Hermann Korfmacher

Hermann Korfmacher 2010

Hermann Korfmacher (born July 11, 1943 in Gütersloh ) is a German sports official. He was President of the West German Football Association (WDFV) until 2019 .

Korfmacher first took on various tasks in his home club SV Grün-Weiß Langenberg before he was elected chairman of the Gütersloh football district in 1976. He held this office until 2000. In 2001 he was elected President of the Football and Athletics Association of Westphalia (FLVW) as the successor to Paul Rasche and in 2003 he was elected President of the WDFV. In 2007, 2010 and at the Association Day 2013 (August 17) in Duisburg, Korfmacher was confirmed in his office as WDFV President.

Since the DFB Bundestag in 2001 he has been a member of the board of the German Football Association . He was elected 1st Vice President Amateurs of the German Football Association at the 39th Ordinary Bundestag of the DFB on October 25, 2007, and was confirmed in this office in 2010. Upon reaching the age limit, Korfmacher no longer stood as Vice President of the DFB Bundestag in 2013. As part of his departure from the Presidium, Korfmacher was recognized as a great personality in German football at the Bundestag.

At the 2006 soccer world championship he was head of the Gelsenkirchen branch. As 1st Vice President Amateurs, Hermann Korfmacher settled, among other things, fundamental questions of the regional and state associations of the DFB.

In 2005, Korfmacher was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit with ribbon . During the European Football Championship in June 2012 in Gdansk , Hermann Korfmacher was also awarded the DFB's Golden Badge of Honor by DFB President Wolfgang Niersbach .

Until his retirement in 2008, Hermann Korfmacher was managing director of the workshop for disabled people in the district of Gütersloh gGmbH.

Web links

• WDFV website
• FLVW website

predecessor	Office	successor
Paul Rasche	President of the WDFV 2003–2019	Peter Frymuth