Ivo Schricker

Ivo Schricker (left)
as a teenager with the Karlsruher Kickers team
in a photo from 1895

Ivo Schricker (born March 18, 1877 in Strasbourg , German Reich ; † January 10, 1962 in Zurich , Switzerland ) was a German lawyer , soccer player and soccer professional .

Career

player

In the early 1890s, Schricker first came into contact with the still young sport of football as a high school student in Karlsruhe . He did his military service in Strasbourg and, like his one year younger brother Erwin, played for the Strasbourg FV, founded in 1890, and the Karlsruher Kickers team initiated by Walther Bensemann . Schricker then studied law in Berlin and was active there at the Academic SC . In 1898 and 1899, the tall middle runner was one of the best players in the so-called original international matches against teams from England. After completing his studies, he lived in Karlsruhe again. The lawyer, who has now received his doctorate, played there for the Karlsruhe FV from 1900 to 1906 , with whom he was several times the South German champion . The highlight of his time at KFV was reaching the final of the German championship in 1905 , which however was lost 2-0 to the Berlin TuFC Union 92 .

official

For professional reasons, Schricker left Karlsruhe in 1906 and moved to Egypt , from where he returned to Germany in 1914. After the First World War , he started a career as a functionary, which made Schricker, a talented linguist and diplomatically skillful, one of the most influential football protagonists. From 1923 to 1925 he was chairman of the South German Football Association , in 1927 an assessor on the board of the German Football Association and from 1928 to 1932 third chairman of the DFB. At the international level, he was vice-president of the world football association FIFA and chairman of the amateur committee from 1927 to 1932 . In 1932 he was elected FIFA's first full-time general secretary and held this office for almost twenty years until December 1950, despite the exclusion of Germany after the Second World War . For 25 years from 1906, the Dutchman Carl Anton Wilhelm Hirschmann had been the predecessor in the position previously referred to as secretary . Schricker, who was made an honorary member by the DFB, died in Zurich in 1962.

Web links

• Ivo Schricker in the weltfussball.de database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ fifa.com: "FIFA General Secretaries over the years"

literature

• German Football Association (Ed.): 100 years of the DFB . Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-328-00850-0 , p. 264.
• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 350.
• Henry Wahlig : Dr. Ivo Schricker. A German in the service of world football . In: Lorenz Peiffer, Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling (ed.): Swastika and round leather. Football under National Socialism . Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89533-598-3 , pp. 197-206.