Hans Hansen (sports official)
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Hans Hansen (born February 13, 1926 in Flensburg ; † December 12, 2007 there ) was President of the German Sports Confederation (DSB) for eight years and its honorary president until his death.
Life
Hans Hansen completed his secondary school leaving certificate in Flensburg in 1943. In 1944 the 18-year-old was drafted into the armed forces. Hansen was already working as a journalist at this time. After the war he first worked as a grain merchant and then from 1957 to 1963 as a sports editor for the Flensburger Tageblatt . From 1963 to 1987 Hansen was press chief of the state parliament in Schleswig-Holstein, from 1987 to 1988 government spokesman for the state government of Schleswig-Holstein.
He had been married since 1971 and lived in Glücksburg . In the last years of his life, Hansen increasingly withdrew from the public eye for health reasons.
Offices in the sports sector
In 1946, Hans Hansen was one of the founders of the Flensburg Regional Sports Association, of which he was chairman from 1958. From 1954 Hansen was youth warden in the Schleswig-Holstein Football Association and from 1956 to 1965 a member of the board of the Schleswig-Holstein youth sports club.
After Hans Hansen had worked in the Public Relations Committee of the German Sports Youth since 1962, Hansen's work on a nationwide scale began with his election as second chairman of the DSJ in 1964. Public relations and youth policy were the focus of his work. Among other things, he was responsible for the DSJ organ “Olympic Youth”. In 1968 he was appointed to the Presidium of the German Sports Confederation. In 1972 Hans Hansen left the sports youth leadership and took over the presidency of the state sports association Schleswig-Holstein from 1974 to 2001 and has been its honorary president ever since. At the same time he was Vice President of the DSB from 1974.
In 1986 Hans Hansen was elected President of the DSB to succeed Willi Weyer . German reunification took place during his DSB presidency . With empathy and skill, he organized the connection of the five new state sports federations to the DSB and dealt rather cautiously with the stasis and doping problem, which was criticized as a weakness by critics. In 1994, Hansen was replaced by Manfred von Richthofen in the office of DSB President . The enthusiastic tennis player had been honorary president of the association since 1997 and in 1999 took on the role of senior sports officer at the DSB.
In addition to his offices in the sports umbrella organizations, Hans Hansen was also active on the board of the DFB (1967–1986) and was chairman of the Schleswig-Holstein Football Association.
In 1974 , the year of the World Cup , the amateur sailor was the spokesman for the German national soccer team . At the Olympic Games in Montreal in 1976 and at the Games in Seoul in 1988 Hansen was press spokesman for the National Olympic Committee .
Hans Hansen also worked for sport in numerous honorary positions. For example, since 1988 he has been chairman of the board of trustees of the German Sport University Cologne . Furthermore, he was a member of the ZDF television council and the NDR broadcasting council (eight years as chairman) and vice-chairman of the Euro-Sportring Foundation, as well as other foundations and boards of trustees such as the German Sports Museum Association. The Hansen Collection is in the archive of the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History .
honors and awards
- Honorary member of the Schleswig-Holstein Football Association (SHFV) since 1974
- Golden badge of honor of the SHFV 1974
- Golden badge of honor of the DFB 1979
- Honorary member of the DFB since 1986
- Honorary President of the German Sports Confederation since 1994
- Hermann Ehlers Prize 1999
- Honorary President of the LSV Schleswig-Holstein since 2001
- Honorary member of the National Olympic Committee (NOK)
- Honorary President of the Schleswig-Holstein State Sports Association
- Sports badge of the state of Schleswig-Holstein
- Honorary member of the Association of German Sports Journalists (VDS)
- Schleswig-Holstein Medal
- Federal Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 1976
- Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class 1980
- Big Federal Cross of Merit 1986
- Large Federal Cross of Merit with Star 1993
- Honorary doctorate Dr. hc of the Chinese Cultural University of Taipei for its intensive cooperation in sport between Taiwan and Germany (1992)
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hansen, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sports official |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 13, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Flensburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 12, 2007 |
| Place of death | Flensburg |