Gisela Schwerdt

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Gisela Schwerdt (* 7 March 1917 in Bielefeld , † 21st October 1997 ibid ) was a German politician ( FDP ). In 1986 she caused a sensation nationwide when she became President of Arminia Bielefeld and thus became the first woman to take over the chairmanship of a professional German football club.

Live and act

The daughter of a master roofer joined the FDP in 1953. Three years later she was in the council of Senne I selected. From 1969 until it was incorporated into the city of Bielefeld, Schwerdt was mayor of Senne I. After the incorporation, she was a member of the Bielefeld city council and was mayor for more than ten years. In addition, for many years she was the only woman on the main committee of the German Association of Cities . After her death, a street in the Bielefeld district of Schildesche was named after her.

Between 1957 and 1997 Gisela Schwerdt was honorary chairwoman of the Bielefeld district association of the German Red Cross.

Schwerdt was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class and the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia .

President of Arminia Bielefeld

In March 1986 Schwerdt was elected president of the financially stricken second division Arminia Bielefeld. The club member Hubert Neugebauer then referred to her as the Mother Teresa of football . Her term in office was only 266 days. She stumbled upon an affair over the transfer fee for Yugoslav player Boris Tičić . The club paid the sum of 120,000 marks , which Arminia's managing director Siegfried Kunze handed over in cash to the player's agent Milanovic in Zagreb . Tičić later claimed that the club did not have to pay a transfer fee for him. Schwerdt was voted out of office at the association's annual general meeting on November 25, 1986.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Joachim Schultz-Tornau : Gisela Schwerdt. German-Japanese Society Bielefeld eV, accessed on August 14, 2014 .
  2. ↑ a b Christel Liebold: "What is morally wrong cannot be politically correct!" In: Bärbel Sunderbrink (Ed.): Women in Bielefelder Geschichte . Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-89534-795-5 , p. 349-358 .
  3. ↑ Jens Kirschneck, Marcus Uhlig , Volker Backes, Olaf Bentkämper, Julien Lecoeur: Arminia Bielefeld - 100 years of passion . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89533-479-0 , p. 118-119 .
personal data
SURNAME Schwerdt, Gisela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP)
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1997
Place of death Bielefeld