman of the newly founded association in 1949 and remained in office until 1953.

He was awarded the Golden Badge of Honor by the DBB and the Bavarian Basketball Association, and in 1976 Reiner was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.basketballkreis-hagen.de.dd10112.kasserver.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Geschichte_over-2008.pdf
  2. ↑ a b c https://www.basketball-bund.de/wp-content/uploads/Basketball-und-DBB-Geschichte.pdf
  3. ^ Christoph Büker: Olympic premiere . In: Deutscher Basketball Bund (Ed.): DBB-Journal 01/2008 . Hagen, S. 41 .
  4. ↑ a b c Dr. Siegfried Reiner «German Basketball Association. Retrieved March 27, 2018 .
  5. ↑ About us «German Basketball Association. Retrieved March 27, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Reiner, Siegfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reischiess, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball player and official
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Silesia
DATE OF DEATH December 1982