Willi Steinhof

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Willi Steinhof (born August 16, 1879 in Braunschweig ; † February 9, 1967 there ) was a German football player , athlete and sports official .

career

Steinhof first played for FC Brunsviga 1896 Braunschweig , the football club of the ducal teachers' college in Braunschweig. After the dissolution of FC Brunsviga in 1901, he joined the FuCC Eintracht Braunschweig together with numerous other former members . With the Eintracht Steinhof took part in the final round of the German soccer championship 1904/05 and was used there in all three games of his club. At the age of 30, he ended his active career, but remained in the club as a football and athletics coach.

In addition to football, Steinhof was also active in athletics, where he competed as a short and medium-distance runner . In 1898 he got his first victory in the 500 meter run, in 1908 he ran a German record in the 3 × 1000 meter relay together with Johannes Runge and Edmund Beber. At the German athletics championships in 1904 , Steinhof took second place in the 400-meter run.

Activity as a sports official

Already as an active player, Steinhof was a functionary in the football association for the Duchy of Braunschweig and later in the North German Football Association (NFV), and at the age of 26, he also became the second chairman of Eintracht Braunschweig. From 1919 to 1920 he was the first chairman of Eintracht.

In 1919 Steinhof became head of department at the German University for Physical Education in Berlin . From 1928 to 1933 he was an assessor at the German Sports Authority for Athletics . After the reorganization of sport in the Third Reich , he was appointed chairman of the Braunschweig district in the German (later National Socialist) Reichsbund for physical exercises , and he also held the post of football specialist for Lower Saxony and Bremen .

Fonts

  • Athletics: technique and methodology. Georg Westermann, Braunschweig 1926.

literature

  • Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005. 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society.
  • Horst Bläsig, Alex Leppert: A red lion on the chest - The story of Eintracht Braunschweig. 2nd updated edition, Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89533-675-1 .
  • Kurt Hoffmeister : 150 Years of Sport in Braunschweig , Braunschweig 1982, ISBN 3-87884-018-7 , p. 129 f.
  • Kurt Hoffmeister: Time travel through Braunschweig's sports history: 180 years of gymnastics and sport in Braunschweig. Braunschweig 2010, p. 58. ( online )
  • Stefan Peters: Eintracht Braunschweig. The Chronicle. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 1998, ISBN 978-3-89609-152-9 .
  • Ulrike Pollmann: In fresh energy and self-confident ... 100 years of Eintracht Braunschweig . Verlag Michael Kuhle, Braunschweig 1995, ISBN 3-923696-72-8 , p. 27 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Club games Willi Steinhof on spox.com, accessed on February 22, 2013.
  2. ↑ Eintrachtler at German championships on eintracht.com, accessed on April 2, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Steinhof, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player, track and field athlete and sports official
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1967
Place of death Braunschweig