Franz Jacobi (football official)

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Franz Jacobi's grave in the south-west cemetery in Dortmund

Franz Jacobi (born July 20, 1888 in Dortmund ; † February 13, 1979 in Salzgitter ) was a German steelworker in the Dortmund steel industry and co-founder of the Borussia Dortmund football club .

Life and career

At the end of 1909 Jacobi was one of the ringleaders among recreational footballers who did not want the chaplain of the Dortmund Trinity Community to ban him from playing football. With his soccer friends he split a Catholic youth group and founded the ball sports club Borussia 09 on December 19, 1909. He was initially the cashier and managing director of Borussia Dortmund , from 1910 to 1923 then chairman of the club. He was then honorary chairman and was active in an advisory capacity until the 1960s. Jacobi spent his last years in Salzgitter , where he died in 1979 at the age of 90. He wrote the first BVB association statutes. The other founding members of the association were Heinrich Cleve, Franz Braun, Paul Braun, Hans Debest, Paul Dziendziella, Julius Jacobi, Wilhelm Jacobi, Hans Kahn, Gustav Müller, Franz Risse, Fritz Schulte, Hans Siebold, August Tönnesmann, Heinrich Unger, Fritz Weber , Franz Wendt and Robert Unger.

In June 2013, three Borussia Dortmund fans started a film project entitled Am Borsigplatz born - Franz Jacobi and the cradle of BVB , which tells the story of Jacobi and the other founders of Borussia Dortmund on film.

Jacobi was buried in the Salzgitter-Lebenstedt cemetery. In the course of researching the planned film, it emerged that Jacobi's grave had been removed, but that his bones were still in the cemetery because the grave was not re-sold. Therefore, at the request of Jacobi's descendants, a transfer to the south-west cemetery in Dortmund was organized. This took place on July 27, 2013 as part of a church ceremony in the Trinity Church .

Franz Jacobi was married to Lydia Jacobi, nee Trott, with whom he had a son.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robin Bierbrauer: The man from Borsigplatz. In: chrismon.de. Retrieved September 30, 2019 .
  2. ^ Film project Born on Borsigplatz - Franz Jacobi and the cradle of BVB in Borussia - The Members ' Magazine, Issue 61, Pages 8 to 11, 23 August 2013.
  3. ^ Reburial: Franz Jacobi comes home. (No longer available online.) Franz-jacobi.de project, archived from the original on July 13, 2013 ; Retrieved July 18, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / franz-jacobi.de
  4. ↑ Tobias Großekemper: Why the BVB founder is coming back to Dortmund. DerWesten.de, July 22, 2013, accessed on July 24, 2013 .
  5. ↑ The marriage is mentioned in this message ( memento of the original from April 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / franz-jacobi.de
personal data
SURNAME Jacobi, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German steelworker in the Dortmund steel industry, co-founder of Borussia Dortmund
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1979
Place of death Salzgitter