Karl-Heinz Heimann

Karl-Heinz Heimann (born December 20, 1924 in Östrich , Westphalia, † July 13, 2010 ) was a German sports journalist .

Life

Heimann grew up in Falkensee in Brandenburg and attended high school and high school. He was an active footballer first in his Brandenburg home with Germania Seegefeld , VfL Nauen and Spandauer SV , and later in West Germany for TSV Detmold . He was also an active hockey and handball player at the Falkensee clubs TSV Falkensee and SC Siemens Falkensee. Heimann served as a soldier in World War II and was taken prisoner by the Soviets, from which he was released after four and a half years. He studied at the First German School of Journalism, which was founded in Aachen, after which he worked for the Aachener Nachrichten and also for the kicker in the Aachen area. Heimann has been a permanent employee of the kicker since 1952 and was involved in the organization of reporting on the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland from the very beginning . From 1968 to 1988 he was editor-in-chief of the magazine. He introduced the rating grades for the players and was the inventor of the goal scorer cannon . From 1988 Heimann was the editor of kicker and was known for his column entitled “Headlights”.

In 2004 he received the citizen medal of the city of Nuremberg , where he was domiciled. He also received the FIFA Order of Merit in Gold in 1992 and the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon, and in 2003 the Gold Medal of Honor with Diamond from the German Football Association . In 1987 he was awarded the Golden Ball of the Brazilian Sports Press and became an honorary member of the Association of German Sports Journalists . He retired on December 31, 2009. In 2010 he was posthumously awarded the “Bundesliga Prize of Honor”. Heimann was honored for his diverse journalistic services to do with professional football.

Heimann died on the night of July 13, 2010 after a short, serious illness, one day before the 90th anniversary of kicker , which he had helped to shape for 57 years. An obituary said about him: "Heimann consistently rejected sensational journalism and created that incorruptible kicker style that made the magazine compulsory reading for countless fans for nine decades."

Web links

• On the death of Karl-Heinz Heimann. We will never forget him . Obituary of the kicker, July 15, 2010
• Literature by and about Karl-Heinz Heimann in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prizes of honor from the Bundesliga for coach Ottmar Hitzfeld and the former "kicker" boss Karl-Heinz Heimann ( Memento of the original from January 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dated August 18, 2010 
2. ↑ Peter Hübner: Death of a "kicker" primeval rock ( Memento of the original from January 31, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Report on news.de from July 13, 2010