Alexander Sparhawk

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Alexander Sperber (* 1952 in Dayton (Ohio) ) is a football player and co-founder of the first German football club, the Frankfurter Löwen . He was thus involved in the development of American football in Germany .

Life

Sparrowhawk was born at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton. The son of a US soldier and a German mother went to the USA after graduating from high school in Frankfurt am Main to study 'special studies for free art' with Professor Gaukler and Gerald from 1967 to 1969 at the San José State University Martin to study. 1970 to 1973 he completed a degree in art history and economies at the University of Maryland . At the end of 1973 he came back to Germany and studied architecture in Frankfurt am Main until 1979. He then worked as a freelance architect and furniture designer until 1986. In 1986 he founded his own company in Frankfurt, where he designed furniture as well as overall planning for houses. In 1989 he resumed his work as a painter and sculptor. In 1991 his work was presented in the opening exhibition of the Kunsthaus am Schloss in Aschaffenburg . In 1977 he founded the first German football club, the Frankfurter Löwen, together with Wolfgang Lehneis, Ulli Stöcker, Hans Peter Hess, Harald Frank, Max Sperber and Moe Levine. The initiative that led to the founding of the association developed through games against American soldiers at the US High School in Frankfurt.

With Sperber's cooperation and mediation, the " Lions" played against American air force teams such as the Wiesbaden Flyers or Rhein Main Rockets. Games were also played against the Kitzingen Colts, a US Army team, as there was no German team capable of playing until then . A television interview with Sperber and Lehneis, conducted by Holger Obermann , led to the establishment of further football clubs in Germany. From 1979 to 1981 Sperber was the first President of the American Football Association in Germany.

literature

  • Kunsthaus am Schloss. Catalog for the opening exhibition, Aschaffenburg, 1991

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.athleticenterprises.com/footballhistory.html ( Memento from October 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ The history of American football in Germany ( Memento from January 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ History of American Football in Germany . Retrieved March 23, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Sparrowhawk, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American football player and co-founder of the first German football club
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Dayton (Ohio)