Karl-Joachim Hürter

Karl -Joachim Hürter ( born October 21, 1960 in Mayen ) is a German former hockey player and later a sports official.

Karl -Joachim Hürter began his sports career six years at TuS Mayen green and white, in which his two older sisters played hockey. In 1980 he moved to study in Cologne and joined Black and White Cologne. With this club he reached in 1982 and 1983 in the hall outside the final of the German Cup, but lost each against the Turngemeinde Frankenthal.

The attacking all-rounder made ​​his debut in 1982 in the German national hockey team. At the Olympic Games in 1984 Hürter came in six of seven games used in the final he lost to the German team against Pakistan 2-1 and won the silver medal. 1986 belonged favor of the winning team in the FIH Champions Trophy. In the 1986 World Cup, the German team took third place. Overall, Karl -Joachim Hürter worked from 1982 to 1988 in 79 countries playing with.

Karl -Joachim Hürter from 1999 to 2005 at the German Hockey Federation responsible for the finances. 2006 Hürter was chairman of the organizing committee for the field hockey World Championship for Men. He has worked as a tax consultant in Cologne.