Franz Kremer

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Monument erected for Franz Kremer in the Franz Kremer Stadium

Franz Kremer (born July 30, 1905 in Cologne ; † November 11, 1967 ) was the first president of 1. FC Köln , which was founded in 1948 .

Life

As chairman of Cologne BC from 1901, Franz Kremer was the driving force behind the founding of 1. FC Cologne through the merger of his club with the Spielvereinigung Sülz 07 in 1948. Kremer succeeded in establishing a city-wide football club in Cologne for the first time all other clubs in their catchment area remained more or less restricted to parts of the city area up to then and also in the following years. Kremer's ambition was already evident in 1948 when he promoted the merger of the two lower-class clubs with the slogan "Do you want to become German champions with me?" The rise of 1. FC Köln to a regional and later national top club was due to its bustling and for the time very modern management methods. The almost professional structures of the association were considered exemplary in Germany in the early 1960s. Kremer ruled alone within the club and was at times very authoritarian. This is one of the reasons for his nickname “the boss”.

The 1962 and 1964 championships fell during Kremer's presidency. The club was surprised by Kremer's sudden death on November 11, 1967 (after a 1: 2 away win against Eintracht Frankfurt) and since then has only been able to achieve the leading position in German football that he has sporadically held during the Kremer era.

Family grave in the south cemetery

Kremer was one of the leading personalities in founding the Bundesliga in 1963. Today the name of the club's youth stadium is reminiscent of Franz Kremer. On the occasion of his 100th birthday, the street to Geißbockheim was also renamed from Cluballee to Franz-Kremer-Allee.

His widow Liselotte Kremer (née Beutler, born October 6, 1918) died on April 15, 2014. She was an honorary member of the 1. Football Club Cologne 01/07 e. V.

The grave of the Kremer family is in Cologne's south cemetery (hall 15).

Awards and honors

At the gala for the 70th anniversary of the 1. FC Cologne club on November 18, 2018, Kremer was posthumously accepted into the club's newly established hall of fame .

criticism

Aachen football fans still reproach that when the Bundesliga was founded in 1963, when asked about the selection of Bundesliga participants from the Oberliga West , Kremer preferred Meidericher SV (now MSV Duisburg ) to the disadvantage of Alemannia Aachen in order to localize it To get rid of competitors who were the "athletically better team". The accusation has to be taken into account that the MSV finished the last season of the Oberliga West two places in the table before the Alemannia and that without him the Lower Rhine would not have been represented. In any case, the decision did not lie with Kremer alone, but with the responsible commission.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://effzeh.com/zum-50-todestag-von-franz-kremer-der-vater-des-1-fc-koeln-und-der-bundesliga/
  2. ↑ https://web.de/magazine/sport/fussball/bundesliga/franz-kremer-stirbt-1-fc-koeln-gerade-frankfurt-gewinnt-34537196
  3. ↑ http://www.rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de/Persoenitäten/franz-kremer/DE-2086/lido/57c9399d10ec35.46625923
  4. ↑ HALL OF FAME opened , fc.de, accessed on November 23, 2018

literature

  • Günter Schwanenberg: Em Himmel es d'r Düvel loss ... Musical-literary forays into the south cemetery. Marzellen-Verlag, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-937795-11-9 ( Edition Narrengilde 7), p. 92f.
personal data
SURNAME Kremer, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION first president of 1. FC Köln
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1967