German Sportspersonality of the Year
Since 1947, select the German sports journalists, first in the four Allied occupation zones, from 1949, the Federal Republic of Germany at each end of the German Sportswoman of the Year and the Athlete of the Year. Since 1957, an additional team of the year is calculated. Was initiated this choice of Kurt Dobbratz, founder of the Sports Press Agency International sports correspondent, who is responsible as the organizer today. Since 1998, the proclamation of ZDF is transferred from the Kurhaus Baden -Baden.
In the GDR took place from 1953 to 1989, in contrast to the Federal Republic, a sportsman choice (see Sportsman of the Year (DDR ) ) as part of a reader survey conducted by the daily newspaper Junge Welt instead. An East German Sportswoman of the Year were first collected in 1958 from 1959, also a DDR Team of the Year. In 1990, then was the first joint election of the Athlete of the Year.
Since 2006, the Coach of the Year will be awarded, the award is made, however, by the German Olympic Sports Confederation ( DOSB).
Award winners and prize-winners
Most winners
- Nine awards: German national football team of men
- Six awards: Steffi Graf ( five times as an athlete, once as a member of the German Fed Cup team ), Germany aft
- Five Awards: Boris Becker ( four times as individual athletes, once as a member of the German Davis Cup team), Berti Vogts (always as a member of the team of the year, when Borussia Mönchengladbach (1971 and 1975 ) and the national team (1970 and 1974 ) as well as national coach (1996)), Franz Beckenbauer (always as a member of the Team of the Year, as a player of the national team (1966, 1970 and 1974) and Bayern Munich (1967 ) and as team manager of the national team (1990)), wheelchair basketball Team of women
- Four awards: German national hockey team of men, Ria Baran - Falk ( three times as an individual athlete, once as a couple with Paul Falk ), Ulrike Meyfarth, Michael Gross
- Three awards: Hans Fassnacht, Katja Seizinger, Franziska van Almsick, Jan Ullrich ( individually twice, once as a member of Team Telekom 1997), Harald Schmid ( individually twice, once as a member of the 4 × 400 m relay, 1982), Hans Günter Winkler ( individually twice, once as a member of the jumping team in 1969 ), track cycling quad, Jürgen Klinsmann (twice as a player of the national team (1990 and 1996 ) and one national coach (2006) ), Oliver Bierhoff (twice as a player of the national team (1996 and 2002) and once as team manager of the national team (2006) ), Heiner Brand (twice as a player of the national team (1978 ) and VfL Gummersbach and once as a coach of the national team ( 2007) ), Magdalena Neuner, Borussia Dortmund and FC Bayern Munich.
Special
Ulrike Nasse- Meyfarth became the first athlete elected four consecutive times ( 1981-84 ), which then only Steffi Graf ( 1986-1989) succeeded in having ten years, the largest time difference between two sportswoman awards (1989 and 1999). When Hans Günter Winkler were as Active 13 years between two honors ( 1956 and 1969 individual athletes as a member of the jumping team ). In Berti Vogts it was even 26 years between the election as Active the German national football team (1970) and the election as their coach (1996).
Four times so far succeeded athletes in one year alone, both to be elected in the team: 1976 Gregor Brown, 1985 Boris Becker, 1997 Jan Ullrich and 1999, Martin Schmitt and once an athlete: 1987 Steffi Graf.
A curiosity is also the choice of Ria Baran - Falk, who was elected in 1951 both for Sportswoman of the Year, as well as with her husband, Paul Falk Sportsman of the Year. The Olympic gold medalist Ingrid Krämer from Dresden was elected in 1960 in both the Federal Republic and the GDR Athlete of the Year. With Katrin Krabbe 1990 was also chosen equal to one athlete from the new federal states in the year of reunification. The 2000 Selected Heike Drechsler was 1986 athlete of the year in the GDR.
During 1964 Roswitha Esser and Anne Marie Zimmermann two athletes were chosen that were active together in the kayak - two, 1966 two athletes were chosen with the same score on the first place with Helga Hoffmann and Karin Frisch.
1961 Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips was elected posthumously to the Sportsman of the Year.
Recent solo winners were Wiltrud Urselmann with 15 years for women and Boris Becker with 18 years for men. Oldest Single winners were Karl Kling at the men and women with Birgit Fischer at the age of 42.
With Dirk Nowitzki a team athlete was named Sportsman of the Year in 2011 for the first time. Nowitzki became in 2005 second and third in 2007. The appointment Sportsman of the Year 2011, Nowitzki's second award, after in 2005 the German national basketball team of the gentlemen had been elected to the Team of the Year.
Statistics after sports
- Athletics 15 times
- Swimming 12 times
- Motorsport 7 times
- Tennis 7 times
- Cycling 6 times
- Nordic skiing 5 times
- Horse riding 3 times
- Gymnastics 3 times
- Biathlon 1 times
- Boxes 1 times
- Figure Skating 1 times
- Weightlifting 1 times
- Luge 1 times
- Rowing 1 times
- Alpine Skiing 1 times
- Basketball 1 times
- Athletics 25 times
- Swimming 11 times
- Alpine Skiing 9 times
- Biathlon 5 times
- Tennis 5 times
- Figure skating 4 times
- Fencing 2 times
- Canoe 2 times
- Rollkunstlauf 1 times
- Gymnastics 1 times
- Football, men 20 times ( 9 times national team 11 times clubs)
- Rowing, Men's 8 times ( 6 times National Team, 2- time club team )
- Handball 4 times (2 times National Team, two - time clubs)
- Hockey, Men's 4 times
- Cycling 4 times (3 times National Team, 1 time club team )
- Fencing 3 times
- Athletics 3 times
- Basketball 2 times
- Football, women 2 times
- Nordic skiing 2 times
- Hockey, Women 1 times
- Riding, 1 time
- Tennis, Women 1 times
- Tennis, Men 1 times