Walther Seinsch

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Walther Seinsch (born October 21, 1941 in Mayen ) is a German entrepreneur and football official. From November 2000 to December 3, 2014 he was chairman of the board of the soccer club FC Augsburg , and since 2016 he has been a board member of the third division club SC Preußen Münster .

Life

After eight years of schooling, Walther Seinsch completed an apprenticeship as a tax consultant and then worked in construction and as a factory worker. In a commercial career he was promoted to managing director at Kaufhof . He left there as a manager and created a group of five women's clothing stores with his wife under the name Ingrid S. The stores were later incorporated into a company called Modea Bekleidungsmarkt GmbH , from which Takko would emerge. At the beginning of the 1990s, the Tengelmann Group joined Takko . Walther Seinsch left the company he co-founded in 1996. At that time it had 240 Takko specialty stores and 90 Ingrid S. stores. He became managing director at KiK until 1998 , where he held a ten percent stake. Then he decided to sell them and retired from the profession. He moved to Lake Constance with his family.

Social Commitment

In 1996 Walther Seinsch and his wife established the Lindau Remembrance Foundation . With this foundation, they want to help to process the time of National Socialism historically and scientifically. The foundation has been awarding the Marion Samuel Prize annually since 1999 in order to commemorate the Jewish children murdered during National Socialism. The prize has been awarded in Augsburg (formerly Berlin ) since 2007 .

Walther Seinsch is a member of the advisory board of the Association Against Forgetting - For Democracy .

Engagement in football

At a young age, Walther Seinsch played as an amateur soccer player for SG Telgte in Münsterland. Seinsch already showed ambitions as a football official in the 1990s: in 1994 he ran for president of FC Schalke 04 , but withdrew his application during the selection process. In 1999, Seinsch intended to join SSV Reutlingen 05 with the aim of building a stadium there for at least 35,000 spectators and promoting the club financially and thus athletically. When the city did not comply with his demands, he ended his commitment from one day to the next.

In 2000 he came to Augsburg to take on what was then the fourth division club FCA . As chairman of the board of FC Augsburg, he developed the goals of promotion to the 1st Bundesliga and the construction of a new soccer arena, the Impuls Arena meanwhile WWK Arena ( called Augsburg Arena in the planning phase ) for FC Augsburg. This was to replace the Augsburger Rosenaustadion as the home stadium of the FCA , because due to its age and its design it was only suitable for modern Bundesliga soccer to a limited extent. The new stadium sought by Seinsch opened on July 26, 2009. At that time the football club had worked its way up to the 2nd Bundesliga .

On May 8, 2011, the promotion of FC Augsburg to the first division after a 2-1 win against FSV Frankfurt on the penultimate match day of the season was de facto established and became reality on the last match day. It was the greatest sporting success of the FCA during the presidency of Walther Seinsch.

On July 18, 2011, Seinsch announced that he would remain chairman of FC Augsburg despite his poor health. He announced his resignation on December 3, 2014 at the annual general meeting of FC Augsburg, naming Vice President Klaus Hofman as the successor candidate .

On June 5, 2015 it became known that Seinsch was pushing a stadium expansion at the third division club SC Preußen Münster , but was unable to assert himself with his ideas and demands in the club and the city. Since October 13, 2016, Seinsch has been a board member at SC Preußen Münster, where he is responsible for sporting matters and the stadium expansion.

Engagement in politics

In 2007, Seinsch had decided to run for a candidate on the city council list of the electoral association “Pro Augsburg” in the 2008 local elections and was placed sixth there. From the voters he received a mandate for the city council, whose term of office began on May 1, 2008. At the end of September he retired from politics. He justified this with health reasons.

In July 2007, a difference of opinion between Seinsch and the city ​​of Augsburg on the question of his main residence became public because the wife was only registered in Lindau . The legal reporting conflict was settled out of court in August. Ingrid Seinsch had registered with a secondary residence in Augsburg.

As a privateer, Seinsch maintains his own blog, weltbuerger.de, on which, according to his own statement, he passionately devotes himself to “politics, business, society and not to forget football”.

author

His book Verbrecher-Kartei (about bankers, managers and politicians) was published on December 3, 2014 by Hess Verlag; Seinsch designed the foreword as a whimsical curriculum vitae. In 2015 he published a book on the Putin Phobia of the West, advertised by Gernot Facius and Rudolf Grulich .

Awards

Walther Seinsch was made an honorary citizen of Augsburg in 2015 according to a unanimous city council resolution.

Familiar

In 1962 Walther Seinsch married an Italian. He is married to Ingrid Seinsch for the second time and has nine children, six of whom are adopted. He lived in Telgte near Münster for many years . At the beginning of 2010, Seinsch announced that he was suffering from depression and was taking a break in the interests of health. He gave up his main residence in Augsburg and retired to Lindau or Münster (Westphalia).

Web links

Commons : Walther Seinsch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walther Seinsch. Author. JKFischer Verlag, accessed on May 5, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Heike Baier: What does ... Walther Seinsch actually do . TextilWirtschaft.de of July 13, 2000, requested on May 27, 2010
  3. ↑ Walter Sianos: What does Walther Seinsch actually do. In: Official website of FC Augsburg. September 30, 2019, accessed May 5, 2020 .
  4. ↑ www.augsburger-allgemeine.de: Seinsch wants to remain chairman and gives Luhukay a job guarantee. July 18, 2011, accessed July 18, 2011 .
  5. ^ Augsburg: Farewell after 14 years. Seinsch resigns as FCA President . kicker.de, December 3, 2014
  6. ↑ FCA boss Seinsch resigns - Hofmann becomes his successor . Augsburger Allgemeine, December 3, 2014
  7. ↑ Alexander Heflik: Seinsch gives Münster hope for a new stadium on Hammer Strasse. In: Westfälische Nachrichten. June 5, 2015, accessed May 5, 2020 .
  8. ↑ kicker online, Nuremberg, Germany: Strässer is the new Münster President - Seinsch has big plans . In: kicker online . October 13, 2016 ( kicker.de [accessed October 14, 2016]).
  9. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine of July 11, 2007 p. 42
  10. ^ Announcement of the Augsburger Allgemeine from September 28, 2008
  11. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine from August 31, 2007
  12. ↑ Who is writing here? - world citizens. Retrieved on May 4, 2018 (German).
  13. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine of November 29, 2014
  14. ↑ FAZ, November 14, 2015, p. 6.
  15. ↑ Walther Seinsch becomes an honorary citizen. Augsburger Allgemeine, online edition from December 18, 2014
  16. ↑ Martin Augsburger: Walther Seinsch made an honorary citizen. In: StadtZeitung Augsburg. March 28, 2015, accessed May 5, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine of November 26, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Seinsch, Walther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Mayen