Jean Löring

John " Jean " Löring ( born August 16, 1934 in Cologne, † March 6, 2005 ) was a German patron and long-time president of the SC Fortuna Köln.

Career

Hans Löring, the Jean Löring called himself and was known by that name, was called by many people of Cologne, De Schäng. According to the medium maturity, he learned electrician and brought it to the master electrician. He played after his training as a professional footballer. Between July 1955 and June 1957 he was back at Prussia Dellbrueck, July 1957 to June 1961 in the follow- SC Viktoria Köln 04, July 1961 to June 1962 at Alemannia Aachen. In July 1962, the defender ended his active career because of hip injury. He later built a company from 9 existing corporate empire whose core from the Hans Löring ELRO electrical and piping GmbH ( with 300 employees in 1973 ) consisted. The well-organized business empire was his main source of income. Between 1966 and 2001 he took over the post of president of SC Fortuna Köln that every 2 years promotion to the next higher league under his presidency of the district league.

Economic and sporting ascent

On May 13, 1973 he reached the summit with Fortuna Köln in the Bundesliga. However, for this the club rose after a year off again, with Löring three games long acted as a coach even after the separation of Volker Kottmann and before the commitment of Willi Holdorf. At least 5 times he took during his presidency the office as a football coach or interim coach.

He earned the early 1970s by the Duerener industrialist family Hoesch a castle-like property in Rath ( Düren ), which was already used for representative purposes and many lavish parties at the Bundesliga promotion in 1973. Alone in 1973, he financed the club has around 2.5 million marks, and led some of his football players on the payroll of his company. In 1975 he acquired through the mediation of his friend and Cologne finance broker Herbert Ebertz shares in the Dorint hotels at that time ailing. He built in 1978 opposite Cologne Südstadion - the home game stadium of his club football - an indoor tennis center at the Vorgebirgstrasse, in the building's offices and the club house "Bacchus" were housed. At that time, the Südstadion opposite was under renovation. After re- descent Fortuna played 26 years continuously in the second division. The chance of revival was in 1986 in the relegation matches against Borussia Dortmund ( 2:0, 1:3, 0:8 ) awarded.

Greatest sporting achievements of fortune under his presidency was the entry into the DFB Cup final against 1 FC Cologne on 11 June 1983, at first pure derby (list of DFB Cup finals ), which was lost 0-1 in Mungerdorferstadion. Löring called the Fortuna happy when his Vereinche, his commitment as the largest patron of the association cost him over the years, an estimated 15 million euros. Löring created with countless volunteers, the largest youth department of the DFB. Today's Fortuna could get this largest private welfare center for Cologne and even expand.

Descent

Jean Löring wrote about the castle in 1996 to his wife Catherine " Kate " Löring (* 1934), but secured a permanent right of residence. He suffered a heart attack in 1997 and drew largely from the public gaze. In 1998 he separated from his wife Katherine. Since then Löring lived together with the entrepreneur Erika Wirtz. His biggest company ELRO kriselte from December 2000 and in May 2001 had allegedly DM 4.5 million tax debt. In May 2001, attended DM 1.2 million tax debt even with Fortuna Köln for a crisis, it came to the attachment (including a standing in the club house "Bacchus" pianos from 1885). Löring had invested over the years, an estimated 15 million euros as a patron in Fortuna. Among other things, the Cologne soccer idols and former national player Bernd Schuster and national goalkeeper Toni Schumacher trained early in their coaching career, Fortuna. Caused a stir Löring when he was in the half-time break of the game released Schumacher on 15 December 1999 against SV Waldhof Mannheim at the score of 0:2 (final score 1:5). In this context Löring to have replied to a journalist on the question of the sudden dismissal of Schumacher: "I had to react as a club ." Fortuna's debt continued to rise to 7 million DM, since 1 April 2001, the club was debt free by liquidation in bankruptcy. The Office of the Fortuna - President, he gave up on 13 June 2001.

Löring promoted the unsuccessful musical singer Yana Kris -Molina ( born 1968 in London), which left him during his financial crisis. Sparkasse Manager John Boehne, which had begun in 1962 at the Sparkasse Köln Bonn, took over in May 2001, the position of Managing Director at Fortuna Cologne. The castle with a living area of 608 sqm went into foreclosure in January 2003, the District Court Düren fixing its market value at 2.7 million euros and the creditor bank BAG Bankaktiengesellschaft from Hamm was awarded the contract. With the knock Löring had lost his land charges secured permanent residency because the capitalized at € 383,000 housing law was mitersteigert by the bank surcharge. The creditor bank in 2009 was prepared to allow an auction of pompously decorated castle for a minimum bid of € 995,000. Fortuna's second bankruptcy followed in January 2003, and a third could not be avoided.

Due to economic failure and persistent disease - his cancer was diagnosed in 1997 after a heart attack - and not least by his generosity for his club Löring was almost penniless in the last years of his life. Also, the club went without the longtime patron no longer good: Fortuna Köln fell to the fourth-rate league off and had there during the 2004/2005 season set the play mode for financial reasons, after the team throughout the season so far only three points on their had taken account. In February 2005, the team was withdrawn from the league of the Oberliga Nordrhein after the club had recently been made ​​the third bankruptcy.

On 6 March 2005, the longtime football president from the south of Cologne and "Last Patriarch " of German football, died penniless in Cologne hospice Dr.- Mildred - Scheel - home colorectal cancer. He is buried in the South Cemetery in Cologne -inch stick.