Schlappekicker
| Schlappekicker campaign of the Frankfurter Rundschau e. V. |
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| purpose | Promotion of athletes who are in need through no fault of their own or sports clubs and initiatives that are particularly socially committed |
| Chair: | Arnd Festerling |
| Establishment date: | 1951 |
| Seat : | Frankfurt am Main |
| Website: | www.fr.de/schlappekicker |
Schlappekicker is the name of a club, a sponsorship campaign and a prize from the Frankfurter Rundschau sports department . The association has existed since 1951 and traditionally calls for donations for individual campaigns or projects every year. The Schlappekicker Prize has been awarded since 1998 to sports clubs and initiatives that are particularly committed to society. Until 2001, the Schlappekicker Christmas party for those in need took place with prominent guests from the sport.
Naming
In 1951, six years after the Second World War and the founding of the daily newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau (August 1, 1945) and two years after the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany, the aim was to give the planned association a name. On the one hand, it should show a connection to sport and its environment, but on the other hand it should also have a local connection to Frankfurt am Main and thus the headquarters of the Frankfurter Rundschau. The choice of the term Schlappekicker turned out to be almost ideal.
Players of the first division soccer team from Eintracht Frankfurt have been supported since the 1920s by the Frankfurt company J. & CA Schneider , which mainly produced slippers. The players were quickly given the nickname Schlappekicker, which is tinged with Frankfurt dialect, and soon all of the club's footballers were given a blanket. Slippers stand for slippers, table football for the footballers (see also: Stadion am Riederwald / Third Reich ).
Club name
Schlappekicker campaign of the Frankfurter Rundschau e. V. is the official name of the association that is registered at the Frankfurt am Main District Court.
Schlappekicker action
As a development association, the Schlappekicker campaign pursues charitable and benevolent purposes for the benefit of other tax-privileged corporations such as school development associations, sports clubs and welfare organizations as well as in the sense of the need for help according to § 53 AO for the care, support and care of athletes and people who are close to sport .
The Schlappekicker campaign has been supporting athletes in need since 1951, who (at that time initially due to the consequences of the war) got into a difficult life situation due to illness or accident. Prominent examples of this are the gymnast and multiple Hessen champion Christel Müller who died in 2017 and the gymnast, Hessen champion and multiple German champion Johannes Hablik , who died in 1979 and who are both paralyzed after accidents while doing gymnastics . Also supported by the Schlappekicker campaign were Peter Fischer, the former captain of the Hessian amateur football team, who played for many years in the Oberliga Hessen and had to abruptly end his career in 1995 after an operation because of a brain tumor, and Rüdiger Böhm, former youth coach of SV Darmstadt 98 and later, as a graduate of the soccer teacher examination, also in the service of Karlsruher SC, which was run over by a truck as a cyclist in Darmstadt in 1997, so that both legs had to be amputated.
Patron
The long-time patron of the Schlappekicker campaign was the honorary captain of the German national soccer team, Fritz Walter . Today it is the Bundesliga record player Charly Körbel .
Board of Directors
The former head of press of the German Football Association (DFB), Harald Stenger , who held the office from 1998 to 2001, was the long-standing board member of Schlappekicker . In the past u. a. Schlappekicker founder and FR sports director Erich Wick or his successor Bert Merz holds this office. Since April 26, 2017 FR editor-in-chief Arnd Festerling has been the chairman of the Schlappekicker campaign. Harald Stenger has been involved in Schlappekicker again since April 2017 and is one of the two deputy chairmen.
Donations
Since Schlappekicker was founded, donations of more than (the equivalent of) two million euros have been raised.
Special fundraising campaigns
Dresdner Bank came up with a very special contribution in 1978. For many years she paid first 30 D-Mark and later 20 euros into the Schlappekicker account for goals from Bundesliga, second division and regional division clubs in the Rhine-Main area.
Donor
The Schlappekicker campaign lives from donations that it receives nationwide from sports fans, athletes and former athletes, from clubs, associations, companies and other institutions.
Schlappekicker Christmas party
The Schlappekicker Christmas party, which has been held annually since 1951, has been the heart of the campaign for five decades. First of all, it was mainly elderly and needy people who were given gifts and donations, etc. a. for a rent or heating cost subsidy. Every year prominent athletes were guests at the Christmas party: At first the national coaches Sepp Herberger, Helmut Schön and Jupp Derwall, national team honorary captains Fritz Walter and Uwe Seeler, former Eintracht idols such as Alfred Pfaff, Richard Kress and their Kickers counterpart Hermann Nuber or Olympic participants and World Cup stars like Heinz Ulzheimer, Armin Hary and Rudi Altig. Later there were national team and Bundesliga greats such as Rudi Völler, Jürgen Grabowski, Bernd Hölzenbein, Franz Beckenbauer , Uli Hoeneß and Felix Magath. In a colorful, entertaining program by Hessian artists known from radio and television, the social responsibility of sport was always made clear.
Schlappekicker price
A new initiative of the Schlappekicker campaign was the promotion of sports clubs and initiatives that do exemplary social work and thus emphasize the social aspects of sport in their everyday life. Since 1998, the Schlappekicker Prize, endowed with (converted) 5000 euros, has been awarded annually in the Frankfurt Römer in the presence of many prominent guests. In addition, since 1998, as part of an integrative sports festival in Frankfurt am Main, five and, most recently, only three individuals, groups or clubs have been awarded a cash prize because they are dedicated to integrative or disabled sports.
Possible criteria for awarding the Schlappekicker Prize are: introducing young people to voluntary work in the association, intensive work with the parents of children and young people, looking after children and young people or older people outside of sport, unusual or specific Sports offers such as integration projects, offers for girls or women, prevention and rehabilitation sports, sports for the overweight or the elderly.
Applications for the Schlappekicker Prize are accepted annually until September 30th. The decision on the annual winner is made by a five-person jury. a. the Olympic participants Cornelia Hanisch , Sylvia Schenk and Harald Schmid are seated.
Schlappekicker award winner
- 1998: Frankfurt Gymnastics Club 1860
- 1999: JSG Limeshain
- 2000: Sportgemeinschaft Sossenheim 1878 e. V.
- 2001: Post-Sportverein Blau-Gelb Frankfurt am Main e. V.
- 2002: Sportgemeinschaft Bornheim 1945 e. V. Green-White
- 2003: Gymnastics and Sports Club 1850/09 Korbach
- 2004: Handball game community Obertshausen / Heusenstamm
- 2005: Turnverein 1890 e. V. Breckenheim
- 2006: Theo Schätte, TSV Viermünden / Schreufa e. V.
- 2007: Wolfgang Malik, Boxing Club Nordend Offenbach e. V.
- 2008: Elke Tschirschnitz, Promotion in Psychomotorik Kindersport Wiesbaden e. V.
- 2009: Sunny Graff, Women in Motion e. V.
- 2010: Frankfurter Turnverein 1860 and Frankfurter Verein für Sozial Heimstätten
- 2011: Association for Fitness and Swimming (VFS) Rödermark
- 2012: Handball game community Weiterstadt / Braunshardt / Worfelden
- 2013: Self-Defense Association Rüsselsheim
- 2014: 1. FC Eschborn
- 2015: SV Eberstadt, soccer department
- 2016: SG Bornheim Green White
- 2017: FC Gudesding
- 2018: Kim-Chi Wiesbaden
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ History of Eintracht Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main ( Memento from March 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Statutes of the Schlappekicker-Aktion association of the Frankfurter Rundschau, Frankfurt am Main ( Memento from December 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Frankfurter Rundschau: FR relief campaign: The Schlappekicker has a new board . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . ( fr.de [accessed on October 28, 2017]).
- ↑ What we do, Schlappekicker-Aktion of the Frankfurter Rundschau, Frankfurt am Main ( Memento from December 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Schlappekicker Prize of the Frankfurter Rundschau, Frankfurt am Main ( Memento from February 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ "Schlappekicker Prize 2007 awarded", Frankfurter Rundschau, November 26, 2007 ( Memento from May 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ "Schlappekicker Prize 2008 awarded", Frankfurter Rundschau, December 1, 2008 ( Memento of May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ "Respect for Others", Frankfurter Rundschau, December 1, 2009
- ^ "Giving people new goals", Frankfurter Rundschau, February 2, 2011
- ^ "The somewhat different association work", Frankfurter Rundschau, November 20, 2011
- ^ "HSG makes children strong", Frankfurter Rundschau, December 6, 2012
- ↑ Christian Stör: Loud strong girls and women. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . November 30, 2013. Retrieved August 29, 2019 .
- ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau: Schlappekicker Prize: Overcoming boundaries together . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . ( fr.de [accessed on July 25, 2017]).
- ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau: Schlappekicker: Open doors . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . ( fr.de [accessed on July 25, 2017]).
- ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau: Schlappekicker Prize 2016: Kick to start a new life . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . ( fr.de [accessed on July 25, 2017]).
- ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau: FC Gudesding Frankfurt: A club that sets many good signals . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . ( fr.de [accessed on May 30, 2018]).
- ↑ Manuel Schubert: Point victory for the Schlappekicker. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . December 4, 2018, accessed August 29, 2019 .