Wilhelm Neudecker

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Wilhelm Neudecker (born October 24, 1913 in Straubing ; † December 24, 1993 in Munich ) was a German building contractor and from 1962 to 1979 president of FC Bayern Munich . He was made honorary president. From 1975 to 1986 Neudecker was chairman of the DFB league committee.

Life

Under Neudecker's presidency (1962–1979), FC Bayern Munich advanced to become a world club with multiple European Cup victories and German championship titles in the Bundesliga .

After taking office, the wealthy building contractor invested a lot of money in the then second-rate regional league club , primarily through the obligations of the then established professional coach Zlatko Čajkovski in 1963 and the first manager of a football club, Robert Schwan . In 1965 he was promoted to the Bundesliga.

During his term of office there were further long-term coaching commitments such as those of Branko Zebec , Udo Lattek and Dettmar Cramer as well as the development of the top team around Franz Beckenbauer , Gerd Müller , Sepp Maier , Paul Breitner , Uli Hoeneß and Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck , whereby all the named players, the also belonged to the European championship team from 1972 and the world championship team from 1974, either came from their own youth or were taken out of the amateur camp as adolescents (the later star striker Karl-Heinz Rummenigge also came as an 18-year-old and made his first Bundesliga game at Bayern). The first expensive transfers did not take place until 1973 after eight years of membership in the Bundesliga ( Jupp Kapellmann and Conny Torstensson ). By 1976, under Neudecker, Bayern Munich had won the German soccer championship four times, the DFB Cup four times, the European Champion 's Cup three times and the European Cup Winners' Cup and the World Cup once each .

After the club under Neudecker's leadership had temporarily risen to become the best club in the world in the mid-1970s, the decline of the powerful, patriarchal club president became apparent towards the end of the 1970s, which, however, also went hand in hand with the sporting decline of the team, which either like Franz Beckenbauer left the club or had to pay tribute to age. Mainly his authoritarian, outdated management style led to resentment and tension between the team and the president, which led to an open power struggle in 1979: In a sporting crisis, Neudecker had promised the team not to hire a new coach for the time being. Single-handedly, he then made the decision to employ Max Merkel, who is considered particularly authoritarian (and former 1860s), as the new trainer instead of the interim acting Pál Csernai . Under the leadership of the then captain Sepp Maier and Paul Breitners , the team then announced that they would go on strike. Neudecker took this hitherto unique rebellion of a football team against a senior club official as an immediate occasion to resign on March 24, 1979.

Honors

literature

  • Good friends - the true story of FC Bayern Munich. Blessingverlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-453-60051-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://einestages.spiegel.de : Bayern Uprising - Putsch with Paul.
  2. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 31, No. 45, March 6, 1979.
personal data
SURNAME Neudecker, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German building contractor and football official
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Straubing
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1993
Place of death Munich