Walter Fink
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| Born | 16 August 1930 |
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| Awards | Federal Cross of Merit |
Walter Fink (born 16 August 1930) is a German retired executive and a patron of contemporary music. He is mostly known for being a founding member, Executive Committee member and sponsor of the Rheingau Musik Festival.
Walter Fink received piano instructions from age seven. In Frankfurt he took organ lessons with Helmut Walcha and learned conducting with Kurt Thomas.
Walter Fink joined the company of his father in 1930 and expanded it. He was Managing director of the Firmengruppe Fink (FINK Schuhe + Sport GmbH) in Wiesbaden until his retirement in 2002.
He founded a church choir at the Christuskirche in Wiesbaden and served there for 25 years as organist.
In 1987 he was one of the founding members of the Rheingau Musik Festival, together with Michael Herrmann, Tatiana von Metternich-Winneburg, Michael Bolenius, Hans-Clemens Lucht, Ulrich Rosin and Claus Wisser. He has been on the board of the Rheingau Musik Festival Förderverein, an association to support the festival. He has been on the Jury of the Rheingau Musikpreis, together with Rolf Beck, (Artistic Director of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival), Leo-Karl Gerhartz (retired Music Programme Director of the state broadcast Hessischer Rundfunk and Peter Hanser-Strecker (Board Chairperson, Schott Music).
Walter Fink received the Bundesverdienstkreuz in 2007. He is Grand Officier of the Confrérie de la Chaîne des Rôtisseurs. On 19 October 2011 the Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe granted him an honorary Doctorate of Philosophy.
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