Franz-Josef Kemper

Franz-Josef Kemper (born 30 September 1945) is a German athlete, Olympic participant and official. He achieved his greatest success as a middle-distance runner in the 1960s and 1970s.

Kemper was born in Hopsten, Kreis Steinfurt, and is married to Sylvia Schenk, jurist and former track and field athlete.

ports career

In his time as an active athlete (1964-1973), Kemper became a five-time German champion on the 800 metres (in 1965, 1966, 1967, 1970, and 1971). Overall he achieved 11 more titles at the German athletics championships in indoor competition, in relay and in cross-country running. Kemper was active for SC Preußen Münster.

In 1966, he achieved a new European 800 metres record as well as world records in the 1,000 metres and the 4 x 800 metres relay. He took part in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City and finished fourth in the 800 metres at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.

In 1967, Kemper was awarded the "Silberne Lorbeerblatt" (the Silver Laurel Leaf), the highest German athletics award.

Official career

Kemper studied sports, and German language and literature, at the University of Münster and sociology at the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt. At the TH Darmstadt, he received a Doctor of Philosophy in 1980.

Since the year 2000, Kemper has been the assistant director and director of the sports department and holds an honorary position in the Ministry of the Interior and Sport in Rhineland Palatinate. In March 2003, he was appointed by the council of ministers of the federal states as the national delegate to the 2006 FIFA World Cup. He has held this office since 15 April 2004.

Honorary appointments

*1989-1993: Kemper belonged to the Presidium of the Deutschen Leichtathletik-Verbandes (DLV).
*1989-1998: A member of the Federal Board on Popular Sports in the Deutschen Sportbund (DSB).
*1995-1998: Chairman of the Working Group on "Sports in Health" of the DSB.

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