Walter Fembeck

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Walter Fembeck (born February 15, 1921 in Vienna , Austria ; † January 24, 2020 in Oberaudorf , Germany ) was a German sports official. From 1957 to 1983 he was managing director of FC Bayern Munich .

Life

Walter Fembeck joined the Waffen SS in 1938 after the “Anschluss” and ended up being Oberscharführer.

Fembeck was head of the handball department at FC Bayern in the 1950s , until he took over as managing director after Karl Ambach's death . He owed Gerd Müller's commitment in the spring of 1964, whom he snatched away at the last minute from his manager colleague Ludwig Maierböck from TSV 1860 Munich - Maierböck, it is said, had problems with the train schedule. Other obligations of the Grantler were players such as Rainer Ohlhauser , Dieter Koulmann , Franz Roth and Gustav Jung . He took among othersBernd Dürnberger , Kurt Niedermayer , Norbert Janzon and Klaus Augenthaler under contract.

With President Wilhelm Neudecker , the father of the modern FC Bayern, Fembeck is one of the people who ultimately helped the club to gain international recognition after its near bankruptcy at the end of the 1950s and the fact that it was not taken into account when the Bundesliga was founded.

"We had no money! In our former office on Sonnenstrasse I had a secretary, Frau Maier; the players' salaries were cash in wage packets . And we had to rely on the youth, so Čajkovski was a good coach. So we rose in 1965 and were able to keep the young stars. "

When manager Robert Schwan was dismissed in December 1977 , after Franz Beckenbauer's personal advisor found him a new job in New York, Fembeck also took on the position of manager at Bayern for a year and a half and was thus the direct predecessor of Uli Hoeneß .

At the age of almost 63, Fembeck was still training his successor Karl Hopfner , who took office in July 1983.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Message on fcbayern.com
  2. ↑ Holocaust commemoration and Bundesliga article in the taz of January 26, 2020. Accessed on January 28, 2020.
  3. ↑ Patrick Strasser: Walter Fembeck: "The player's salary was cash in wage cones" . Evening newspaper , Munich, February 14, 2011.
  4. ↑ Mario Volpe: Karl Hopfner: "Money Shoots Goals" . ( Memento of May 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) tz , July 4, 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Fembeck, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports official
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 2020