Kurt Landauer

Kurt Landau ( born July 28, 1884 in Planegg, † December 21, 1961 in Munich) was a businessman and football official and is honorary president of Bayern Munich.

Life

Landauer played in 1901 for the first time for the club. Even before the First World War he was in the years 1913 and 1914, President of the Association. In the subsequent terms, 1919-1933, the club grew steadily. Two South German Championships (1926 and 1928) and the finals of the German Championship (1926, 1928 and 1929 ) prove in this period the sporty rise of FC Bayern Munich. In 1932 he won with the club, the first German championship when FC Bayern defeated on 12 June 1932 at the final of the German Cup Eintracht Frankfurt 2-0.

In 1933, a year after the championship and the " seizure of power" of the Nazis, lost Kurt Landauer - because he was a Jew - his job as head of the advertising department at the Munich Latest News. He then had to give up even on 22 March 1933, his position as Bayern president. In 1938 he was interned one day after the pogrom for two months in the concentration camp Dachau and was able to flee to Switzerland after his release in 1939. Four of his siblings, however, were murdered by the Nazis. The Bayern players had not forgotten him: In a friendly match in Zurich, Switzerland in 1943, they ran to the stands and greeted their president warmly.

In 1947 he and Kurt Landauer back to Munich and was again to 1951, president of FC Bayern. On December 21, 1961 Kurt Landauer died in Munich. It is located on the New Israelite cemetery buried. At the AGM on 13 November 2013, the members of the Association have appointed him posthumously as honorary president.

Honors

  • In the district of Munich Freimann the Kurt Landauer pathway was named after him.
  • In the camp road to the former concentration camp at Dachau, Block 8, a memorial service connected to a witness interview took place on the occasion of Landauer's 125th birthday on July 27, 2009.
  • The " in-crowd Munich," the ultras grouping of Bayern, contributes annually from an anti-racism tournament for the Kurt Landauer Cup.
  • The TSV Munich Maccabi has called one of his courses ( Riemer Straße 300, Riem / München ) Kurt Landauer Square. There takes place annually on 21 July, the Kurt Landauer tournament.

Film

In 2010, the Kreisjugendring Munich City made ​​in cooperation with the National Socialist Documentation Center ( Munich), a documentary about the life of Kurt Landauer, the early history of FC Bayern and on the common work of Jews and non-Jews. The film Bend it like Kurt was with the Munich Civic Award Against Forgetting - For Democracy Award 2011.

In July 2013, the filming of a TV movie about the life of the landau, which is produced by Time Slip Pictures on behalf of BR, WDR and ARD Degeto and is to be aired in 2014 in the First.

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