Waldemar Klein

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Graffiti in honor of Waldemar Klein

Waldemar Theodor Klein (born February 24, 1920 in Klein-Auheim ; † November 5, 2010 in Offenbach am Main ) was a German entrepreneur and football official. He was honorary president of the Kickers Offenbach football club .

Life

As a trained lithographer , he founded his own company in 1965, a wholesaler for the graphic industry. Since 1979 he was married to his wife Barbara for the second time. In 1954, Klein joined the Offenbacher Kickers as a member. He was elected president of the association from 1976 to 1980 through the positions of board of directors and vice-president , although he knew that the OFC debts in the millions. In 1984, when the Kickers were relegated from the First Bundesliga for the fourth time and the club was shaken by serious crises, he was president again until January 1987. The following year, Klein was named honorary president of the OFC. In 2001 the standing grandstand of the Kickers Stadium was renamed “Waldemar-Klein-Tribüne”.

Klein was involved in the discovery and promotion of players like Rudi Völler , Dieter Müller , Uwe Bein and Rudi Bommer . Rudi said Voeller at the inauguration of the Waldemar-Klein-Tribune: "I learned a lot of Percy, mainly the behavior outside the stadium." In 2004 he was the for his commitment to children with cancer and people with disabilities Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class conferred . On August 31, 2008 he received the Hessian Order of Merit .

On June 19, 2009, Klein suffered a heart attack while giving a speech and had to be reanimated by the emergency doctor. He died on November 5, 2010 in a clinic in Offenbach am Main.

The forecourt in front of the Sparda-Bank-Hessen-Stadion , which was newly created in the course of the construction work, was christened Waldemar-Klein-Platz on March 16, 2012 by Mayor Horst Schneider .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fears about OFC honorary president Waldemar Klein. In: op-online.de . June 22, 2009, accessed September 3, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Take a deep breath at OFC: Small is better. In: op-online.de. June 25, 2010, accessed September 3, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Hettfleisch: Waldemar Klein: Red and White for a Lifetime. In: fr-online.de . November 7, 2010, accessed September 3, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Jörg Moll: Interview with Barbara Klein: “Now we have a piece of jewelery”. In: op-online.de. June 25, 2012, accessed September 3, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Klein, Waldemar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klein, Waldemar Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and football official
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Klein-Auheim
DATE OF DEATH 5th November 2010
Place of death Offenbach am Main