Karl Laue

Karl Laue (born July 27, 1906 in Limmer near Hanover , † December 22, 1968 in Barsinghausen ) was a German sports official . Former football - goalkeeper has especially in the fledgling years of the Federal Republic of Germany to promote the Lower Saxony Sports rendered outstanding.

Life

Born at the time of the German Empire , Karl Laue joined the sports club SV Limmer 1910 in the first year of the Weimar Republic in 1918 at the age of twelve , where he played as a football goalkeeper from 1922 to 1932. “A serious accident ” put an early end to his active sports career. But Laue remained loyal to his club, was elected chairman and chairman for football, which earned him the nickname " Kaiser Karl".

After the time of National Socialism and the end of the Second World War , Karl Laue founded the Lower Saxony Football Association (NFV) "after 1945" , which he then headed for more than two decades.

In the meantime, Laue worked from 1947 to 1952, initially as an assessor on the board of the Lower Saxony State Sports Federation, and then as its deputy chairman until 1968, the year of his death .

In the year the Federal Republic of Germany was founded in 1949, Karl Laue had campaigned for the Lower Saxony soccer team to be founded. Laue, the former a wholesale with wood wool for operation, later regretted his position as an elected chairman in 1955 by the Association of GmbH converted betting company :

"I already had so much anger and worries through the Toto that I can only say one thing today: I would never have met you."

At the end of 1955, Laue was drawn into the "Lower Saxony Toto Scandal ", an affair about money , power and confused connections, in which, among others, the Toto managing director Heinz Göing and the Upper Government Councilor Heinrich Hünecke, who was actually obliged to oversee the Lower Saxony Ministry of Education , and the former officer Karl-Heinz Finger were involved. Barely a year after the new version of the Lower Saxony Betting Act of 31 March 1955, the country had Lower Saxony can look into the Lower Saxony Totos deeper into the personnel structures: the tax investigation was allegedly to poaching by members of the sports club Hannover 96 information or other football clubs, the prosecutor turned on. A White vest probably retained only the chairman and "football president" Karl Laue: According to a report in the news magazine Der Spiegel in early 1956 of a sports official stressed, among other things, he had about the carbonless -Wettschein invented , but without losing any of his personal advantage to think.

"Kaiser Karl" initiated and tirelessly promoted the construction of the association's own sports facilities in the Fuchsbachtal near Barsinghausen , where a sports school , a large sports hall and a youth home were built next to the sports fields .

Karl Laue died in Barsinghausen in 1968.

Honors

• In 2003, the connecting route between Limmer and Davenstedt along the TSV Limmer sports facility was named in honor of the sports official in Karl-Laue-Weg .

literature

• Kurt Hoffmeister: pioneer - doer - winner of sport in Lower Saxony. 160 short portraits , Braunschweig, Wendentorwall 18: K. Hoffmeister, 1998, p. 60
• NN : Of course earned / NIEDERSACHSEN-TOTO. In: Der Spiegel , issue 1 from 1956, p. 29ff .; online (and downloadable there as a PDF document with photo prints of Heinz Göing and Heinrich Hünecke ), last accessed on January 18, 2014
• Dirk Böttcher : LAUE, Karl. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 223; online through google books
• Dirk Böttcher: Laue, Karl. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 387.

References and comments

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Dirk Böttcher: LAUE ... (see literature)
2. ↑ ^{a b c} N.N: Of course earned ... (see literature)
3. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Karl-Laue-Weg. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 57/58 (2003), Hahnsche Buchhandlung, p. 281; partly online via Google books
4. ↑ Thomas Ritzka (Responsible): History ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the page tsv-limmer.de , last accessed on January 18, 2014 
5. ↑ Note: Deviating from the information in the Hanover history sheets, TSV Limmer names November 11, 2006 , at the same time the anniversary year of Karl Laue's 100th birthday, as the date on which it was named.