Fritz Boxhammer
Fritz Boxhammer (born September 17, 1873 in Berlin ; † April 11, 1926 ), also called "Ette", was a German football player and association official .
Career
As a soccer player
Boxhammer switched from athletics to football, which was not very popular in the German Empire at the time . He founded the Berlin Thor and Football Club Britannia in 1892, from which the Berliner SV 1892 emerged on December 10, 1914 . For the BTuFC Britannia 1892 he played until 1894, then until 1896 for the BFC Germania 1888 in the German Football and Cricket Association and then for the Berlin FC Favorit from 1896 .
As a functionary
In 1894 Boxhammer was also a co-founder of the General German Sports Association and in 1897, together with Georg Demmler , was involved in founding the Verband Deutscher Ballspielvereine (VDB), which was renamed the Verband Berliner Ballspielvereine (VBB) on May 10, 1902 and since 1991 under the name Berliner Fußball-Verband (BFV) exists.
From 1898 chairman of the association, he represented several Berlin soccer clubs in this capacity on January 28, 1900 at the founding meeting of the German Football Association . When a new board was determined at the 9th DFB Bundestag on May 21, 1905, Gottfried Hinze was elected 1st and he 2nd chairman.
Elected first chairman in 1906, he played a key role in this function until 1911 in establishing a regulated game of games in Germany.
Web links
- Fritz Boxhammer in the database of weltfussball.de
Individual evidence
literature
- Jürgen Bitter : Germany's football. The encyclopedia. All names, all terms in more than 14,500 entries. With statistics and tables. Herbig, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7766-2558-5 , p. 87.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boxhammer, Fritz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Boxing hammer, Ette (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German football player and association official |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 17, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 11, 1926 |