Philipp Heineken (sports official)

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Philipp Heineken (born July 25, 1873 in Morrisania near New York ; † February 8, 1959 in Zuffenhausen ) was a German sports pioneer and himself as a football and rugby player at the Cannstatter Football Club and the FV Stuttgart 1893 , a predecessor of VfB Stuttgart , active. In addition to rugby and football, other lawn sports such as golf were also among the disciplines that Philipp Heineken helped establish in Germany.

In his work The Most Popular Lawn Games , published in 1893, Heineken described the rules and style of numerous lawn games. In 1890 he was one of the founders of the Cannstatter football club . Heineken was also involved in the founding of FV Stuttgart 1893 on September 9, 1893 , which merged into VfB Stuttgart in 1912 . Heineken later referred to the Cannstatter Wasen as the birthplace of German rugby . Shortly afterwards, after a dispute over a report he had published, he left the Cannstatter football club and joined the FV Stuttgart in 1893 as an active member. When the German Football Association was founded in 1900, Heineken became the association's first vice president. His grave is preserved in the Steigfriedhof in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt.

Fonts

  • Memories of the Cannstatter football club. Hermann Meister, Heidelberg 1930.
  • The most popular lawn games: A compilation of the main English outdoor games for the purpose of introducing them to Germany. Gustav Weise Verlag, Stuttgart 1893.
  • Lawn tennis: its history and tactics. Gustav Weise Verlag, Stuttgart 1900.
  • The game of golf. Weise, Stuttgart 1898. Reprint: Schäfer, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-88746-290-4 .
  • The football game. Association and rugby. Weise, Stuttgart 1898. Reprint: Schäfer, Hannover 1993, ISBN 3-88746-306-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pennäler-Golf anno 1890: A historical plea for the youth in golf on golf.de, accessed on August 2, 2016
  2. ^ Philipp Heineken: Memories of the Cannstatter Soccer Club. Verlag Hermann Meister, Heidelberg 1930. p. 18.
  3. ↑ Gerd Krämer: Founding years. In: 100 years of VfB. Stuttgart 1992. p. 28.
  4. ^ Philipp Heineken: Memories of the Cannstatter Soccer Club. Hermann Meister Verlag, Heidelberg 1930. p. 41.
  5. ↑ A football pioneer from Bad Cannstatt founded VfB on Stuttgarter Nachrichten, accessed on August 2, 2016
  6. ↑ Steigfriedhof # graves
personal data
SURNAME Heineken, Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Morrisania near New York
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1959
Place of death Zuffenhausen