Klaus Huhn

[1] 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.

[3] The book's objectivity was questioned by one reviewer who described it as "shameless propaganda".

[3] Huhn was born into a Communist family, in Berlin, where his father was a clerical worker.

[1] In 1946 he joined the Deutsche Volkszeitung, the central organ of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in the Soviet occupation zone.