Felix Linnemann

Felix Linnemann (Born October 20, 1882 in Steinhorst, died March 21 1948) was, from 1925 to 1945, the fourth Deutscher Fußball-Bund (DFB, German Football League) president.

Felix Linnemann was born at the edge of the Lüneburger Heide, he grew up there, and went on to study at the University in Münster, where he was a student of all four faculties. In, 1919 Linnemann was selected as the Vice-President of the DFB.

The upper government and Kriminalrat sat down also at the point of the DFB, so that it replaced 1925 Gottfried Hinze as a fourth DFB president. It was considered as more penetration - strongly more honest, pragmatic, and wanted to professionalize the sport of soccer in Germany. However the political reversal made a line for it in the year 1933 by the calculation. The political sport leaders wanted to, as often as possible, present the football players at the ball in international matches as demonstration of national strength. Sport became an instrument of propaganda. Otto Nerz was discovered and appointed by Linnemann as the national team coach. After its resignation the DFB president ordered Sepp Herberger, which he had pushed 1921 on a journey to Finland for coach training, which thanked it time life, to the successor. It inserted the systematic training of thttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egidius_Braun Egidius Braunhe national players in courses and training camps and worried themselves also about the training of the team coaches. Both mink and Herberger carried again and again the idea of a realm league to it near. The Second World War prevented the implementation of a football league in Germany.

Felix Linnemann announced the end of the DFB under the rule of Adolf Hitler. Already on 9 July 1933 authorized a unanimous resolution of football Bundestag the chairman Linnemann to make all personnel and material measures to the integration of the football haven in the program of the Reichssportkommissariats and the transformation of the DFB. With the police officer Linnemann found this order open ears. It was to be dissolved proudly the organization in order to be able to be integrated still more strongly into the evenly created realm federation for leibesuebungen of the Nazi Party.

DFB president Linnemann, which was active also a curator at the university for leibesuebungen in Berlin and as a member of the amateur commission of the FIFA, lost at meaning. In the process of the yearly 1937 it was shifted officially as a boss of the kriminalpolizei from Berlin to Stettin and to attach to Hanover. After end of war it sat six months in the internment camp with the Englishmen in Lüneburger Heide; the Nazis had transferred the entire police with appropriate service ranks of the officials during the war obligatorily to the SS. Linnemann died in 1948, in his homeland village, where he was buried.