Goetz Eilers

Goetz Eilers (born September 23, 1941 in Schwäbisch Gmünd , Baden-Württemberg ) is a German lawyer . From 1989 to 2006 he was the chief legal advisor of the German Football Association (DFB) and from 1992 head of personnel and permanent deputy to the DFB general secretary.

Goetz Eilers studied law in Frankfurt am Main , Marburg and Tübingen . He then worked as a judge at the Dieburg District Court and the Darmstadt District Court . Since 1972 he was DFB legal advisor, since 1989 chief legal advisor of the DFB. As its first full-time lawyer, Eilers joined the DFB on December 1, 1972, with which the association responded to the Bundesliga scandal and professionalized its internal association case law, which had been processed on a voluntary basis until then.

Eilers was a sports judge on the UEFA Control Disciplinary Committee . Until 2011 he is Vice-Chairman of the Appeals Senate of the European Football Association. He also remains as a judge at the International Court of Justice for Sports (CAS) in Lausanne from 2007 to 2010 . is an honorary member of the German Football Association.

Eilers is married and has two sons, including Tom Eilers, a former soccer goalkeeper and member of the Darmstadt 98 Presidium .

Web links

• "No playground for adventurers " , Focus No. 24/1995
• “Football heads: Goetz Eilers - Lord and Guardian of the Law” , DFB-Journal 04/2006
• “Götz Eilers is retiring” , Online Focus, December 22, 2006
• “Goetz Eilers says goodbye in retirement”, Sid Sport Information Service, December 22, 2006

Individual evidence

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