Karl Rothmund

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Karl Rothmund (* 31 August 1943 in Langreder in Barsinghausen ) is a German local politician , former soccer - sports official and mayor of the city Barsinghausen.

Life

Karl Rothmund was born in the middle of World War II and lost his biological father in the war at the age of 17 months. The formative childhood experiences of the boy, whose mother remarried and gave birth to his stepbrother, included the soccer game on September 15, 1956 in the Lower Saxony stadium in Hanover, with the German national team losing 2-1 at home to the Soviet Union , as well as the maternal grandmother from Upper Silesia .

After completing secondary school , Karl Rothmund began an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk at Hanomag on April 1, 1960 . He then went through further training as a business economist and business interpreter in English before he worked his way up to managing director of the wholesale company Hannoverscher Röhrenhandel.

In 1972 Rothmund joined the CDU and began to get involved in local politics in Langreder. At the same time as the new town of Barsinghausen with its 18 districts was formed, he became a member of the town council for more than two decades. In 1976 he took over the chairmanship of the fire brigade committee of the Barsinghausen council. After his election as mayor, an office that he held for six years, he completed the basic fire brigade course as head of administration and took care of the installation of the historic fire engine in the entrance area of ​​City Hall I.

In 1982 Rothmund was elected to the Hanover district assembly, where he took over the vice-chairmanship of the CDU district assembly as deputy to Georg “Schorse” Beier. Also from 1982 and until 2001 he also worked as a member of the association assembly of the Greater Hannover Area Association . He was also a member of the administrative board of Stadtsparkasse Barsinghausen , a member of the administrative board of the Kreissiedlungsgesellschaft , a member of the advisory board of the Hanover Technology Center and a member of the supervisory board of Üstra Hannoversche Verkehrsbetriebe . In addition, he chaired the CDU Barsinghausen for many years. From 1986 to 1994 he worked as an honorary financial judge.

Meanwhile, at the age of 46, at the height of his professional career in 1989, Rothmund turned down the position offered to him as Chief Financial Officer of a mechanical engineering company with around 2500 employees, and in 1990, succeeding Otto Gereke, turned down the financially weaker offer of the administrative management of Lower Saxony Football Association (NFV) to take over. At least the management of the NFV sports hotel was linked to the new task. After the then NFV President Engelbert Nelle had assured him that he would have a free hand in economic activities, Rothmund moved into his office in Barsinghausen on July 1, 1990 on the 2nd floor of the administration building on Schillerstrasse. From there, he activated the network of relationships he had established in business for the football association and, in particular, activated the sponsorship for the NFV, which was hardly in use at the time .

Karl Rothmund initiated Barsinghausen's sponsorship of the 11th Panzer Reconnaissance Training Battalion based in Munster, deepened the town twinning with Mont-Saint-Aignan and, together with Udo Mientus, was a multiple source of ideas and sponsor of the Barsinghausen monastery mine . He was one of the co-founders of the Alte Zeche friends' association, the initiator of sports awards, co-initiator of the Langreder village community center and, together with Bernd Hecke, the organizer of the Barsinghauser table tennis championship. In addition, Rothmund initiated the school partnerships between the Cooperative Comprehensive School Barsinghausen and the all-day high school with the companies TRW and Bahlsen .

In 2005, Rothmund handed over the administrative management of the NFV to his successor Bastian Hellberg and has been President of the NFV since then and until 2017. At the same time, he worked from 2006 to 2018 as Vice President Finance of the North German Football Association and from 2007 to 2013 as Vice President of the German Football Association (DFB).

In Rothmund's tenure as DFB Vice President and Vice President in the NFV fell among other things

  • 1999 the new building of the guest house of the sports hotel;
  • the accommodation of the Polish national team in Barsinghausen for the 2006 World Cup ;
  • the management of the Hanover location during the FIFA Confederations Cup and the 2006 World Cup;
  • Head of the Wolfsburg site during the 2011 Women's World Cup ;
  • the construction of the Studio B54 fitness center in Barsinghausen;
  • the executive chairman of the DFB Foundation Egidius Braun ;
  • the chairman of the board of directors of the DFB-Stiftung Sepp Herberger ;
  • the establishment of the Robert Enke Foundation's office in Barsinghausen;
  • the deputy chairman of the board of the Robert Enke Foundation and
  • the development of the sports information system as a forerunner of the online results service in the DFB.

Only at the age of 75 and after the death of his wife, Karl Rothmund retired from professional life and resigned most of his honorary positions.

Honors

Up to his 75th birthday, Karl Rothmund had received the following awards, among others:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae Wolf Cash box: The horn of Lower Saxon football is slowly getting quieter / Karl Rothmund says goodbye .. . , Article on deister-journal.de from September 11, 2018, last accessed on April 25, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Rothmund, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician (CDU), mayor and football official
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Long-spoken