Kurt Landauer

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Kurt Landauer (* 28. July 1884 in Planegg , † 21st December 1961 in Munich ) was a German businessman and football functionary . He was President of FC Bayern Munich from 1913 to 1914, 1919 to 1933 and again from 1947 to 1951, and was posthumously elected honorary chairman of the club in 2013.

Life

Kurt Landauer was born in July 1884 as the third son of the Jewish businessman Otto Landauer (1842–1913) and his wife Hulda Bernheimer (1844–1930) in Planegg, a south-western suburb of Munich. He had four brothers, including Franz Landauer and two sisters. His father ran a shop for women's clothing at Kaufingerstraße 26 / Frauenplatz 6 in Munich.

From 1901 Landauer played as a goalkeeper for the second team for Bayern Munich . In 1913/14 he succeeded Angelo Knorr (1882–1950), who had led and shaped the association since 1907, for the first time as president. Landauer fought in the First World War from 1914 to 1918 and received the Iron Cross for his services .

After the war, Landauer resumed his function in the association in January 1919. In his second term in office, which lasted until 1933, FC Bayern Munich saw a sporting rise. The club was able to win two southern German championships (1926 and 1928) and reach the final round of the German championship several times (1926, 1928 and 1929). With a 2-0 win against Eintracht Frankfurt in the final in Nuremberg on June 12, 1932, FC Bayern became German champions for the first time .

The fashion business of his father, was involved in the landau was the end of 1928 in the bankruptcy . In the fall of 1930 he took a position in the advertising department of the Münchner Neuesten Nachrichten . Here he quickly rose to office manager. Already on March 22, 1933, shortly after the " seizure " of the Nazis , Landau resigned as Bayern president. In April 1933 he lost his job because of his Jewish faith . After temporary unemployment, he got a job in a Munich laundry business in 1935. At the end of 1937 he and his brother Franz sold the family's headquarters at 28 Kaufingerstrasse to the Woolworth department store chain .

In 1938 he was interned in the Dachau concentration camp for four weeks the day after the pogrom night . After his release he was able to flee to Switzerland in May 1939 . Four of his siblings, on the other hand, were murdered by the Nazis. The Bayern players hadn't forgotten him, however: At a friendly match in Zurich in 1940, they came to the stands and warmly greeted their former president, who was sitting there.

Memorial plaque to Kurt Landauer near the Allianz Arena .

Landauer returned to Munich in June 1947 and was again President of FC Bayern Munich in August. At the same time, he worked for a Munich publishing house from November 1948. The rebuilding of the association was successful under his presidency. This also includes the provision of a practice area on Säbener Straße, where FC Bayern has had its club area since then. In addition, FC Bayern celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1950 during Landauer's last term in office.

On April 10, 1951, Landauer was surprisingly voted out of office at the general assembly in the Union-Bräu on Max-Weber-Platz . Actually, the meeting was supposed to decide who should succeed the management duo Landauer and Vice Siegfried Herrmann in the following year . Probably owed to a plot by the handball players in the club, who had arrived in unusually large numbers, their department head, the 38-year-old carpet wholesaler Julius Scheuring , was elected the new president with immediate effect; However, he could not hold long in this position and had to resign in 1953. As a result of this experience, the association's statutes were changed so that from now on only footballers could become president.

Three months after he was voted out of office, on July 27, 1951, a Bavarian delegation, led by Scheuring, visited him in his apartment in Schwabing to congratulate him on his 50-year membership in the association and provided him with flowers and a splendid one golden ring with club crest. The reconciled Landauer something and he participated in the background again in the club's activities, u. a. through financial support through his reparation money .

On October 27, 1955, Landauer married his former housekeeper Maria Baumann (1899–1971) from Memmingen . She had served his mother as assistant cook and ran the household for him and his brother Paul, from which a personal familiarity had developed.

Kurt Landauer died on December 21, 1961 in the Schwabing Clinic in Munich. He is buried in the New Israelite Cemetery . By resolution of the annual general meeting on November 13, 2013, FC Bayern posthumously appointed him honorary president .

Honors

Kurt-Landauer-Weg in front of the Catholic ( sic !) Holy Cross Church in Fröttmaning
  • 1917: Awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd class.
  • 1929: Awarded the Golden Badge of Honor with Diamonds from FC Bayern Munich.
  • Situated in Munich's Freimann near the Allianz Arena was Kurt-Landauer path named after him.
  • On July 27, 2009, on the occasion of Landauer's 125th birthday, a memorial ceremony, combined with an interview with contemporary witnesses, took place in the camp street of the former Dachau concentration camp, Block 8.
  • The “Schickeria München”, the ultra group of FC Bayern, holds an anti-racist tournament for the Kurt Landauer Cup every year and was also a key initiator of the film in honor of Kurt Landauer.
  • The TSV Maccabi München has one of its seats on the club grounds at the Riemer Road in the east of Munich Kurt Landauer Square called. The Kurt Landauer Tournament takes place there every July.
  • The Bayern Munich has named the square in front of the Allianz Arena by Kurt Landauer on December 15, 2015.
  • In May 2019, a bronze statue of Kurt Landauer was unveiled at the FC Bayern training ground.

Movie

In 2010, the Munich City District Youth Association, in cooperation with the National Socialist Documentation Center, produced a documentary film about the life of Kurt Landauer, the early history of FC Bayern and the joint work of Jews and non-Jews. The film Kick it like Kurt was awarded the Munich Citizens Prize Against Forgetting - For Democracy 2011 .

In July 2014 Landauer - The President premiered at the Munich Film Festival . The television film about Landauer's life was produced by Zeitsprung Pictures on behalf of BR , ARD Degeto and WDR and was broadcast on October 15, 2014 on Erste . The augmented reality app “LandauerWalk” was released in the same year as part of a transmedia project . It makes it possible to experience the stages in Kurt Landauer's life in Munich with AR technology .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Eisenbichler: "FCB didn't just start with Beckenbauer". In: Bayerischer Rundfunk. June 30, 2012, accessed December 17, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Ronny Blaschke: Not a legend. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. July 26, 2009. Retrieved October 11, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Heike Faller: Uncle Kurt and the Bavarians. In: Zeit Online. May 28, 2003, accessed October 11, 2014 .
  4. ↑ FCB appoints Kurt Landauer as honorary president. In: FCBayern.de. November 13, 2013, accessed October 14, 2014 .
  5. ^ FC Bayern Munich: Kurt Landauer for the 125th time. In: haGalil.com. July 27, 2009, accessed October 11, 2014 .
  6. ↑ TSV Maccabi Munich e. V. In: maccabimuenchen.de. Retrieved December 28, 2017 .
  7. ↑ FC Bayern inaugurates Kurt-Landauer-Platz in front of the Allianz Arena , muenchen.de, December 16, 2015, accessed on December 28, 2017
  8. ↑ FC Bayern unveils Kurt Landauer statue on Säbener Strasse. May 22, 2019, accessed May 25, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Alexander Krei: Josef Bierbichler plays ex-Bayern boss Landauer. In: DWDL.de :. July 18, 2013, accessed October 11, 2014 .
  10. ^ Film about Kurt Landauer: The inventor of FC Bayern. In: Stern.de. June 30, 2014, archived from the original on July 16, 2014 ; accessed on June 30, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Landauer, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German football official
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Planegg
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1961
Place of death Munich