Hans-Joachim Faber

Hans-Joachim "Hajo" Faber (* 1969 in Neuwied ) is a German lawyer and football official.

Career

Faber and his partner have been running a law firm on Jahnplatz in downtown Bielefeld since 2003 . Faber represented the speedster " Ernie ", known in Bielefeld, several times in court. In addition, he worked in a Bielefeld cinema as a ticket seller and teller. In 1998 he became a member of Arminia Bielefeld and from then on was involved in the club, among other things as a stadium announcer for the A-Jugend or as a referee supervisor. The radio station Radio Bielefeld presents Faber since 2006, the column Poetry in leather , where he in poetic form and with the inclusion of sound bites of the association let happen the players and coaches in a humorous way the games Revue.

In June 2011 Hajo Faber was elected to Arminia Bielefeld's honorary council. At the general meeting, the board of directors around President Hans-Hermann Schwick resigned. Hajo Faber was elected transitional president from the ranks of the honorary council so that the highly indebted association remained capable of acting. While Faber's presidential Arminia brought a second Fananleihe on the way to the bankruptcy to avoid. Faber also dismissed the managing director Ralf Schnitzmeier after he was put on record due to private misconduct. After 66 days in office, Faber resigned. His successor was Jörg Zillies .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Jörg Fritz: Hans Joachim Faber: Arminia's somewhat different president. Neue Westfälische , accessed on November 2, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Editor: Poetry in Leather - Arminia Bielefeld with a difference. Liga3-Online, accessed November 2, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Arminia appoints transitional presidium. Neue Westfälische, accessed on November 2, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Michael König, Philipp Kreutzer: 111 reasons to love Arminia Bielefeld - a declaration of love to the greatest football club in the world . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86265-415-4 , pp. 273-274 .