Liselott Linsenhoff

Liselott Linsenhoff (born August 27, 1927 in Frankfurt am Main ; † August 4, 1999 in Juan-les-Pins , France ), b. Schindling, was the daughter of Adolf Schindling and owner of the VDO Tachowerke and a German dressage rider .

Career

In addition to Josef Neckermann , Liselott Linsenhoff was the dominant dressage rider in Germany for decades. At the Olympic Equestrian Games in Stockholm in 1956 (the Olympic Games were held in Melbourne , but due to the entry regulations for horses in Australia the equestrian competitions had to take place in Europe ) she won the silver medal with the dressage team and the bronze medal in the individual.

At the Olympic Summer Games in Mexico City in 1968 , she and the team won the gold medal with her stallion Piaff , which she was to wear for the individual gold medal in Munich in 1972 . The success in Munich was rounded off by the silver medal with the team. So she was the first woman to win the Olympic gold medal in dressage in Munich. At the same time, at the age of 45 years and 13 days, she was the oldest Olympic gold medalist to date. In 1975 she ended her career.

Liselott Linsenhoff was married to Fritz Linsenhoff from 1950 to 1975 and was called Liselott Schindling again after their separation. In 1981 she married the entrepreneur Klaus Rheinberger and was then called Schindling-Rheinberger.

On September 12, 1990 she was awarded the Hessian Order of Merit. She had already received the Silver Laurel Leaf for her athletic achievements .

Her daughter Ann Kathrin Linsenhoff was one of the most successful German dressage riders until her health-related retirement from competitive sport in 2007 ( Lyme disease ).

The legacy for dressage is the Liselott Schindling Foundation for the promotion of German dressage equestrian sport. Every year u. a. the junior pony dressage rider championship (max. 16 year olds) is held. In addition, the Piaff Prize, named after their Swedish warm-blooded animal, will be ridden. Up to 25-year-olds ride in this series at top-class horse shows in Germany and the final in Stuttgart.

successes

singles

German championships

1st place: 1971

2nd place: 1966

3rd place: 1959, 1961, 1965

Bronze Olympic Games 1956

Vice World Champion 1970

European champions in 1969 and 1971

Gold Olympic Games 1972

team

Silver Olympic Games 1956 and 1972

Gold Olympic Games 1968

European champions in 1969, 1971 and 1973

Vice World Champion 1970

World Champion 1974

human and animal

A newspaper article caused a sensation in the course of an IG Metall campaign launched in 1962 and lasting around five years to increase the level of organization among the predominantly female employees at VDO. In this article, which the then IG Metall education specialist Hans Matthöfer , later Federal Minister under Helmut Schmidt , edited for the trade union company newspaper, a comparison was made between the “exemplary and extremely caring conditions” under which Liselott Linsenhoff her horses at Kronberg's Schafhof stud held, and the "shocking details of the all in all miserable conditions" under which the women on the assembly line at the Frankfurt-Bockenheimer VDO plant had to work.

Lex Linsenhoff

At the end of 1972, the entrepreneur moved to Rüthi in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen for tax reasons. According to Section 6 of the Foreign Tax Act (later known as "Lex Linsenhoff" ), she had to transfer 26 percent of her assets to the German tax office. The purpose of the law was to siphon off accumulated hidden reserves on the occasion of an emigration, which, if resident in Germany, would not have become due until the company was sold. After Liselott Linsenhoff returned a year later "for personal reasons", the question of a refund of millions already paid and a waiver of the remaining debt arose, which according to § 6 was only possible if "the termination of the unlimited tax liability was based on a temporary absence "and the taxpayer has been abroad for less than five years. The first criterion in the Linsenhoff case seemed dubious, which is why the dispute arose. In a judgment of July 17, 2008, the Federal Fiscal Court declared the law to be inapplicable, since German tax law is not based on a general "principle of unraveling". The later sale of the investment abroad would also trigger a taxation of capital gains, in which the difference between the original acquisition costs and the selling price is recognized, so that in these cases the capital gains could be partially double taxed, which contradicts the double taxation treaty.

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ^ "The great Olympia Lexicon", Sport-Bild from June 19, 1996, p. 42.
2. ↑ Werner Abelshauser : After the economic miracle. The trade unionist, politician and entrepreneur Hans Matthöfer . JHWDietz Nachf., Bonn 2009, p. 156 f, ISBN 978-3-8012-4171-1 .
3. ↑ Somewhat freehand DER SPIEGEL, October 21, 1974