Knut Kircher

Knut Kircher ( born February 2, 1969) is a German football referee.

Life

Kircher studied after graduating from the University of Albstadt -Sigmaringen engineering. An engineering graduate, lives in Rottenburg, is married and father of three children. His main job is working at Daimler AG and, besides lectures.

Football

Kircher is referee of the TSV Hirschau, since 1997 DFB referee since 1998 and the second league referee.

Since the 2001/2002 season, he is referee in the Bundesliga, 2004, he was FIFA referee. His Bundesliga debut he celebrated on September 8, 2001 at the home game against TSV 1860 Munich 1 FC Nuremberg. The first senior international match under his leadership was the World Cup qualifying match between Andorra and Romania. The high point of his career was the referee DFB Cup Final 2008 between Borussia Dortmund and FC Bayern Munich ( 1:2 aet). On July 23, 2011, he also led the game in Gelsenkirchen Veltins- Arena to the Supercup 2011 between Schalke 04 and Borussia Dortmund.

On 25 May 2012, the DFB announced that Kircher was voted Referee of the Year in 2012.

On August 17, 2012 it was announced that Kircher, alongside Michael Weiner, voluntarily for the end of 2012 as a FIFA referee. As the successor to both Christian and Tobias Welz Dingert were nominated.

Mechanical engineering Michael Weiner (referee) Felix Brych Bastian Dankert Peter Gagelmann Florian Meyer Markus Schmidt (referee) Peter Sippel Wolfgang Stark Tobias Stieler Felix Zwayer 1935 Tschammerpokal 1936 Tschammerpokal 1937 Tschammerpokal 1938 Tschammerpokal 1939 Tschammerpokal 1940 Tschammerpokal 1941 Tschammerpokal 1942 Tschammerpokal 1943 Tschammerpokal 1952–53 DFB-Pokal 1953–54 DFB-Pokal 1954–55 DFB-Pokal 1955–56 DFB-Pokal 1956–57 DFB-Pokal 1957–58 DFB-Pokal 1958–59 DFB-Pokal 1959–60 DFB-Pokal 1960–61 DFB-Pokal 1961–62 DFB-Pokal 1962–63 DFB-Pokal 1963–64 DFB-Pokal 1964–65 DFB-Pokal 1965–66 DFB-Pokal 1966–67 DFB-Pokal 1967–68 DFB-Pokal 1968–69 DFB-Pokal 1969–70 DFB-Pokal 1970–71 DFB-Pokal 1971–72 DFB-Pokal Heinz Aldinger 1972–73 DFB-Pokal Kurt Tschenscher 1973–74 DFB-Pokal 1974–75 DFB-Pokal 1975–76 DFB-Pokal Walter Eschweiler 1976–77 DFB-Pokal 1978–79 DFB-Pokal 1979–80 DFB-Pokal 1980–81 DFB-Pokal 1981–82 DFB-Pokal Gerd Hennig 1982–83 DFB-Pokal 1983–84 DFB-Pokal Volker Roth 1984–85 DFB-Pokal 1985–86 DFB-Pokal Dieter Pauly 1986–87 DFB-Pokal 1988–89 DFB-Pokal Karl-Heinz Tritschler 1989–90 DFB-Pokal 1990–91 DFB-Pokal Aron Schmidhuber 1991–92 DFB-Pokal Bernd Heynemann 1992–93 DFB-Pokal Markus Merk 1993–94 DFB-Pokal 1994–95 DFB-Pokal Hellmut Krug 1996–97 DFB-Pokal 1997–98 DFB-Pokal 1998–99 DFB-Pokal 1999–2000 DFB-Pokal 2000–01 DFB-Pokal 2001–02 DFB-Pokal 2002–03 DFB-Pokal 2003–04 DFB-Pokal Herbert Fandel 2004–05 DFB-Pokal 2005–06 DFB-Pokal 2006–07 DFB-Pokal 2007–08 DFB-Pokal 2008–09 DFB-Pokal 2009–10 DFB-Pokal 2010–11 DFB-Pokal 2011–12 DFB-Pokal 2012–13 DFB-Pokal Integrated Authority File
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