Football World Cup 2006 / Organizing Committee
The 2006 World Cup Organizing Committee ( OK for short ) organized the World Cup in Germany . The President of the OC was Franz Beckenbauer , who also appeared as the official representative and was the chairman of the German World Cup bid.
First Vice President and Deputy President of the World Cup Committee was Horst Schmidt , Secretary General of the German Football Association (DFB) . The area of responsibility of the executive vice-president of the OC was diverse and included game and competition matters, stadiums, ticket sales, transport and traffic, security, legal matters, personnel, finances, planning and control, medical care, administration and secretariat.
Wolfgang Niersbach was the executive vice president and press chief of the World Cup committee. Niersbach was responsible for marketing, press and public relations, accreditation, information technology, media and telecommunications, events and the team quarters.
Fedor Radmann was Vice President of the OC until 2003, followed by Theo Zwanziger . Zwanziger's area of responsibility included general organization, law, finances and also personnel decisions in the run-up to the World Cup.
The organizing committee was controlled by the supervisory board and the board of trustees. Well-known personalities such as Federal Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble , the former Federal Interior Minister Otto Schily , the President of the German Football Association Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder , Thomas Bach from the International Olympic Committee , Werner Hackmann , the President of the German Football League , and the former footballer sat on the Supervisory Board Günter Netzer as a sports rights marketer.
Supervisory board
- Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder , DFB President, OC Supervisory Board Chairman
- Wolfgang Schäuble , Federal Minister of the Interior , Deputy Chairman of the OC Supervisory Board
- Otto Schily , former Federal Minister of the Interior
- Thomas Bach , IOC
- Günter Netzer , Infront Sports & Media AG
- Werner Hackmann , President of the German Football League (DFL)
- Wilfried Straub , Executive Chairman of the DFL
- Engelbert Nelle , 1st Vice President (amateurs), DFB
- Heinrich Schmidhuber , DFB treasurer
- Manfred Maus , Chairman of the Supervisory Board OBI AG
Board of Trustees
- Manfred von Richthofen , former president of the German Sports Confederation
- Egidius Braun , DFB Honorary President
- Klaus Steinbach , President of the German Olympic Sports Confederation
- Hans Ludwig Grüschow , chairman of the German Sports Aid
- Herbert Hainer , CEO of Adidas- Salomon AG
- Erich Schumann, managing director of the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
- Fritz Pleitgen , director of West German Broadcasting
- Michel Platini , member of the FIFA Executive Committee, member of the Organizing Committee for the 2006 FIFA World Cup GermanyTM
- Roman Herzog , Federal President a. D.
- Lennart Johansson , President UEFA , member of the FIFA Executive Committee , Chairman of the Organizing Committee for the 2006 FIFA World Cup GermanyTM
- Karin Wolff , Permanent Conference of the Education Ministers of the Länder
- Peter Rauen , Chairman of the Sports Committee of the German Bundestag
- Thomas Röwekamp , Senator for the Interior and Sport, Chairman of the Conference of Sport Ministers of the Federal States 2005–2006
- Christina Weiss , former Minister of State and Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media
Advice to the OK
The World Cup committee was also supported and advised by the sports committee of the German Bundestag . The sports committee had exchanged views with the OC on several occasions on this subject, for example in June 2003 about the opportunities and prospects for tourist marketing of the major football event. Members in the electoral period until 2006 were fifteen MPs from the SPD , CDU / CSU , Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen and the FDP . The chairman of the sports committee was Peter Rauen from the CDU, who was also on the board of trustees of the OK.
International ambassadors
One of the representatives and ambassadors of the World Cup was the national coach of the German national team Jürgen Klinsmann . The world and European champions (from 1990 and 1996) qualified for this through his international career and his foreign language skills. He played in Italy, France, England and lives in the United States. Oliver Bierhoff also comes from the area of responsibility of the national team . He is the national team manager and was European champion in 1996. Bierhoff shot Germany for the title with a golden goal and he was one of the best strikers in the Italian Serie A in the 1990s at Udinese Calcio and AC Milan . Another representative of the World Cup was the football functionary Karl-Heinz Rummenigge . FC Bayern Munich's chairman of the board was European champion in 1980 and was vice-president of the association of major European clubs " G-14 " as well as within the UEFA president of the European club forum. Rudi Völler was the former captain of the German national team and the predecessor of Jürgen Klinsmann. The former international striker should also represent Germany in the world.
Head of organization Franz Beckenbauer named other World Cup ambassadors, all of them former soccer professionals, who were to officially accompany their hometowns and at the same time the World Cup host cities on the way to the World Cup:
- Andreas Köpke : national goalkeeper and European champion (1996), goalkeeping coach of the German national soccer team; Köpke is Nuremberg's ambassador
- René Müller : The former GDR goalkeeper and former coach of the former second division Rot-Weiß Erfurt represented the trade fair city of Leipzig .
- Olaf Thon : Football World Champion in Rome in 1990, ended his active career in March 2003; Ambassador of Gelsenkirchen , where he long years for the FC Schalke 04 played
- Stefan Reuter : Football World Champion 1990, former captain of Borussia Dortmund ; Ambassador for Dortmund
- Sigi Held : national soccer player and participant in the Wembley final in 1966, in April 2006 nominated ambassador for Dortmund
- Hansi Müller : The 1980 European champion took on the role of ambassador for Stuttgart from Guido Buchwald . Buchwald was from January 2004 to December 2006 coach in Japan's professional league J. League with the Urawa Red Diamonds and was therefore only available to a very limited extent as a representative.
- Horst Eckel : World Champion in Bern 1954, he was the youngest in the winning team of coach Sepp Herberger ; Ambassador for Kaiserslautern
- Uwe Seeler : honorary captain of the national team, 1964 the first top scorer in the Bundesliga; Us Uwe was ambassador for his hometown Hamburg
- Hans Siemensmeyer : record scorer in the history of Hannover 96 ; Ambassador for his homeland Hanover
- Wolfgang Overath : World Champion from 1974, former outstanding midfielder from 1. FC Köln , President of the club from June 2004 to November 2011; Ambassador for Cologne
- Michael Preetz : Center forward from Hertha BSC , he represented Berlin in the national team seven times and scored three goals; Ambassador for Berlin
- Bernd Hölzenbein : 1974 world champion, Eintracht Frankfurt striker ; Ambassador for Frankfurt am Main
- Jürgen Grabowski : 1974 world champion, led Eintracht Frankfurt to win the UEFA Cup in 1980 ; Ambassador from Frankfurt together with Hölzenbein
- Gerd Müller : The former center forward, who was three times victorious with FC Bayern Munich in the final of the European Cup , represented the Bavarian capital of Munich . In 1966/67 Müller and Bayern won the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup , in 1972 he won the European Football Championship , and two years later the World Cup final in Munich. His records: 365 goals in the Bundesliga , 40 of them in one season, and 68 goals in 62 international matches.