Franz John (soccer player)

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Franz John
Personnel
Surname Franz Adolf Louis John
birthday September 28, 1872
place of birth PritzwalkGerman Empire
date of death 17th November 1952
Place of death BerlinGermany
position Storm
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1883-1898 VfB Pankow
1898-1900 MTV Munich 1879
1900-1903 FC Bayern Munich
1 Only league games are given.

Franz Adolf Louis John (born September 28, 1872 in Pritzwalk , † November 17, 1952 in Berlin ) was a German football official and photographer. On February 27, 1900, he was one of the main initiators of the founding of FC Bayern Munich and its first president from 1900 to 1903.

Live and act

John was born as the son of the postal secretary Friedrich Wilhelm John and his wife Ida (née Siepermann) in Pritzwalk in northern Brandenburg . With his parents he first came to the village of Pankow on the outskirts of Berlin , where he joined the VfB Pankow soccer team at the age of 11 . In the club he made the acquaintance of Gustav Manning , who later became secretary of the DFB , who was to support John significantly in the integration of Munich football into the DFB. After training as a photographer in Jena , he finally moved to Munich , where he settled in the Schwabing district and became a member of the football department of MTV Munich in 1879 .

In the dispute about joining the Association of Süddeutscher Fußball-Vereine (SFV), which was hostile to the management board of MTV Munich 1879, which was dominated by gymnasts, he left the general assembly of the club on February 27, 1900 with ten other football players in protest and moved in with them the restaurant Gisela . There they decided and carried out the founding of the Munich soccer club “Bayern” , with which they broke away from the parent club; they elected him their first president.

Under his leadership, the club quickly developed into the strongest force in Munich football. In the year it was founded, FC Bayern München joined the SFV and set up its own youth department. In 1901 he qualified with the team for the first time for the semi-finals of the South German Championship. One and a half years after the establishment of the company, the space problems were resolved with the transfer of a piece of land on Schwabinger Clemensstrasse .

In 1903 he left FC Bayern Munich. His successor in the office of president was the Dutch playmaker Willem Hesselink . In 1904 John returned to Pankow and bought a photo laboratory there. Later he got involved again with his home club VfB Pankow and took over the presidency there for two years. Although John's contacts in Munich were almost broken, he was elected honorary chairman of the club on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of FC Bayern Munich; In 1936 he received the Golden Badge of Honor.

He died alone on November 17, 1952 at the age of 80 in Pankow; his traces were lost. The Berlin journalist Hans-Joachim Rechenberg tracked down the forgotten grave in Fürstenwalde . Fans of the FCB then demanded the restoration of the grave after the end of the term of the grave site. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of its founding, FC Bayern Munich had a tombstone erected on John's dilapidated grave to commemorate his services to the club.

Others

Franz John was also the founder of the Bavarian Arbitration Board.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Honoring John on successfans.com

literature

  • Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling: The Bavarians - The history of the record champions . Publishing house DIE WERKSTATT. 2009, ISBN 978-3-89533669-0 - pp. 14-16 and p. 592
  • Heiner Gillmeister: The Tale of Little Franz and Big Franz. The Foundation of Bayern Munich FC. In: Soccer and Society. 1,2, 2000, pp. 80-106.