Horst Steiner

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Horst Steiner is a German basketball official .

Life

Horst Steiner, whose father Karl founded the Steiner-Optik company in 1947 , was president of the TTBG Steiner-Optik Bayreuth table tennis club from 1970 . He ran the association together with his younger brother Carl , who held the office of Vice President. Horst Steiner worked full-time as a tax consultant; he had renounced the management of the Steiner-Optik company.

From 1984 the Steiner brothers also got involved in the basketball club Olympia USC Bayreuth , which was subsequently merged with the table tennis club. The team name was later changed to BG Steiner-Optik Bayreuth and then to Steiner Bayreuth. The family company Steiner-Optik was the main sponsor of Bayreuth basketball players. The association's office was set up in Horst Steiner's tax consulting office. Under the leadership of the Steiner brothers, the team advanced to the top of German basketball and became DBB Cup winners in 1988 and German champions and cup winners in 1989. In 1988 Carl and Horst Steiner were awarded the Bayreuth Medal in silver by Lord Mayor Dieter Mronz . In 1990 Horst Steiner retired from the management of the basketball team for professional reasons, as he expanded his field of business to include East Germany after the end of the GDR ; his brother Carl took over the presidency at Steiner Bayreuth.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steiner Bayreuth: Myth from the Province . In: Spiegel Online . December 16, 2008 ( spiegel.de [accessed April 28, 2019]).
  2. ↑ German master - his name is Steiner . In: BBC Bayreuth Spielbetrieb GmbH (ed.): HOT magazine . tape 6 . Bayreuth November 2013, p. 38 .
  3. ↑ a b Dino Reisner: Because the BG Steiner-Optik dominated the 2nd Bundesliga South . In: 111 reasons to love Medi Bayreuth: A declaration of love to the greatest basketball city in the world . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-86265-770-4 , pp. 70-72 .
  4. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk Wolfram Porr: Basketball in Bayreuth: Everything started as Post SV . April 27, 2017 ( br.de [accessed April 28, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Annual reviews from 1948 for the city of Bayreuth. In: Bayreuth City Archives. Retrieved April 28, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Basketball myth Bayreuth: Stony path . In: Spiegel Online . December 17, 2008 ( spiegel.de [accessed April 29, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Steiner, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball official
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century