Toon Schröder

Schröder on his departure as KNVB President (1966)

Antoon Louis Marie "Toon" Schröder (born April 19, 1893 in Eindhoven , † November 13, 1976 in Breda ) was a Dutch football official . Between 1957 and 1966 he was chairman of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Voetbal Bond (KNVB).

Career

Schröder was the son of a cigar manufacturer from the province of Noord-Brabant . In December 1909 he joined EVV Eindhoven , which had been founded just a few weeks earlier, and quickly succeeded in the competition team. He later became chairman of the association, which he strengthened after financial problems following the First World War by merging with local rival Gestel in 1921. He became president of the Noord-Brabant Football Association, whose cup competition is named after him. On October 26, 1957, he was appointed chairman of the KNVB as the successor to Hans Hopster , during whose four-year term of office the introduction of the sometimes controversial professional football in the Netherlands fell. While with Elek Schwartz a bond coach was allowed to work with the senior national team for the first time after the Second World War and was in office from 1957 to 1964, Schröder continued to strengthen the amateur spirit and promoted the Dutch amateur national team , with whom he was supervised by the former bond coach Karel Kaufman , for example 1959 in the run-up to the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome for the international match against the Italian amateur team . In 1966 he was succeeded as KNVB president by Wim Meuleman , a functionary also from the EEV group. He kept his previously received seat on the National Olympic Committee .

In 1922 he married Theodora Maria Josephina Schoenmakers with whom he had five children. In 1976 Schröder died at the age of 83. His main job was to temporarily manage the Zuid-Nederlandse Zeemlederfabriek in Oosterhout .

Individual evidence

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