Hall of Fame of German Football

The Hall of Fame of German football is the hall of fame of German football founded in 2018 . It was initiated by the German Football Museum, inspired by Manuel Neukirchner , the director of the German Football Museum.

Choice of the founding eleven

In November 2018, a jury of sports journalists selected the first 11 players and the first coach for the Hall of Fame as the founding eleven of the Hall of Fame . The 26 jury members each submitted a personal list of suggestions from which a shortlist of 26 players and three coaches from German football was created. The main selection criteria were outstanding performance in German national teams as well as in national and international club football. The prerequisite was that her career had ended at least five years ago. In 2019, the jury also selected a founding eleven women for the Hall of Fame.

Jury members

The initial jury were:

Alexander Laux (Hamburger Abendblatt), Alfred Draxler (picture), Anno Hecker (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), Christian Hollmann (dpa), Christian Löer (Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger), Dirc Seemann (Sport1), Dirk Preiß (Stuttgarter Zeitung / Stuttgarter Nachrichten ), Erich Laaser (Association of German Sports Journalists), Frederik Ahrens (Hamburger Morgenpost), Gernot Bauer (Eurosport), Gianni Costa (Rheinische Post), Jörg Jakob (kicker), Katrin Schulze (Der Tagesspiegel), Manfred Loppe (RTL), Manuel Neukirchner (German Football Museum), Marco Fenske (RND), Mark Weishaupt (Saarbrücker Zeitung), Philipp Köster (11 friends), Pit Gottschalk (Funke Sport), Ralph Durry (sid), Roman Steuer (Sky), Sabine Töpperwien (WDR radio ), Sascha Klaverkamp (Ruhr Nachrichten), Stefan Frommann (WELT / WELT am SONNTAG), Steffen Simon (WDR television), Thomas Fuhrmann (ZDF)

List of recorded players

Year of admission	player	comment
2018	Sepp Maier	Tor, founding member
2018	Franz Beckenbauer	Defense, founding member
2018	Andreas Brehme	Defense, founding member
2018	Paul Breitner	Defense, founding member
2018	Fritz Walter	Midfield, founding member
2018	Lothar Matthäus	Midfield, founding member
2018	Matthias Sammer	Midfield, founding member
2018	Günter Netzer	Midfield, founding member
2018	Gerd Müller	Sturm, founding member
2018	Helmut Rahn	Sturm, founding member
2018	Uwe Seeler	Sturm, founding member
2019	Oliver Kahn	goal
2019	Hans-Jürgen Dörner	Defense
2019	Wolfgang Overath	midfield
2019	Jürgen Klinsmann	Storm

List of accepted players

Year of admission	player	comment
2019	Silke Rottenberg	Tor, founding member
2019	Doris Fitschen	Defense, founding member
2019	Steffi Jones	Defense, founding member
2019	Nia Künzer	Defense, founding member
2019	Renate Lingor	Midfield, founding member
2019	Silvia Neid	Midfield, founding member
2019	Martina Voss-Tecklenburg	Midfield, founding member
2019	Bettina Wiegmann	Midfield, founding member
2019	Inca grings	Sturm, founding member
2019	Heidi Mohr	Sturm, founding member
2019	Birgit Prinz	Sturm, founding member

List of enrolled trainers

Year of admission	Trainer	comment
2018	Sepp Herberger	Reich trainer from 1936 to 1942, national trainer from 1950 to 1964, founding member
2019	Helmut Schön	National coach from 1964 to 1978

List of accepted trainers

Year of admission	trainer	comment
2019	Tina Theune	National coach from 1996 to 2005, founding member

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Football Museum creates HALL OF FAME fussballmuseum.de
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Gianni Costa: RP-Online - The new ones in Ballhalla , accessed on October 11, 2019