Willi Lenz

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Willi Lenz in 2017

Wilhelm "Willi" Lenz (born January 15, 1950 in Körbecke ) is a managing director and sports official. He worked full-time for Paderborner Ahorn-Sportpark gGmbH from 1983 until his retirement age in 2015.

Life and work

Lenz was born as the first child of a long-established family of craftsmen in the old district of Warburg in East Westphalia . He graduated from school in 1968 with a technical college entrance qualification. After completing his military alternative service and one year internship at Nixdorf Computer AG began in 1971 at the University of Paderborn his studies of business administration .

In 1974 his professional career began as a business economist in the head office of Nixdorf Computer AG in Paderborn . After 10 years of different activities in the area of ​​Nixdorf corporate communications, Heinz Nixdorf entrusted him with the management of the Ahorn-Sportpark gGmbH, a 100% subsidiary of the Westfalen / Heinz Nixdorf Foundation, which he had recently established . Lenz helped build the Ahorn Sports Park and developed it into the largest multifunctional sports center in the region, with over 500,000 users annually.

athlete

Lenz was already competitive in athletics , table tennis and soccer as a teenager .

His passion, however, was football. In the summer of 1970, he moved as a talented defender from his club Sportfreunde Warburg 08 to Arminia Bielefeld, who was promoted to the Bundesliga at the time . After a year of training as a contract amateur, he moved from Bielefeld to Paderborn in the spring of 1971. Here he played parallel to his business administration studies at the then TuS Sennelager and the fusion club TuS Schloß Neuhaus in the third-class association league Westphalia . After five seasons he then played one more season (1976/77) with its local rivals 1. FC Paderborn . At the age of 27 and after a total of 143 third division games, he finally gave up his football boots in favor of his professional career.

After that, Lenz remained a part of regional sports. a. further connected as an active amateur / competitive athlete. He played tennis for a few years and then golf .

Initiatives

  • Initiator / co-founder of the “Computermuseum” working group. The aim should be the establishment of a computer museum, which u. a. includes the Nixdorf collection and the product history of Nixdorf Computer AG , later the HNF Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum
  • Initiator / co-founder of the Paderborn elite sport forum
  • Co-initiator of the special exhibition "Computer.Sport - Technology that moves"

engagement

  • From 1979 to 2017 Lenz coordinated the various Nixdorf sports funding measures on a voluntary basis and was a sports advisor to the board of the Westphalia Foundation .
  • In June 1991 he was the initiator and co-founder of ASC Paderborn. As the club's chairman, he led it in the first quarter of a century and developed it into one of the largest popular sports clubs in Paderborn.
  • From 1999 to 2006 Lenz was President of the Bad Lippspringe Golf Club

Honors

  • On January 10, 2014, the city of Paderborn recognized his longstanding achievements as a consultant, sponsor and initiator in many areas of Paderborn sports and honored him as an Honored Personality of Paderborn Sports .
  • On September 19, 2016, ASC Paderborn eV recognized the services of its founding member as well as the 25 years of honorary club chairmanship and at the same time made Lenz an ASC honorary member.

Willi Lenz Sports Foundation

The married couple Karin and Willi Lenz founded the Willi Lenz Sports Foundation on April 26, 2017 and promotes Paderborn sports through it.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Antje Dessel: Profiles of the Paderborn district. Volume 1: Citizens of Our Time. Verlag Peter Becker, Zittau 2006, ISBN 3-933322-86-3 , p. 205.
  2. ↑ Pahlsmeier and Brockmann succeed Willi Lenz. In: New Westphalian. April 21, 2015.
  3. ^ Kurt Bremer: Search for traces - Körbeck families and their family trees. Volume 2, Kurt Bremer, Telgte 2011, pp. 155–157.
  4. ^ Christian Berg: Heinz Nixdorf. A biography. (= Studies and sources on Westphalian history. Volume 82). Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2016, ISBN 978-3-506-78227-4 , pp. 222 and 228.
  5. ↑ Nixdorf project manager for the museum idea "Computer Museum"
  6. ↑ On TV this week. Horst Danker: Married to the company? How the world of work shapes the attitude towards life. Broadcast on ZDF on August 7, 1979. In: Spiegel online. August 6, 1979.
  7. ↑ Volker Werb: Heinz Nixdorf. The sportsman and promoter of sport. A piece of biography. Schöningh, Paderborn / Munich / Vienna / Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-506-71330-8 , pp. 505 and 515-530.
  8. ^ Wiebke Lamprecht, Marie-Luise Klein: Paderborn Sports History. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn / Munich / Vienna / Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-506-74511-5 , p. 146f.
  9. ^ Website of the Westphalia Foundation / Heinz Nixdorf Foundation
  10. ↑ The team of the Bundesliga soccer team Arminia Bielefeld gathers for the team photo before the 1970/71 season.
  11. ↑ A tough year of apprenticeship with Arminia. In: New Westphalian. October 21, 2009.
  12. ↑ Special exhibition "Computer.Sport - Technology that moves" in Paderborn.
  13. ↑ Brockmann follows Lenz. Change of leadership at Bad Lippspringe Golf Club. In: Westfalen Blatt. February 27, 2006.
  14. ^ Salary for a pillar of the sports city Paderborn. In: New Westphalian. January 12, 2014.
  15. ↑ Ahorn sports and leisure club under new management.
personal data
SURNAME Lenz, Willi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lenz, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports official and founder
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Baskets