Football World Cup 2006 / Organizing Committee

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The 2006 World Cup Organizing Committee ( OK for short ) organized the World Cup in Germany . The President of the OC was Franz Beckenbauer , who also appeared as the official representative and was the chairman of the German World Cup bid.

First Vice President and Deputy President of the World Cup Committee was Horst Schmidt , Secretary General of the German Football Association (DFB) . The area of ​​responsibility of the executive vice-president of the OC was diverse and included game and competition matters, stadiums, ticket sales, transport and traffic, security, legal matters, personnel, finances, planning and control, medical care, administration and secretariat.

Wolfgang Niersbach was the executive vice president and press chief of the World Cup committee. Niersbach was responsible for marketing, press and public relations, accreditation, information technology, media and telecommunications, events and the team quarters.

Fedor Radmann was Vice President of the OC until 2003, followed by Theo Zwanziger . Zwanziger's area of ​​responsibility included general organization, law, finances and also personnel decisions in the run-up to the World Cup.

The organizing committee was controlled by the supervisory board and the board of trustees. Well-known personalities such as Federal Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble , the former Federal Interior Minister Otto Schily , the President of the German Football Association Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder , Thomas Bach from the International Olympic Committee , Werner Hackmann , the President of the German Football League , and the former footballer sat on the Supervisory Board Günter Netzer as a sports rights marketer.

Supervisory board

Board of Trustees

Advice to the OK

The World Cup committee was also supported and advised by the sports committee of the German Bundestag . The sports committee had exchanged views with the OC on several occasions on this subject, for example in June 2003 about the opportunities and prospects for tourist marketing of the major football event. Members in the electoral period until 2006 were fifteen MPs from the SPD , CDU / CSU , Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen and the FDP . The chairman of the sports committee was Peter Rauen from the CDU, who was also on the board of trustees of the OK.

International ambassadors

One of the representatives and ambassadors of the World Cup was the national coach of the German national team Jürgen Klinsmann . The world and European champions (from 1990 and 1996) qualified for this through his international career and his foreign language skills. He played in Italy, France, England and lives in the United States. Oliver Bierhoff also comes from the area of ​​responsibility of the national team . He is the national team manager and was European champion in 1996. Bierhoff shot Germany for the title with a golden goal and he was one of the best strikers in the Italian Serie A in the 1990s at Udinese Calcio and AC Milan . Another representative of the World Cup was the football functionary Karl-Heinz Rummenigge . FC Bayern Munich's chairman of the board was European champion in 1980 and was vice-president of the association of major European clubs " G-14 " as well as within the UEFA president of the European club forum. Rudi Völler was the former captain of the German national team and the predecessor of Jürgen Klinsmann. The former international striker should also represent Germany in the world.

Head of organization Franz Beckenbauer named other World Cup ambassadors, all of them former soccer professionals, who were to officially accompany their hometowns and at the same time the World Cup host cities on the way to the World Cup: