Gerhard Delling
{{Short description|German television presenter and journalist (born 1959)}}
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Gerhard Delling (born 21 April 1959) is a German television presenter and sports journalist.
Life
Delling was born in Rendsburg. From 1980 to 1985 he studied at University of Kiel. He worked since 1987 as a journalist for German broadcaster ARD. As a sport reporter he worked for ARD at football sport events. He wrote several books on German football. From 2011 to 2014 he was main presenter of the German television programme Wochenspiegel.[https://www.noz.de/deutschland-welt/medien/artikel/496336/ard-stellt-wochenspiegel-ein NOZ.de: Ein TV-Dino stirbt, ARD stellt "Wochenspiegel" ein (German)]
Private life
Delling has three daughters, two of whom are from his first marriage. He was married to his second wife, television journalist Isabelle Delling (née Dreiss), who also worked for NDR, from June 2003 to the end of 2014.
Gerhard Delling's girlfriend has been in a relation to Hamburg-based entrepreneur Christina Block since 2021. She is the heiress of the "Block House" chain of fast-food restaurants.
Charge of aiding and abetting kidnapping
Block has been involved in a custody dispute over the father of two of her four children, her ex-husband Stephan Hensel, since the mid-2010s. She and Hensel were involved in a bitter custody battle over the two children, who live with their father in Denmark.
In 2021, according to NDR, Delling and Block discussed the return against the father's will with a security company for the first time.{{Cite web |last=NDR.de |title=14-jährige Tochter will im Prozess gegen Christina Block aussagen |url=https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/hamburg/14-jaehrige-tochter-will-im-prozess-gegen-christina-block-aussagen,block-102.html |access-date=2025-07-04 |website=ndr.de |language=de}}
The two children were brought from Denmark to Germany on New Year's Eve 2023/24. According to the public prosecutor's office, at least five men ambushed the father and children in Gråsten, southern Denmark, near the German border, before beating Hensel and dragging the children into a car. Two days later, the children showed up at Delling and Block's home.{{Cite web |date=2025-07-04 |title=Block wusste offenbar von Vorwürfen gegen Ex-Mann: "Er wird da nicht mehr rauskommen" |url=https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/panorama/kriminalitaet/id_100803818/prozess-wegen-entfuehrung-christina-block-wusste-offenbar-von-vorwuerfen-.html |access-date=2025-07-04 |website=t-online |language=de}}
Delling and Block are also said to have planned a smear campaign against the father and his lawyer, portraying them as pedophiles.
In the summer, Block was charged with kidnapping.{{Cite web |last=NDR.de |title=14-jährige Tochter will im Prozess gegen Christina Block aussagen |url=https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/hamburg/14-jaehrige-tochter-will-im-prozess-gegen-christina-block-aussagen,block-102.html |access-date=2025-07-04 |website=ndr.de |language=de}} On April 25, 2025, it was announced that Delling had been charged with aiding and abetting in the case.
Works
- Fußball-Deutsch, Deutsch-Fußball – Berlin: Langenscheidt, 2006
- Portugal 2004 – Munich: Südwest, 2004
- 50 Jahre Bundesliga – Göttingen: Verl. Die Werkstatt, 2012
Awards
- 2000: Grimme-Preis (together with Günter Netzer)
References
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External links
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- [https://www.noz.de/deutschland-welt/medien/artikel/496336/ard-stellt-wochenspiegel-ein NOZ.de: Ein TV-Dino stirbt, ARD stellt "Wochenspiegel" ein] (in German)
- [https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&query=130632457 Deutsche Nationalbiliothek: Gerhard Delling]
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Category:German sports journalists
Category:German sports broadcasters
Category:German television reporters and correspondents
Category:20th-century German journalists
Category:21st-century German journalists
Category:University of Kiel alumni
Category:People from Rendsburg