Walter Baresel

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Walter Baresel (born December 30, 1913 in Hamburg ; † June 19, 1998 there ) was a German football official.

Walter Baresel was active as a football player for the Hamburg district club SC Concordia from 1927 onwards . The Wandsbeker played in the Hamburg district class in the 1930s and in the Gauliga Nordmark in the first two years of the war . After his active career, the trained businessman replaced Friedrich Pohlmann as chairman of the association in the post-war years; he held this position from 1947 to 1950. From 1953 to 1964 and again from 1973 to 1986 he was head of the game committee at the North German Football Association (NFV). As a North German representative, he was a member of the five-person commission of the German Football Association (DFB), which, in the run-up to the football Bundesliga introduced in 1963, determined the 16 clubs that should belong to the new top division, taking into account the twelve-year rating .

After founding the Bundesliga, he was game director at the DFB from 1963 to 1975, among other things responsible for scheduling. He then took over the chairmanship of the game committee of the DFB. In this role he became known to a broader public when he regularly led the draw for the DFB Cup games in the ARD sports show . In 1986 he resigned from his offices, which he had also worked on numerous bodies at UEFA , the DFB and the NFV.

Walter Baresel died of heart failure in his hometown in 1998 at the age of 84. He was an honorary member of the DFB, the North German and Hamburg Football Associations and SC Concordia.

Sources / individual references

  1. ↑ Axel Juckenack, Werner Platt Hoff, Jens-Peter Schneider: Concordia Hamburg from 1907 e. V. Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2005, ISBN 3-89702-724-0 , p. 127
  2. ↑ Bernd Jankowski, Harald Pistorius, Jens Reimer Prüß : Football in the North. 100 years of the North German Football Association. History, chronicle, names, dates, facts, figures. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2005, ISBN 3-89784-270-X , p. 202 and 391.
  3. ^ Andreas Meyer, Volker Stahl, Uwe Wetzner: Football Lexicon Hamburg . Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-477-1 , p. 50 (396 pages).

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SURNAME Baresel, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German football official
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 1998
Place of death Hamburg