Friedrich Wilhelm Nohe

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Friedrich Wilhelm Nohe (born April 10, 1864 , † October 13, 1940 ) was a German teacher , football player and football official . From 1904 to 1905 he was the second chairman of the German Football Association .

Nohe got to know football as a teacher of modern languages ​​at a military school in London . When he moved to Karlsruhe in 1896 , he had already been an active player for five years. In the Baden capital he joined the Karlsruhe FV , and in October 1896 he was elected chairman. A year later, as a representative of the club, he was involved in founding the Association of South German Football Associations , an amalgamation of eight clubs that were important in southern Germany at the time. On the first football day in southern Germany at Easter 1898, Nohe was elected chairman of the association. He held this position until 1907, during his ten-year term of office the association grew to almost 200 clubs with 10,000 members.

In addition to his position as chairman of the VSFV, Nohe was also chairman of the German Football Association from May 22, 1904 to May 21, 1905. After joining FIFA , the Prague representative Ferdinand Hueppe had to leave the association. However, Nohe saw himself unable to exercise both offices at the same time and therefore rejected his planned re-election.

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