Albert Poensgen (President of the Finance Court)

Albert Poensgen

Albert Poensgen (born February 4, 1881 in Düsseldorf , † June 9, 1976 in Mannheim ) was a German finance court president and internationally successful billiard player .

family

Albert Poensgen came from the well-known Düsseldorf industrialist family Poensgen , which originated as the Reidemeister family in the Schleiden / Eifel area. He was the son of the Düsseldorf industrialist Carl Poensgen and Clara Poensgen (1846-1910), née Poensgen, daughter of the entrepreneur Albert Poensgen from a cousin line of the family. His brothers included the Düsseldorf steel industrialist Ernst Poensgen and the Düsseldorf private banker Kurt Poensgen ; the Düsseldorf industrialist Rudolf Poensgen was his uncle.

Albert Poensgen was married to Katharina Bögel (* 1892).

Life

Albert Poensgen attended the municipal high school in Düsseldorf from 1890 to 1899 and then studied law and political science in Heidelberg, Munich and Bonn. In 1901 he became a member of the Corps Guestphalia Heidelberg .

After the two state examinations in Berlin (1903 and 1910) he was a court assessor in Düsseldorf from 1910 to 1919 , interrupted by a year and a half training at a major bank and participation in the First World War as a lieutenant in the reserve in the Leib-Dragoon Regiment (2nd . Grand Ducal Hessian) No. 24 . Poensgen was awarded the EK I and II as well as the Hessian medal for bravery . In 1920 he was taken over by the Reich Finance Administration in Berlin. His official career culminated in his appointment as President of the Finance Court in the Oberfinanzpräsidium Berlin-Brandenburg in 1940. After the Second World War , Poensgen worked in the financial administration of the Berlin magistrate until 1951 .

As a pensioner, Poensgen joined the traditional “ Lawless Society of Berlin ”, founded in 1809 in 1955 , which sees itself as the “bearer of tradition, culture and science”.

billiards

Career

Albert Poensgen as a collision player

Poensgen's great passion was billiards . As early as 1911 he was one of the co-founders of the German Amateur Billiards Association (DABB), which was renamed " Deutscher Billardbund " (DBB) in 1955 and integrated into the German Billard Union from 1992 onwards . The DABB later named Poensgen honorary president. In this role he played a key role in the DABB becoming a full member of the Confédération Européenne de Billard (CEB), the European umbrella organization, and subsequently also of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB). This recognition led to an enormous boom in the sport of billiards and billiards clubs. Poensgen started out for the Billard Club Frankfurt in 1912 . In 1932 he received the " Golden Ribbon " from the Association of Sports Journalists of Berlin / Brandenburg for his sporting merits .

To protect his privacy , Poensgen often competed in tournaments under the pseudonym "Schmitz".

successes

• World Champion 1931, Cadre 45/2 , Geneva, general average (GD) 21.05
• World Champion 1932, Cadre 45/2, New York, GD 15.93
• Vice World Champion 1906, Cadre 45/2, Brussels, GD 7.73
• Vice World Champion 1926, Cadre 45/1 , Vichy, GD 7.39
• Vice World Champion 1933, Cadre 45/2, Cologne, GD 28.59
• FSFAB World Championships in cadre 35/2 and 45/2 : 1910, 1911/2, 1909, 1912/2
• Vice European Champion 1930, Cadre 45/2 , Groningen, GD 26.17
• 15 times German champion between 1913 and 1937.

Fonts

• with Roger Conti and Erik Kiesewetter: Billiards for everyone. Society f. Pressure and Publisher, 1961.
• Preface to Hans Niedermayr: The billiard game. 3., completely redesigned. u. exp. Edition. H. Steinitz, Berlin 1923.

literature

• Edmund Strutz (Hrsg.): German gender book . Volume 123, Verlag CA Starke, Glücksburg (Ostsee) 1958, p. 364.

Web links

Commons : Albert Poensgen (1881–1976)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• History BC Stuttgart
• Photos and postcards from Poensgen
• Billiard News - Sporting Life amateur tournament report March 4, 1911
  • Page 15 (PDF file; 422 kB)
  • Page 16 (PDF file; 518 kB)
• Poensgen Clever With Billiard Cue. German Champion Shows Fine Skill in Winning in International Tourney . New York Times, February 9, 1911 (English)
• Verena Mayer: It all started in Café Bristol. The history of German billiards began a hundred years ago in Frankfurt am Main. At that time, billiards fans gathered in Café Bristol . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from April 18, 2011

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Korps-Lists from 1960 , 64, 930, PDF (54 MB) Kösener Korps-Lists 1798–1910, Verlag der Academischen Monatshefte, Starnberg, 1910, page 448, No. 1068
2. ^ List of members of the Outlaw Society . Poensgen joined the Society in 1955 as Member No. 516.
3. ↑ Golden Ribbon Award Winner. VDS Berlin-Brandenburg, archived from the original on June 16, 2017 ; accessed on June 16, 2017 .  
4. ^ Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 3 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 1835 .
5. ↑ Achievements on Kozoom.com. Retrieved December 30, 2012.