Georg Demmler

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Memorial plaque in the stadium, Dudenstrasse 40–64, in Berlin-Kreuzberg

Georg Demmler (born March 13, 1873 in Berlin ; † October 2, 1931 there ) was a German architect , athlete and sports official from the very beginning.

Life

Georg Demmler was born as the son of the luxury and lace paper manufacturer Gustav Demmler in Berlin-Tempelhof .

Demmler was active as a footballer at BFC Germania 1888 Berlin and around 1900 German champion in football throwing. He was also active as a track and field athlete and went to Athens as the team captain of the German Olympic team in 1896 and to Paris in 1900 and to the Olympic Intermediate Games in Athens in 1906 . In 1897 he founded the (today's) Berlin Football Association - at that time the Association of German Ball Game Clubs - and shortly afterwards in 1898 he founded the German Sports Authority for Athletics (DSA) (successor: German Athletics Association ) in Leipzig, of which he became the founding chairman. He was also instrumental in founding the German Football Association in 1900; he represented BFC Germania at the DFB's founding meeting .

As an architect, he provided the designs primarily for sports facilities such as the Poststadion (under monument protection ) in Berlin-Moabit , the Blau-Weiß tennis facility (under monument protection) in Berlin-Grunewald or the Willy-Kressmann-Stadion (formerly Katzbachstadion) in Berlin- Kreuzberg , where a plaque commemorates him today, as well as for the terraces on Kreuzberg , which are now called Golgotha ​​and are one of the traditional beer gardens in Berlin.

Georg Demmler died in Berlin in 1931 at the age of 58 and was buried in Cemetery I of the Jerusalem and New Churches in Kreuzberg. The grave has not been preserved.

literature

  • NN : Das Kopfballmonster , in: Michael Broschkowski and Thomas Schneider: Fußlümmelei- When football was still a game , Transit 2005, on: Dr. Michaela Prinzinger, Hans W. Korfmann: The literature , in: Kreuzberger Chronik , July 2006, edition 79; on-line:

Web links

Commons : Georg Demmler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NN: The headball monster ... (see literature)
  2. ↑ https://golgatha-berlin.de/
  3. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 212.
personal data
SURNAME Demmler, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, athlete and sports official
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 1931
Place of death Berlin