Heinrich Hünecke

Heinrich Hünecke (born August 20, 1891 in Brebber, today Asendorf , † November 6, 1971 in Hanover ) was a sports teacher , sports official and administrative officer . He was the first President of the Lower Saxony State Sports Association and founding vice- president of the German Sports Association .

education

Hünecke was the second son of a farmer in the district of Hoya who, after completing the one-class elementary school, attended the elementary school teacher preparation institute in Bederkesa at the age of 14 . After three years he passed the entrance examination to the teachers' seminar, which he successfully completed in 1912 with the elementary school teacher examination. In the administrative district of Stade he also passed the second teacher examination and then reported as a war volunteer . Wounded several times, he became an elementary school teacher in Adelstedt from 1916 , sat for the SPD in the local council and in the district council, was a gymnastics supervisor in the club and organized youth competitions. At the age of 36 he graduated from the Prussian University for Physical Education in Spandau , which he graduated as the best in his year. With this exam he was now qualified for secondary school and moved to Hanover . Here he was removed from office in 1933 as a committed social democrat and functionary. With the help of friends, however, he managed to survive the Nazi era as a company sports teacher for the Kraft durch Freude movement at Deutsche Edelstahlwerke .

Career

As early as June 1945, Hünecke was appointed to the school council, but at the end of 1945 he moved to the later Ministry of Education as a sports advisor . There he enjoyed a lot of freedom with Minister Adolf Grimme - whom he knew from the pre-war period. He was responsible for rebuilding state sports funding, and was involved in school sports and sports teacher training. At the same time, Hünecke played a leading role in setting up the new democratic sports organization in Lower Saxony , the British Zone and what would later become the Federal Republic. In the tradition of workers' sport in Germany, he campaigned for the multi-discipline club and against the principle of professional associations. The vertical solidarity required in this way was intended to redistribute money from rich football to poorer sports. Hünecke was elected chairman of the Lower Saxony Sports Committee - later the LSB - in July 1946 and remained so until his resignation in 1955. He was the initiator of the first sports conference for the British Zone in Detmold in May 1946 and, as an exponent of the principle of unity, was one of the pioneers for the German Sports Association , also as an assessor in the German Sports Association (ADS) founded in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe in October 1948 . The establishment of the German Sports Federation on December 10, 1950 in his place of residence in Hanover is also closely linked to his work in the background. Hünecke was elected 1st Vice President of the DSB and was a member of the DSB Presidium from 1952 to 1958 until he retired from sport. As early as 1955, he had resigned from the office of LSB chairman in Lower Saxony and was unanimously appointed LSB honorary chairman by the State Sports Congress. In connection with the Toto scandal in Lower Saxony at that time , Hünecke temporarily resigned from his position as honorary chairman of the LSB and also filed criminal complaints against former LSB board members; however, the proceedings were discontinued. After a lengthy arbitration process in which Hünecke sidelined, he was expelled from the LSB Lower Saxony in April 1960. Due to the entanglement of sport and state administration (the official Hünecke was the controller of the LSB President Hünecke), irregularities in the pool could not be discovered in time. In the course of disciplinary proceedings, however, Hünecke was completely exonerated. However, the LSB had excluded Hünecke and persistently remained silent, so that he fell victim to the damnatio memoriae for over 50 years . Only after the beneficiaries of the scandal retired or died, did the LSB Hünecke fully rehabilitate and name the largest sports and event hall of the LSB in Hanover after him.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reinhard Rawe: Heinrich Hünecke, the forgotten first chairman of the LSB. In: Arnd Krüger , Bernd Wedemeyer-Kolwe (ed.): Forgotten, suppressed, rejected: on the history of exclusion in sport. Lit, Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-643-10338-3 , pp. 173-191.
2. ^ Arnd Krüger : The German way of worker sports. In: Arnd Krüger, James Riordan (Ed.): The Story of Worker Sport . Human Kinetics, Champaign, Ill. 1996, pp. 1-25.
3. ↑ Lorenz Peiffer (Ed.): The First Unit - From ADS to DSB (1948–1950). Report of the 2nd Hoya conference on the development of post-war sport in Germany. Mecke, Duderstadt 1989.
4. ^ Heinrich Hünecke - From village school teacher to DSB vice-president. on: schattenblick.de
5. ↑ Arnd Krüger: The seven ways to fall into oblivion. In: Arnd Krüger, Bernd Wedemeyer-Kolwe (eds.): Forgotten, suppressed, rejected: on the history of exclusion in sport. Lit, Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-643-10338-3 , pp. 4-16.