Hermann Neuberger

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November 1990: Hans-Georg Moldenhauer , President of the Northeast German Football Association (NOFV) , presents Neuberger with a Trabant as a gift for joining the German Football Association (DFB)

Hermann Neuberger (born December 12, 1919 in Völklingen-Fenne ; † September 27, 1992 in Homburg ) was the seventh President of the German Football Association (DFB) from 1975 to 1992 .

Career

Neuberger, the son of a teacher couple, grew up in the Saarbrücken working-class district of Malstatt and attended the boarding school of the Lender School Sasbach until he graduated from high school in 1938, then joined the Wehrmacht as a conscript and took part in the Second World War in Africa and Italy, most recently as a captain in the General Staff of the Wehrmacht in Rome . After returning from British captivity in November 1945, he worked as an editor at Saarbrücker Sport-Echo from 1946 and from 1951 in the advertising department of the Karlsberg brewery in Homburg. In 1955 he took over the management of Saarland-Sporttoto GmbH. From 1961 to 1984 he was its director. From 1976 to 1984 he also managed its subsidiary, Saarland Spielbank GmbH.

At the DFB Bundestag on October 25, 1975 in Hamburg , he was elected President of the largest German sports association. But even before his time as DFB President, he had worked as a sports official. At the time of the independent Saarland, he was President of the Saarland Football Association and one of the fathers of the Bundesliga . He was then chief organizer of the 1974 World Cup in the Federal Republic of Germany . In 1974 he was elected vice-president of the world football association FIFA and later also appointed head of organization for the world championships from 1978 to 1990 . He held the office of FIFA Vice President and DFB President until his death.

During his tenure, he won the European championship in 1980 , the runner-up world championships in 1982 and 1986 and the world championship title in 1990 in Italy . The national coaches during his tenure were Helmut Schön (1964–1978), Jupp Derwall (1978–1984), Franz Beckenbauer ( team manager 1984–1990) and Berti Vogts (1990–1998).

His grave in the Burbach forest cemetery

Neuberger was criticized when he defended the visit of the former pilot officer and National Socialist propagandist Hans-Ulrich Rudel in the training quarters of the German national team in Ascochinga during the soccer world championship 1978 in Argentina at the time of the military dictatorship with the words that criticism of Rudel's appearance was coming " like an insult to all German soldiers ”. However, support came from the extreme right-wing press such as the German National Newspaper . Neuberger reprimanded the players of the finalists and vice-world champions Netherlands for refusing to shake hands with the Argentine dictator Videla and the members of the military junta. Neuberger had previously forbidden the German players from doing this in the event of participation in the finals.

Hermann Neuberger died on September 27, 1992 in the Homburg University Clinic of complications from cancer.

Honors

Neuberger was awarded the Saarland Order of Merit on April 25, 1977 . The headquarters of the DFB in Frankfurt am Main - the Hermann-Neuberger-Haus - and the Hermann-Neuberger-Sportschule in Saarbrücken are named after him today. His hometown Völklingen named its sports hall, stadium and secondary school after him and set a monument for him.

Hermann Neuberger Prize

The State Sports Association for Saarland has been awarding the Hermann Neuberger Prize annually since 2005 to clubs that have made outstanding contributions to talent detection, talent promotion and competitive sports development in Saarland:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Saarbrücker Zeitung v. December 24, 2015, p. D1
  2. ↑ World Cup Anecdotes: A Game of the Century and a Scandal of the Century , Spiegel Online, July 6, 2010
  3. ^ Hermann Neuberger . In: Der Spiegel . No. 41 , 1992, pp. 348 ( online ).
  4. ^ Announcement of awards of the Saarland Order of Merit . In: Head of the State Chancellery (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Saarland . No. 18 . Saarbrücker Zeitung Verlag und Druckerei GmbH, Saarbrücken May 9, 1977, p. 391–392 ( uni-saarland.de [PDF; 244 kB ; accessed on May 27, 2017]).
  5. ^ SV 64 Zweibrücken receives the Hermann Neuberger Prize 2012

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personal data
SURNAME Neuberger, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German football official, President of the German Football Association (DFB)
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Völklingen-Fenne
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1992
Place of death Homburg