Hermann's son Ernst had emigrated to Boston and introduced the game of basketball to his father.
[2][3] August held the first game in Germany in the city of Braunschweig where he was a well-known advocate and instructor of physical education and sports.
As a result of implementing basketball at universities in Munich, Breslau, Gera, Wünsdorf and Bad Kreuznach, foreign students began to play.
[citation needed] In 1936, the International Olympic Committee included basketball as an official medal event.
Though the basketball games were played outdoors in poor conditions, there was significant media coverage of the sport in Germany.
Despite increased interest in the sport during the late 1930s, World War II stopped all development of basketball in Germany.
Following World War II, the United States government sent the Harlem Globetrotters to Germany in 1951 to help counter communism.
There are also many Germans who are recruited to play at the college level and in the National Basketball Association, or NBA.