Ulf Mehrens

Player information
Ulf Mehrens
Ulf Mehrens, 2013
birthday	5th July 1956
place of birth	Oldenburg , Germany
size	203 cm
position	Power forward
National team
1980	BR Germany	4 games

Ulf Mehrens (born July 5, 1956 in Oldenburg ) is chairman of the German Wheelchair Sports Association (DRS), a professional association of the German Disabled Sports Association , and a former national basketball player .

Life

Mehrens played basketball in the youth and men's area for the teams of the Oldenburg Gymnastics Federation , he passed his Abitur at the Oldenburg Hindenburg School . He went to Hamburg to study and played there from 1979 for the Hamburger Turnerbund from 1962 in the basketball league . In 1980 he played four full international matches for the German national basketball team.

On October 6, 2008, Mehrens received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany on ribbon from Federal President Horst Köhler for his extraordinary commitment to disabled sports.

In addition to his many years of activity as chairman of the wheelchair basketball department at national and international level, the former national player in the team of the German Basketball Federation was also deputy head of delegation at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens and the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing. He is also Vice President of the International Basketball Wheelchair Federation Europe.

Professionally, Mehrens is the head of public relations / sport at the professional association accident hospital in Hamburg .

Web links

More on the side of the Winter Paralympics 2006

Individual evidence

^ Klaus Kertscher: Former OTB basketball players in exposed positions . In: Oldenburger TB (Hrsg.): Mitteilungen . Oldenburg September 2014, p. 4 .
↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1979/pdf/19791217.pdf/ASV_HAB_19791217_HA_018.pdf
^ Hamburger Abendblatt- Hamburg: World Association is to move to Hamburg. November 24, 2015, accessed August 11, 2019 .
↑ Balance: Player. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
↑ Hamburger Abendblatt, October 8, 2008 (accessed September 7, 2009)

personal data
SURNAME	Mehrens, Ulf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sports official, chairman of the German Wheelchair Sports Association, basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH	5th July 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH	Oldenburg

[1] Klaus Kertscher: Former OTB basketball players in exposed positions . In: Oldenburger TB (Hrsg.): Mitteilungen . Oldenburg September 2014, p. 4 .

[2] ttps://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1979/pdf/19791217.pdf/ASV_HAB_19791217_HA_018.pdf

[3] Hamburger Abendblatt- Hamburg: World Association is to move to Hamburg. November 24, 2015, accessed August 11, 2019 .

[4] Balance: Player. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .

[5] Hamburger Abendblatt, October 8, 2008 (accessed September 7, 2009)