Ulrich Everling (basketball player)

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Ulrich Everling (born November 18, 1932 in Braunschweig ; † April 14, 2018 ) was a German basketball player and sports journalist.

career

Everling played athletics, swimming, handball, tennis and basketball. In 1950 he was Lower Saxony's youth champion in the long jump.

From 1951 Everling played basketball at Post-SV Braunschweig and became the first national basketball player from the city of Braunschweig. Later he was chairman of the basketball department of Eintracht Braunschweig .

In 1976 he was awarded the Golden Badge of Honor by the Lower Saxony Basketball Association. In 1999 he won bronze with the German national team at the World Seniors Championships in Montevideo .

In 2012 he was made an honorary member of the Braunschweig City Sports Association, for which he worked from 1951 as press officer and from 1977 as advisor for press and public relations.

Professionally, he worked as a sports journalist and reported in particular on the sports of basketball, handball, tennis and athletics. For more than four decades he was a member of the Lower Saxony Sports Press Association and was awarded the Golden Badge of Honor of the Association of German Sports Journalists. In 1995, together with Kurt Hoffmeister, he published the book “50 Years of Braunschweig City Sports Federation. From the rubble field to the tartan track. The Braunschweig Sports History after World War II ”.

For the CDU , Everling sat on the sports committee of the city of Braunschweig from 1976 to 2016, except for a short break. In 2005 he was awarded the Braunschweig Sports Medal.

"Braunschweiger Sport has lost a face", wrote the Braunschweiger Zeitung , for which he had worked as a reporter for a long time, in April 2018 on the occasion of Everlings death.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Kurt Hoffmeister: Time travel through Braunschweig's sports history: 180 years of gymnastics and sports in Braunschweig . BoD, 2010, ISBN 3-8391-0712-1 , p. 91 .
  2. ^ A b Braunschweiger Zeitung, Braunschweig, Germany: Ulrich Everling has died . ( braunschweiger-zeitung.de [accessed on September 2, 2018]).
  3. ↑ a b https://www.nbv-basketball.de/213_News_Langansicht.php?IDbaustein=1923&ursprung=/index.php&anker=kurztext_161_baussteine_3_1923. Retrieved September 2, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Timetable of Braunschweig Sports |. Retrieved September 2, 2018 .
  5. ↑ VDS News | From the regional clubs | VDS - Association of German Sports Journalists. Retrieved September 2, 2018 .
  6. ↑ From the rubble field to the tartan track. Sports history in Braunschweig after the Second World War. 1946 to 1996. 50 years of the Braunschweig City Sports Association. von Hoffmeister, Kurt and Ulrich Everling :: Braunschweig, self-published, paperback - books near the 7 mountains. Retrieved September 2, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Stefan Kamer: Association of Lower Saxony Sports Press - Ulrich Everling died | Association of Lower Saxony Sports Press. Retrieved September 2, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Everling, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball player and sports journalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 2018