Heinz Lindner (sports official)

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Heinz Lindner (born January 15, 1904 in Darmstadt , † March 18, 1982 in Seeheim-Jugenheim ) was a German football player, athlete, administrative officer and sports official .

Life

After graduating from the Justus-Liebig-Gymnasium in Darmstadt in 1922 , he did an apprenticeship in banking before studying economics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main from 1926 to 1930 . From 1933 he was a consultant at the foreign exchange office in Darmstadt and was transferred to the Reich Ministry of Economics in Berlin in 1942 as responsible for foreign exchange with Switzerland . From 1943 to 1945 he did military service and was wounded in the process. From August 1, 1945 he was employed as a councilor in the Darmstadt administrative district. From January 1946 he was deputy district administrator in the Bergstrasse district . After his term in office he returned to the district government in 1956 as a government director and in 1966 as a senior government director, where he retired in 1969. From 1920 to 1932 Lindner was active as a footballer and athlete at SV Darmstadt 98 . From 1929 on, he was also a sports manager for the Bergstrasse sports district. From 1935 on he was youth leader at SV 98 and Hitler Youth functionary for sporting youth work in the Gau. From 1939 on he was the (initially acting) leader of SV 98. In 1946 the American military administration commissioned him to invite people to a sports conference throughout Hesse. This founded the State Sports Association of Hesse on June 1, 1946 and elected him President, an office that he held for 34 years. From 1948 to 1950 he was chairman of the German Sport Working Group , the forerunner of the German Sports Federation . Since he had different ideas for the new German Sports Association, he was initially only elected as an assessor, but from 1954 to 1970 he was then Vice President of the German Sports Association and was significantly involved in the reorganization after 1968, which made Helmut Meyer from Darmstadt the Executive Director of the Federal Committee for Competitive Sports and was given a civil service position as a civil servant official of the regional council in Darmstadt.

Honors

  • 1969 Large Federal Cross of Merit
  • 1970 Honorary President of the State Sports Association of Hesse
  • 1983 The LSB Hessen awards the Heinz Lindner Prize for sport development every year

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Franz Nitsch (Ed.): Sport, Education and Democracy: Fifty Years “Sport for Everyone” in the State Sports Association of Hesse . Marburg: Schüren 1996.
  2. ↑ Peiffer, Lorenz [ed.]: The first unit: from the ADS to the DSB (1948–1950). (= Series of publications Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History, Vol. 7. Duderstadt: Mecke 1989.)
  3. ^ Arnd Krüger : Sport and Politics. From gymnastics father Jahn to state amateur. Hanover: Torchbearers 1975
personal data
SURNAME Lindner, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player, track and field athlete, administrative officer and sports official
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1982
Place of death Seeheim-Jugenheim