Alfred Finkbeiner

Alfred Finkbeiner (born May 7, 1923 in Heilbronn ; † April 30, 1992 there ) was a German pedagogue and sports official.

Life

He became a teacher in Großgartach in 1947 and switched to the Silcherschule in Heilbronn in 1957. In 1962 he came to the girls' school in the Rosenau School as rector , which was spun off as the Wilhelm Hauff School in the same year and of which he was rector for another 15 years. After that he was appointed as school board managing principals of all Heilbronner primary, junior, intermediate and special schools. Most recently he was director of the Heilbronn Education Authority from 1982 to 1986.

Finkbeiner, who himself was an active athlete as a goalkeeper for soccer and ice hockey teams in his youth, but suffered eighty percent severe damage in World War II, was particularly committed to school sports and was chairman of school soccer in the Württemberg soccer association from 1954 and from 1963 in the German Football Association . Later he was a board member and chairman of the youth committee of the DFB. From 1983 to 1987 he was chairman of the Württemberg State Sports Association .

Honors

• Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (April 29, 1983)
• Golden DFB pin
• Golden coin of the city of Heilbronn awarded.
• Alfred-Finkbeiner-Strasse in Heilbronn

literature

• Gerhard Schwinghammer, Reiner Makowski: The Heilbronn street names . 1st edition. Silberburg-Verlag, Tübingen 2005, ISBN 3-87407-677-6 , pp. 22-23
• One hundred years of rose school Heilbronn. 1900-2000 . Rose School, Heilbronn 2000.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information from the Federal President's Office