{{short description|German sports journalist and administrator}} {{expand German|topic=bio|Klaus Huhn|date=July 2015}} thumb|250px|Huhn in 2008
'''Klaus Huhn''' (24 February 1928 – 20 January 2017) was a German sports journalist, writer and sports administrator.<ref name=BiographischeDatenbankenKH>{{cite web|url=http://www.bundesstiftung-aufarbeitung.de/wer-war-wer-in-der-ddr-%2363%3B-1424.html?ID=3603|author1= Klaus Gallinat |title=Ullrich, Klaus (eigtl.: Klaus Huhn) * 24.2.1928 Sportjournalist|publisher= Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur: Biographische Datenbanken |language= German|accessdate= 15 July 2015}}</ref> Huhn worked for the East German mass-market daily newspaper, ''Neues Deutschland'', and was chairman of the Sports Journalists Sub-Association within that country's important Union of Journalists.
As a writer he concentrated on the great names from the sporting history of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), and wrote, more recently, largely for the "GDR nostalgia" readership.<ref name=focus>[http://www.focus.de/magazin/archiv/ddr-journalist-klaus-huhn-war-stasi-spitzel_aid_154495.html ''Journalist Klaus Huhn war Stasi-Spitzel.''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924170459/http://www.focus.de/magazin/archiv/ddr-journalist-klaus-huhn-war-stasi-spitzel_aid_154495.html |date=2015-09-24 }} In: ''Focus Magazin.'' Nr. 45 (1995), 6. November 1995.</ref>
He published several books about the cycling legend Gustav-Adolf Schur, and was employed as the ghostwriter for Schur's autobiography.<ref name=SchurBuchlautReinsch>{{cite news|url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buecher/rezension-sachbuch-held-der-beinarbeit-11269834.html|title=Held der Beinarbeit ..... Heilige Sattelzeiten: Gustav-Adolf Schur radelt in seiner Autobiographie über Hölzchen und Stöckchen |first=Michael | last = Reinsch |newspaper=Faz.net |publisher=Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (online)|date=20 March 2001|accessdate=15 July 2015}}</ref> The book's objectivity was questioned by one reviewer who described it as "shameless propaganda".<ref name=SchurBuchlautReinsch/>
==Life== Huhn was born into a Communist family, in Berlin, where his father was a clerical worker. Huhn attended secondary school in Berlin and in Saalfeld.<ref name=BiographischeDatenbankenKH/>
In 1946 he joined the ''Deutsche Volkszeitung'', the central organ of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in the Soviet occupation zone.<ref name=benning>{{citation | first = Kristen | last = Benning | date = 1997 | title = Die Geschichte des SED-Zentralorgans Neues Deutschland von 1946 bis 1949. Die Waffenlieferanten "im Kampfe gegen die Reaktion und ihre Verwirrungsmanöver" |trans-title=The history of SED's official journal ''Neues Deutschland'' from 1946 to 1949: Arms suppliers "in the struggle against reactionaries and their strategies of distraction" | language = German | location = Münster | publisher = LIT Verlag }}</ref> In 1954 he took a correspondence course in journalism at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig and in 1983 he was at the German College of Physical Culture, also in Leipzig, with a doctorate in pedagogy.
He died at the age of 88 on 20 January 2017.<ref>Wolfgang Hübner: [https://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/1039288.eine-grosse-nummer.html ''Eine große Nummer''], Nachruf in Neues Deutschland, 21 Januar 2017</ref>
==Books== *2016 ''Exkursion durch volkseigene Ruinen: Vom Verschwinden einer ganzen Volkswirtschaft'', ("Excursion Through Nationalized Ruins: the Disappearance of an Entire Economy"), Edition Berolina, {{ISBN|978-3958-4106-57}}<ref>{{cite book|title=Exkursion durch volkseigene Ruinen: Vom Verschwinden einer ganzen Volkswirtschaft|first=Klaus|last=Huhn|publisher=edition berolina|id={{ASIN|3958410650|country=de}}}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist|35em}}
==Further reading== * Friedrichs, Hanns Joachim (1994), ''Journalists Lives'', Munich, pp. 149 et seq. * Huhn, Klaus (2011), ''Auch dem Papst half ich mal aus der Klemme. Episoden eines bewegten Lebens'', Berlin: Edition Ost {{ISBN|978-3-360-01822-9}}. * Michael Meyen, Anke Fiedler (ed.) (2010), ''Die Grenze im Kopf. Journalisten in der DDR'', Panama Verlag, {{ISBN|978-3-938714-16-4}}.
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