Klaus Kotter

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Klaus Kotter (born May 27, 1934) was a West German-German tax consultant who served as the third president of the Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing (FIBT - International Bobsleigh and Tobogganing Federation), serving as interim from 1978 to 1980, then as president from 1980 to 1994.

Born in Prien am Chiemsee, Kotter became treasurer of the West German Bobsleigh, Luge, and Skeleton Federation (BSD, German since 1990 reunification). By the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, he was Olympic attache for the West German Olympic Committee, the same year he was elected Vice President of the FIBT. In 1978, he was named interim FIBT President following the ill health of then-president Almicare Rotta on Italy. Kotter was elected president in 1980, serving until 1994.

In 1984, Kotter was named BSD president, a position he held until his 2004 retirement.

Kotter later received the Olympic Order. He was also named an honorary past-president of FIBT, a position he continues to hold.

[edit] References

• 2007-8 FIBT media guide featuring Kotter - accessed April 12, 2008.
• FIL-Luge.org May 27, 2004 article on Kotter's retirement from the BSD. - accessed April 12, 2008.
• "Bobsleigh and Olympism". Olympic Review. December 1984. p. 1014.