Heinrich Klein (inventor)

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Heinrich Klein (born May 18, 1919 in Riegel am Kaiserstuhl ; † July 31, 2011 in Dortmund ) was a German civil engineer and inventor of the goal wall .

Career

As a pioneer , Klein lost his left lower leg in the Battle of Monte Cassino in 1944 and therefore wore a prosthesis . The right leg was shot through eight times. In 1954, Klein became technical director of the Dortmund Westfalenhallen . In this function, he had the task of organizing celebrity competitions for the annual West German Sports Press Festival. The initial idea of shooting a goalkeeper in a handball goal from a distance of eleven meters was quickly abandoned, as the goalkeeper could hardly be overcome from this distance. Klein replaced the goalkeeper with a chipboard , in which he sawed two circular holes at the top left and bottom right. The sports journalists Werner Schneider and Wim Thoelke , then members of the West German sports press, took the idea with the ZDF , where the goal wall since 1963 an integral part of the program the current sports studio is.

On April 17, 1991, Klein received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for his commitment to disabled sports.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b dpa / sara: inventor of the ZDF goal wall died. In: Die Welt from August 2, 2011
  2. ↑ The inventor of the ZDF goal wall is dead. In: sueddeutsche.de of August 3, 2011
  3. ^ A. Westhoff: Heinrich Klein. Goal wall inventor died. In: FAZ.net of August 3, 2011
  4. ↑ Kult: The inventor of the goal wall , WAZ, 23 August 2009
  5. ↑ Goal wall inventor Heinrich Klein is dead In: Stuttgarter Zeitung of August 2nd, 2011
  6. ↑ T. Großekemper: The inventor of the goal wall is dead.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Ruhr Nachrichten from August 1, 2011@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ruhrnachrichten.de  
  7. ↑ Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Klein, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer and inventor of the goal wall
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Riegel at the Kaiserstuhl
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 2011
Place of death Dortmund