Alfred Reitlinger

Alfred Reitlinger (* approx. 1909), full-time ministerial director with responsibility for human resources in the Bavarian Ministry of Agriculture, was President of FC Bayern Munich from 1955 to 1958.

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His father Leo was a chief magistrate, his brother Anton, born in Schwabmünchen , a commercial clerk and active at FC Bayern, died on February 2, 1945 in the Dachau concentration camp . Alfred Reitlinger converted from Jewish to Catholic in 1933.

His professional career developed as follows:

• 1927–1931 bank apprenticeship and employment at Disconto-Gesellschaft München
• 1931–1934 auditor at the Bavarian Chamber of Agriculture
• August 1934 dismissed without notice due to the Nuremberg Laws
• 1934–1939 worked for various companies
• 1939–1941 at Drexler & Co., iron constructions
• 1941 at the instigation of the German Labor Front dismissed
• 1942–1944 employed by the Gestapo as a laborer at the Obpacher printing company
• 1944 - May 1945 clerk at the working group of the locksmith's trade, Munich,
• August 15, 1945 personnel officer in the Bavarian State Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forestry
  • from December 1, 1945 senior councilor, from January 1, 1947 ministerial advisor, later ministerial director

In 1949, at a meeting of trotter owners, Walter Held referred to him as dominating trotter breeding in Bavaria , together with the publisher of the Süddeutsche Zeitung Werner Friedmann and Carl Schlochauer, the publisher of the Landshuter Zeitung Isar-Post, at a meeting of trotter owners .

Presidency at FC Bayern

In July 1955, Alfred Reitlinger succeeded the triumvirate Adolf Fischer, Karli Wild and Hugo Theisinger, who took over the management of the club in 1953 after Julius Scheuring, the controversial club leader and head of the handball department of FC Bayern. Under the trio, the club rose at the end of the league season 1955/56 for the only time so far, also as bottom of the table with eleven points gap to a non-relegation rank.

Under Reitlinger, the team trained by ex-Bayern player Herbert “Bertl” Moll , who took over in December 1954, managed to gain immediate promotion.

The Austrian Willibald Hahn became the new Bayern coach after he was the Norwegian national coach from 1953 to 1955. In 1957 Bayern finished tenth in the league. After the club originally wanted to forego participation in the DFB Cup due to the tight financial situation , Hahn insisted on participating in the competition, which was still held every calendar year at that time. In December, Bayern achieved their second national success after the German championship in 1932 with a 1-0 final win at the Augsburg Rosenaustadion over Fortuna Düsseldorf. In addition to the 1954 world champion Hans Bauer , the five-time Hungarian national goalkeeper Árpád Fazekas and who came at the beginning of the 1957/58 season striker Kurt Sommerlatt , who came from Karlsruher SC and who celebrated his third cup triumph with Bayern, are probably the most prominent players in Bayern. Bavaria finished the league in 1958 in seventh place. However, the club's financial situation was precarious and the word insolvency was in the room.

In April 1958, Reitlinger was not re-elected at the stormy annual general meeting against his fierce opposition. Was succeeded by the Munich-based Neuss entrepreneurs and current member of the Committee's Roland Endler , of the club over the next four years through patronage should remediate and prudent management.

During an audit by the new club management it was found that during Reitlinger's term of office there was an overpayment of players contrary to the contract player statute. This was reported to the DFB to provide legal relief for the new management staff. In addition, Reitlinger was asked to reimburse incorrectly billed expenses, which he then did by paying in installments, except for DM 600, which Bavaria then waived. Upon request, he resigned from the association in the summer of 1958. His cashier Willy Plank, who was managing director at Bavaria in the 1940s, was forcibly expelled from the association.

Specifically, the sports court of the German Football Association found it proven that FC Bayern had overpaid 20 players in the 1957/58 season in the amount of DM 200 to around DM 400 each, which was assessed as a “gross violation” of the contract player statute . It was not considered proven that the club had distributed DM 16,000 for so-called “vacation bonuses”, ie 800 Märker per player's nose. Proof of where the money should have gone to could not be provided. Neither Reitlinger nor Plank took part in the sports court proceedings. FC Bayern was sentenced to a deduction of eight points and a fine of DM 10,000. The point deduction was reduced to four points in the appeal and was applied at the end of the 1959/60 season.

Another problem, in this case with his employer, the Ministry of Agriculture, arose from the double billing of travel costs by rail. He used the official permanent tickets of the ministry for private trips for the club, but at the same time had the full costs reimbursed by FC Bayern, which resulted in damage to Deutsche Bahn of DM 2,180 and FC Bayern of DM 2,104. According to Reitlinger, the card was used with the approval of Ministers Joseph Baumgartner and Alois Hundhammer , who wanted to use it to benefit the financially troubled Bavarians. He is also said to have credited the club's travel expenses to international matches that he did not attend. Reitlinger was given a leave of absence in February 1959 in the course of a criminal criminal investigation.

In May 1960, the Great Criminal Chamber at the Munich Regional Court sentenced Reitlinger, who was then 51 years old, to a prison sentence of seven months with probation and a fine of DM 3,000, which was payable to the Bavarian State Association for Prisoner Welfare. The court found that there was ongoing fraud by using rail season tickets for ministerial business trips, including for trips in the interests of FC Bayern. He was acquitted of the allegation of infidelity towards FC Bayern for lack of evidence, even though the judge's chairman said, “Objectively, the accused undoubtedly fulfilled the offense of fraud and infidelity towards FC Bayern. It could not be refuted by the accused that he did not liquidate expenses to which he was entitled to the association, and instead believed that he could offset expenses to which he was entitled ”. Ex-Minister Baumgartner, who was not sworn in on suspicion of possible participation, said that he did not know the regulations on season tickets and had never seen Reitlinger's.

Web links

• All presidents of FC Bayern , FC Bayern Munich (as of 12/2017)
• Hanna Raif: Nazi Day of Remembrance: FC Bayern remembers , Münchner Merkur , January 26, 2016.

Remarks

1. ^ The minutes of the Bavarian Council of Ministers 1945-1962 , meeting of the Council of Ministers Wednesday November 27, 1946, Agenda Item XIV, Promotion of the Upper Government Council Dr. Reitlinger from the Ministry of Agriculture to Ministerialrat. (Note: In the protocols regarding his promotion, reference is always made to Alfred Reitlinger with "Dr. Reitlinger", as is agreed with the rest of the curriculum vitae, is an open question.)