Hans-Jürgen Hinrichs

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Hans-Jürgen Hinrichs (born January 22, 1933 in Rodenwalde ; † December 16, 2015 in Traunstein ) was a German handball player and sports official .

Life

Hans-Jürgen Hinrichs grew up in Mecklenburg and moved to the Federal Republic in 1953 . He studied economics in Marburg and Kiel until 1957 . From 1958 he worked for Volkswagen AG and represented the company in Mexico and the United States . In 1976 Hinrichs moved to Daimler-Benz AG and was Vice President of Daimler-Benz USA . In 1981 he became deputy Member of the Board of Management and in 1983 full member of the Board of Management of Daimler-Benz AG. In 1988 he took early retirement, but remained active in an advisory capacity. In other companies ( Gerling insurance group, Carl Zeiss ) he was a member of the supervisory board.

Hinrichs was married and the father of three children. He died on December 16, 2015 at the age of 82.

Sports

Hinrichs began his sporting career as a track and field athlete. In 1954 he was a member of the German national athletics team. In the same year he was German junior high jump champion . As a handball goalkeeper he worked for SC Empor Rostock (today HC Empor Rostock ), THW Kiel , with which he became German champion in 1957 , and VfL Wolfsburg . As the goalkeeper of the German national handball team , he had 26 missions between 1955 and 1962. With the joint German team of DHV and DHB , he took part in the 1958 Handball World Cup in the GDR (3rd place) and at the 1961 World Cup in the Federal Republic of Germany (4th place).

At the 1964 Handball World Cup in the ČSSR , the man who worked for VW in the United States at that time stood in goal for the American national team . However, the team was eliminated in the preliminary round and lost to both the West German (13:24) and the GDR national team (9:20).

After the end of his sporting career, Hinrichs concentrated on his professional career, but had also been a voluntary sports official since the mid-1970s, from 1988 to 1994 as deputy chairman of the Deutsche Sporthilfe Foundation , as a member of the executive board of the German Sports Association and as a board member of the federal committee Competitive sport .

In October 1989 he was elected President of the German Handball Federation to succeed Bernhard Thiele . In May 1993 he resigned from this office. His Daimler-Benz colleague Bernd Steinhauser , whom Hinrichs had brought to the DHB and enforced as Vice President, became his successor.

In November 1991, Hinrichs was elected Vice President of the newly founded EHF . He held the office until the end of the 1990s.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The family's obituary gives the date of birth January 21.
  2. ↑ a b Obituary notice Daimler-Benz AG , FAZ , December 22, 2015
  3. ^ Former DHB President Hans-Jürgen Hinrichs has died. In: rp-online.de . Rheinische Post , December 18, 2015, accessed on December 18, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Hinrichs, Hans-Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German handball player and sports official
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Rodenwalde , Mecklenburg , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 2015
Place of death Traunstein