Heinrich Schmidhuber

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the German mining official see Heinrich Schmidhuber (Bergmann) .

Heinrich Schmidhuber (born February 21, 1936 in Freyung ) is a German bank manager, politician and football official. As a member of the CSU , he was a member of the Bavarian state parliament from 1970 to 1978 . From 1998 to 2004 he served as President of the Bavarian Football Association (BFV). From October 23, 2004 to October 26, 2007 Schmidhuber was a member of the Presidium of the German Football Association (DFB) as treasurer .

education and profession

Schmidhuber grew up in the Bavarian Forest during the Second World War . From 1942 to 1949 he attended elementary school in Freyung. He then moved to the municipal business school in Passau , which he completed in 1952 with a secondary school leaving certificate. At Kreissparkasse Wolfstein he completed a three-year apprenticeship as a banker. After the examination for the high-class Sparkasse service, he took over the management of the branch of the Sparkasse in Waldkirchen in 1961 (until 1970) and was director of the Sparkasse Freyung-Grafenau from 1978 to 1986 . From 1986 to 1993 he was director of Sparkasse Landshut , and at the same time chairman of the Sparkasse district association of Lower Bavaria and member of the advisory board of the Bavarian Savings Banks and Giro Association. After all, from 1993 to 2000 he was Managing President at the head of the Bavarian Savings Banks Association.

politics

In addition to his professional career, Schmidhuber was also politically active from the early 1960s. He joined the CSU in 1963 and initially took over the office of district chairman in the Wolfstein district of their youth organization Junge Union , and later from 1967 to 1970 that of district chairman in Lower Bavaria . In 1966, when he was elected to the Wolfsteiner Kreisag, he was given a political mandate for the first time. In 1969 he was elected first mayor of the market town of Waldkirchen and after the state elections on November 22, 1970, he moved to the Bavarian state parliament for the first time as a member of the Bavarian state parliament, to which he was a member until his early retirement on March 14, 1978. With his efforts, the Waldkirchen market was elevated to a town in 1972.

Soccer

Schmidhuber's private interest has always been in football. From 1964 on, he held various positions at district and district level for the Bavarian Football Association (BFV). After Ernst Knoesel was forced to resign as a result of the financial affair surrounding the Oberhaching sports school , Schmidhuber was elected President of the BFV in 1998. In the six years of his presidency, he led the association back into calmer waters and was elected honorary president after his resignation. In the summer of 2004 he made a name for himself as a firm supporter of the resignation of DFB President Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder and a supporter of his opponent Theo Zwanziger . At the DFB Association Day on October 23, 2004, he was elected president as his successor to the office of treasurer after his twenties were elected. In this role he was a member of the organizing committee for the 2006 Soccer World Cup . At the DFB Bundestag in Mainz on October 26, 2007, he left the Presidium of the DFB after reaching the age limit. Instead, he took on tasks on the Board of Trustees of the Sepp Herberger Foundation and the DFB Cultural Foundation.

Awards

Schmidhuber was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany on April 1, 2007 for his numerous services to football, his commitment in social areas, local politics and the savings bank system, as well as his contribution to the design of the successful 2006 World Cup ; he had already received the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class in 1993. He has been an honorary citizen of the city of Waldkirchen since 1996 and received the Bavarian Order of Merit in the same year . Schmidhuber also received the badge of honor in gold with silver laurel leaf from the Bavarian State Sports Association (2000) and the sports award from the Bavarian Prime Minister (2003). He is the first honorary president of the Bavarian Football Association (2004) and honorary member of the German Football Association.

literature

Egon M. Binder, Christian Falk: Heinrich Schmidhuber: Bavarian diplomat in politics, sport and business . SüdOst Verlag, Waldkirchen, 2010, ISBN 978-3-89682-195-9 .

Web links

• Heinrich Schmidhuber in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History