Manfred Amerell

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Manfred Amerell
Personal
Surname Manfred Amerell
birthday February 25, 1947
place of birth Munich, Germany
date of death before December 11, 2012
Place of death Munich, Germany
job hotelier
Games by division
Years Division Games
1987-1994
1984-1994 		1st Bundesliga
2nd Bundesliga 		66
67
Finals

DFB Cup 1993/94

Manfred Amerell (born February 25, 1947 in Munich ; † between December 6 and 11, 2012 there ) was a German football function and referee . From 1986 to 1994 he was a referee in 66 games in the Bundesliga ; He was a full-time hotelier .

life and career

Manfred Amerell was a national league player at TSV Milbertshofen . From 1970 to 1975 he was managing director at TSV 1860 Munich , from 1975 to 1979 in the same function at FC Augsburg and from 1979 to 1984 he was managing director at Karlsruher SC .

At the same time he directed soccer games in the youth and amateur field, where he was able to qualify for higher tasks. In the 1984/85 season he made his debut in the 2nd Bundesliga . On March 28, 1987, he whistled his first game in the 1st Bundesliga. In 1991 and 1994 he headed the DFB Supercup games. The highlight of his career was leading the 1994 DFB Cup final between Werder Bremen and Rot-Weiss Essen .

Since the end of his time as a referee, Amerell has been a functionary of the German Football Association , most recently as referee spokesman for the more than 80,000 referees active in the DFB. In this role, he repeatedly criticized the players' lack of respect for referee decisions and what, in his opinion, were inappropriate behavior of club officials on the sidelines. He spoke of “hypocrites on the bench” who would contribute to a “brutalization” of football. For the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel , Amerell commented on current referee decisions in the "Post-game" column.

Until November 2010, he ran a hotel in the Haunstetten district of Augsburg .

Amerell was married and had two adult twin daughters. He lived separately from his wife.

He was found dead in his Munich apartment on December 11, 2012. After an autopsy, the cause of death was a heart attack .

Resignation and referee affair

On February 9, 2010, Amerell announced that he was leaving his DFB offices for health reasons; He also gave up his work on the board of the South German Football Association (SFV). On February 12, he then declared that he was resigning from all offices because of the allegations made against him that he had approached an arbitrator under his care, Michael Kempter , with sexual intentions against his will, because the “publicly made preliminary convictions were of a magnitude have assumed that I and my family are no longer tolerable. ”Amerell also spoke of a smear campaign against his person. The DFB stated that the resignation was "right and necessary". DFB President Theo Zwanziger rejected legal action by the DFB against Amerell . The responsible public prosecutor in Augsburg had previously announced that Amerell was not being investigated.

On November 5, 2010 Amerell failed with an injunction against Theo Zwanziger before the Augsburg Regional Court . Amerell wanted to prevent that he could be accused of further breach of official duty. The court stated that there were documents and interrogation records from which violations of official duties could be read. In addition, Amerell himself testified that he had lost the necessary distance in relation to Michael Kempter. The judgment was confirmed in February 2011 by the Munich Higher Regional Court in the last instance.

In the same month, a civil lawsuit began in which Amerell accused Kempter of violating personal rights and sued for damages, since Kempter had denied that the relationship with Amerell was amicable. The lawsuit was initially dismissed in the first instance on May 12. On December 7, 2011, the lawsuit before the Stuttgart Higher Regional Court ended with a settlement. Kempter stated that it cannot be ruled out that in Amerell's perception his rejection of Amerell's advances could not have appeared clear enough. Amerell, in turn, waived his claim for damages. In the media, the verdict was largely viewed as Amerell's success, as the court found “great differences between Kember's statements before the German Football Association (DFB) and in court and those in the press”.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A. Bachner, S. Kiener, C. Kitsch, J. Völkering: Amerell planned a new attack on the DFB . In: Bild-Zeitung , December 13, 2012.
  2. ↑ Corpse found in Neuhausen: ex-referee Amerell dead! In: Abendzeitung , December 11, 2012.
  3. ↑ Referee reform planned: The fourth man should fix it . In: Spiegel Online , November 18, 2001.
  4. ^ Uprising of the referees: "These hypocrites on the bench" . In: Spiegel Online , March 16, 2005.
  5. ↑ His heart beats for the referees RP-online, March 5, 2010, accessed on July 24, 2016.
  6. ^ Angie Tim-Merkel: Manfred Amerell . Südkurier, February 12, 2010
  7. ↑ Harald Pistorius: "I no longer live - I only exist" . In: Donaukurier , April 26, 2012.
  8. ↑ JC Menzel Lopez, M. Dürr: Amerell found dead in Munich apartment. tz .de, December 11, 2012.
  9. ↑ a b DFB affair: Referee official Amerell offers to resign . In: Spiegel Online, February 12, 2010, accessed March 1, 2010.
  10. ↑ Amerell lawyer accuses Wack of "defamation". In: Kicker-Sportmagazin , March 1, 2010.
  11. ^ Referee scandal: DFB charges referee Amerell . In: Spiegel Online, February 12, 2010.
  12. ↑ Amerell talks about suicidal thoughts . Die Welt, February 17, 2010
  13. ↑ Amerell is legally defeated. In: Kicker-Sportmagazin, November 5, 2010.
  14. ↑ https://www.zeit.de/news-022011/1/iptc-bdt-20110201-439-28485216xml
  15. ↑ Amerell loses, but wants to keep fighting. In: Kicker-Sportmagazin, May 12, 2011.
  16. ↑ Amerell and Kempter come to an agreement. In: Sueddeutsche.de, December 7, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Amerell, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German football referee and official
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH before December 11, 2012
Place of death Munich