Thomas Schaarschmidt (sports official)

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Thomas Schaarschmidt (born November 18, 1975 ) is a German basketball official .

Life

Schaarschmidt, who comes from Dessau , came to basketball in October 1992 through a school league, but soon turned away from playing and, thanks to Gunther Schmidt's encouragement, devoted himself to basketball officials. He was a founding member of BV Dessau 93 in 1993 and was a member of the association's board for a decade. From 2009 he joined the successor club BC Anhalt Dessau and later took over the office of chairman.

In 2002 Schaarschmidt also worked for the Basketball Association of Saxony-Anhalt, initially as a press attendant and then as deputy chairman. In 2012 he was elected to the office of chairman of the association. In January 2020, he also became Deputy Chairman of the Thuringian Basketball Association .

In his main job, he has been managing director of the Leipzig Ralf Rangnick Foundation since the beginning of 2019 , after previously working as a journalist.

Footnotes

1. ↑ DBB-Intern: Birthdays. In: DBB-Journal, No. 41, 10/2014. German Basketball Association, accessed on March 29, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Christoph Karpe: With a trick to honor. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. December 22, 2018, p. 17.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Thomas Schaarschmidt. BVSA Basketball Association Saxony-Anhalt, accessed on March 29, 2019 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Schaarschmidt new head of the association. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. Retrieved March 29, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Together for Central Germany. In: Thuringian Basketball Association. Retrieved on February 19, 2020 (German). 
6. ↑ "Schaarschmidt works full-time as managing director of the Ralf Rangnick Foundation in Leipzig." The lot of a small sport: "We need everyone who loves basketball in Saxony-Anhalt". In: mdr.de. Retrieved March 29, 2019 .