Heinz Bandke

Heinz Bandke (born August 22, 1930 in Stuttgart ) is a former German sports functional . From 1975 to 2002 he was chairman of the supervisory board of VfB Stuttgart , for which he had previously been a member of the board since 1970.

After his school days, Bandke completed an apprenticeship as a Württemberg district notary and then successfully passed the final exam in the state notarial course at the Württemberg notary school. After working for two years in a Stuttgart notary's office, Heinz Bandke started working for an insurance company in asset management in the capital of Baden-Württemberg in 1957. After a promotion to head of department in July 1960 and the transfer of procuration in December 1964, he became department director there in 1969. Heinz Bandke was director at SV SparkassenVersicherung for over thirty years . In his youth, Bandke played as a right back at SV Vaihingen. As a B-youth, however, he had to give up active football due to heart problems.

Worked at VfB Stuttgart

Heinz Bandke joined VfB Stuttgart in 1968 and became a member of the association's statute committee. In 1970, Bandke became a board member at VfB and was responsible for signing contracts. When Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder took over from Hans Weitpert as club president in 1975 , Heinz Bandke Mayer-Vorfelder took over the previous role as chairman of the board of directors. After Bandke, as chairman of the supervisory body, which from 1996 was officially no longer called the board of directors but the supervisory board, had previously supported most of President Mayer-Vorfelder's decisions, the relationship of trust between the chairmen of the two most important association bodies was destroyed towards the end of the 20th century.

Because the club had run into financial difficulties due to the transfer policy of Mayer-Vorfelder and his confidante Ulrich Schäfer , the supervisory board of VfB Stuttgart, chaired by Bandke Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder, expressed mistrust in June 1999 and made it clear that Mayer would try - To be re-elected in the following year, not to support. With Hansi Müller , Heinz Bandke established a counterweight to Mayer-Vorfelder on the VfB board in September of the same year. In February 2000, Bandke Mayer-Vorfelder publicly recommended that he choose the office of president at the DFB so that a new club president could officially be found.

With his previous supervisory board colleague Manfred Haas , Heinz Bandke, who was appointed honorary member in the same year for his services, pushed through his desired solution in the election of the new club president of VfB Stuttgart in October 2000. Bandke had won Haas in 1993 through his contacts with his former employer, SV SparkassenVersicherung , for the VfB supervisory board and a commitment by SparkassenVersicherung as a sponsor of the association. In 2001 he was actively involved in the commitment of Rolf Rüssmann as the successor to the resigned sports director Karlheinz Förster . In the run-up to the general meeting in 2002, Bandke announced that after 27 years as chairman of the supervisory board, he would no longer run for election to the supervisory board. Dieter Hundt became Bandke's successor. Because under him, as chairman of the supervisory board of VfB Stuttgart, remuneration was paid to Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder, the Stuttgart public prosecutor's office searched Heinz Bandke's house in May 2002 in the course of investigations against the former VfB president Mayer-Vorfelder. A year later, the public prosecutor stated that Bandke had not found any willful misconduct.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} The new board members: Heinz Bandke, 3rd chairman . In: VfB Stuttgart (ed.): Tip top - magazine for sports fans of VfB Stuttgart . Belser Verlag, August 1970, p. 20 .
2. ^ ^{A b} VfB supervisory board chairman Heinz Bandke celebrated his 70th birthday . In: VfB Stuttgart (Hrsg.): Club news - The club magazine for members of VfB Stuttgart 1893 e. V. October 4, 2000, p. 3 .
3. ↑ Heinz Bandke celebrated his 80th birthday . In: VfB Stuttgart (Ed.): Stadion aktuell . 29 August 2010, p. 48 ( vfb.de [PDF]).
4. ↑ ^{a b} Supervisory boards in the Bundesliga. kicker, May 8, 2000, accessed July 31, 2012 . 
5. ^ New attacks against DFB President Mayer-Vorfelder. Die Welt, October 31, 2002, accessed July 31, 2012 . 
6. ↑ An association accounts. the daily newspaper, October 31, 2002, accessed on July 31, 2012 . 
7. ↑ Decision for the DFB is the best solution. German Press Agency, February 18, 2000, accessed on July 31, 2012 . 
8. ^ Rüssmann before moving to VfB Stuttgart. Sports Information Service, January 28, 2001, accessed July 31, 2012 . 
9. ^ Crisis mood at VfB Stuttgart. rp-online.de, June 6, 2002, accessed July 31, 2012 . 
10. ↑ The Mayer-Vorfelder case burdens VfB Stuttgart. Die Welt, May 17, 2002, accessed July 31, 2012 . 
11. ↑ "MV" has to pay. n-tv, October 17, 2003, accessed July 31, 2012 .