Alfred Ries

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Alfred Ries (born December 5, 1897 in Bremen ; † August 25, 1967 there ) was a German diplomat and sports official.

Life

After attending pre-primary and secondary school at Doventor, Ries began training as an export merchant. After the end of the First World War, he became involved with SV Werder Bremen and was its president for several years during the Weimar Republic.

Ries worked for the HAG Group in Bremen from the mid-1920s , later also as managing director of Böttcherstrasse .

With the rise of the National Socialists, the Jew Ries left Bremen and moved to other positions in the HAG Group in Munich , Marienbad and Zagreb . After several years in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia , Ries returned to his hometown Bremen after the end of the Second World War. Alfred Ries's parents did not survive the National Socialist tyranny and were deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto on July 23, 1942 , where both were murdered.

After his return to the Hanseatic city, Ries was again involved as president of SV Werder Bremen and on the boards of the German sports organizations Deutscher Sportbund (DSB) and Deutscher Fußballbund (DFB). After the war, Ries also headed the State Foreign Trade Office on the Weser, before moving to the Foreign Service in 1953. After working in Yugoslavia , India and Liberia , Ries returned to Bremen in 1963. There he took over the presidency of Werder Bremen again. The team became German football champions for the first time during his presidency in 1965 and thus made it into the European Cup.

In the 1965 federal election , Ries ran for the FDP in the Bremen-East constituency. Despite being ranked number 1 in the state list, he did not win a mandate for the Bonn parliament. Alfred Ries was a member of the liberal DDP as early as the Weimar Republic .

Alfred Ries died after a serious illness on August 25, 1967 and is buried in the Jewish cemetery in Bremen-Hastedt not far from the Weser Stadium .

On August 11, 2018, on Werder Bremen's “Day of Fans”, the green promenade in front of the west curve of the Weser Stadium was renamed “Alfred-Ries-Platz”. This was previously decided by the Eastern Suburbs Advisory Board.

literature

  • Ries, Alfred , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 310
  • Ries, Alfred , in: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical handbook of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 603

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Henry Wahlig: Jews in Sport during National Socialism. A historical handbook for Lower Saxony and Bremen . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1083-4 .
  2. ↑ Monika Felsing: The last address before Theresienstadt. In: Weser courier . October 6, 2010, accessed August 25, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Professional: Alfred Ries. In: Der Spiegel 23/1965. June 2, 1965, p. 130 , accessed August 29, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Max Brosta: Alfred Ries Square officially opened. In: werder.de. August 11, 2018. Retrieved August 20, 2018 . Timo Thalmann: Alfred-Ries-Platz in Bremen inaugurated. Remembering a President. In: Weser-Kurier Online. August 20, 2018. Retrieved August 20, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Ries, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat and sports official
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1967
Place of death Bremen