Rudi Scherer becomes Honorary President of ASV Dachau for life

Created: 07/14/2022, 18:05

The new honorary members of ASV Dachau: BLSV district chairman Günther Dietz, Hermann Stepper, Ernst Konwitschny, honorary president Rudolf Scherer and Franz Xaver Vieregg (from left) Ernst Burgmair is missing in the picture.

Photo: Herzum © Herzum

ASV Dachau celebrated a special evening of honor and honored members who have been loyal to the association for 50, 60, 70, 75, 80 and even 85 years.

Dachau - The well-filled ASV theater hall showed that the association does not only exist in the membership card.

Almost all those invited appeared for an entertaining evening, which, in addition to merits and successes, also revealed many entertaining anecdotes from the club life of the honorees.

Many referred to the numerous friendships that developed through the club: "You have to thank ASV for your loyalty to the club," emphasized Albrecht Streller, who has been active in the handball department for 50 years.

"Thank you for this family, for the many friends!"

ASV Dachau presents certificates, badges of honor and vouchers

The ASV supervisory board chairman, Hans Schwarz, together with Ernst Konwitschny, the organizer of the evening, presented all long-standing members with certificates and vouchers as thanks and awards.

For the members who have been with the association for more than 60 years, there was also a certificate and a badge of honor from the BLSV, which Günter Dietz presented as its district chairman.

The deputy ASV chairman Ingrid Sedlbauer presented Mandy Merwerth and Annette Buchhaupt with the bronze medal for ten years as a trainer, and Konrad Hipfner received the plaque in silver for 20 years as a functionary in the tennis department.

In addition to the 16 "Fuchzigers", 18 members have had their 60th or 65th club anniversary in the past two years.

Another eleven members can look back on 70 and 75 years with the ASV, including Rudolf and Rosmarie Rieger, who also led gymnastics groups at the ASV for over 60 years.

Heinrich Salvermoser was honored for 80 years of ASV membership, and Johann Lang received a standing ovation from those present: The 99-year-old has been an ASV player for 85 years, "and he still knows who plays or has played in which team". , Jürgen Betz emphasized as a long-standing department head of the ASV handball team, to which Lang has belonged since 1936.

Hans Meister was five years longer than Lang at the ASV, who unfortunately did not live to see the evening of honor like four other anniversaries.

"But he still received the certificate and the pin for 90 years of membership in the club, and that meant a lot to him," Ernst Konwitschny recalled.

Rudi Scherer is the first honorary president of ASV Dachau

After the first emotional high point, four new honorary members were appointed and the first honorary president of the ASV, Rudi Scherer, who was also celebrated with standing ovations.

First, Herrmann Stepper was made an honorary member, who headed the athletics department of the ASV for 31 years: "I'm sure nobody will top that," joked Blacky Schwarz as the current head of athletics and referred to another best performance by his predecessor, the difficult one is to be topped: Since Stepper helped bring the folk festival competitions to life in 1973, he has not been absent from any edition.

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Ernst Konwitschny, who, like his two long-standing colleagues on the Management Board and later on the Supervisory Board, Ernst Burgmair and Franz Xaver Vieregg, was made an honorary member, also moved a lot and helped make forward-looking decisions.

In 2018, this honorary board, chaired by Rudi Scherer, recommended to the general meeting that the statutes be changed to an association structure with a full-time board, supervisory board and delegates' meeting.

In the first supervisory board after 2018, this quartet was still involved in the fortunes of the association, but then no longer stood as a candidate at the delegates’ meeting in 2021.

"It was a good time here," said Rudi Scherer, summing up the work of the board, which he shaped as chairman for almost half of his officially 60 years at ASV.

As the son of long-time CEO Georg Scherer, he practically grew up at ASV. "When the stadium was being renovated, his favorite seat was right at the front of the truck," Blacky Schwarz, Scherer's successor as Chairman of the Supervisory Board, reported in the laudation.

The new Honorary President also contributed a childhood memory himself: “Previously, the awards ceremony always took place on Boxing Day, which for me as a ten-year-old was the most boring thing ever.

I've always wondered what's in it for them.

Today I know: it is a very charming way of saying thank you!”

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