Wolfgang Holst

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Wolfgang Holst (born July 30, 1922 in Rostock , † December 10, 2010 in Berlin ) was a German football functional .

Holst actively played soccer with the clubs Rostock 99, VfJ 08 Paderborn and Hertha BSC (until 1962). He had been a member of Hertha since 1960. In 1972 Holst was also co-founder of what is now Hertha BSC's oldest fan club, the Hertha BSC Fan Club e. V. In 1962, he was elected to the board of Bundesliga club Hertha BSC as a match committee chairman. In 1969, the former Hertha President Hans-Georg Höhne accused Holst of having bribed the player Alfons Stemmer from 1860 Munich with 15,000 DM in 1964 in order to favorably influence a game against relegation that was decisive for Hertha. Holst sued unsuccessfully for omission and revocation of this claim. In its judgment, the Berlin Regional Court came to the conclusion that "the evidence has shown the truth of this allegation." In the course of the Bundesliga scandal , in which he was involved as a Hertha manager, he received a ban from the DFB from March 24, 1973 to March 23, 1978, but was pardoned on December 20, 1977. From November 29, 1979 to November 25, 1985 Holst was president of the association. In between he was also active for the club as a manager and vice-president. In 1994 he ran again unsuccessfully for the office of President of Hertha against Manfred Zemaitat .

Wolfgang Holst continued to devote all his commitment to Hertha BSC, although according to media reports, Holst's influence waned in the following years after Dieter Hoeneß built Hertha into a new brand with a lot of money. "Holst often argued with Hoeneß in public, but unlike the Swabian who was disempowered one and a half years ago, he never left the association." Wolfgang Holst continued to act as a successful mediator in the association and, among other things, appeased the opposition in 2009, the presidium wanted to fall.

Holst, who most recently was a member of the Hertha BSC Council of Elders, was honored with the association's badge of honor for 50 years of membership at Hertha BSC on November 30, 2010 at the general meeting.

On December 10, 2010, Holst was found dead in his apartment.

Trivia

Joachimsthaler Strasse 1–4, where the "Holst am Zoo" was located until it was closed on December 27, 2010 (remnants of the dismantled neon sign - lettering and glass of Berliner Kindl with football - can still be seen on the front).

For many years until 2002, Holst ran the Holst am Zoo restaurant in Berlin near the Zoologischer Garten train station , which was then taken over by Hans Weiner .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. kicker of July 31, 1997, p. 40
  2. Congratulations: Wolfgang Holst will be 80 today from Berliner Morgenpost from July 30, 2002
  3. ^ "Obituary Wolfgang Holst: The blue-gray Eminence", Der Tagesspiegel of December 10, 2010
  4. http://www.morgenpost.de/printarchiv/sport/article532359/Glueckwunsch_Wolfgang_Holst_wird_heute_80.html
  5. About Us , accessed October 16, 2013
  6. Berlin Regional Court , Civil Chamber 15, judgment of April 27, 1971, business number 15.0.25 / 69
  7. Holst takes action against Hoeneß according to bz-berlin.de from July 17, 2009 ( Memento from October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  8. http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/archiv/duell-zemaitat-kontra-holst-ging-bis-in-die-nacht-die-hertha-waehlte,10810590,8872444.html
  9. http://www.tagesspiegel.de/sport/hertha-bsc/nachruf-wolfgang-holst-die-blau-graue-eminenz/3601526.html Obituary Wolfgang Holst: Die blau-Grau Eminenz, Art. Tagesspiegel, 10. December 2010
  10. http://www.bz-berlin.de/archiv/wolfgang-holst-kann-man-nicht-einfach-ersetzen-article1061135.html "You can't just replace Wolfgang Holst", BZ, December 12, 2010
  11. ^ "The blog of the Berliner Morgenpost - obituary for Wolfgang Holst"
  12. "Hertha: Against the frost, against the phlegm", Tagesspiegel of December 2, 2010
  13. HERTHA BSC mourns ex-President Wolfgang Holst ( Memento from January 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive )