Felix Linnemann
Male, Deceased Person
1882 – 1948
Who was Felix Linnemann?
Felix Linnemann was the fourth president of the German football association, the Deutscher Fußball-Bund, serving from 1925 to 1940.
Felix Linnemann was born and grew up at the edge of the Lüneburger Heide and went to the University of Münster, where he was a student of all four faculties. In 1919, Linnemann was appointed vice-president of the DFB.
The upper government and Kriminalrat exerted influence on the DFB, so that Linneman replaced Gottfried Hinze as DFB president in 1925. The move was considered as more penetration, and wanted a more honest, pragmatic, professional soccer in Germany. However, the political reversal made a line for it in 1933 by the calculation. The political sport leaders often wanted to present the football players at the ball in international matches as demonstration of national strength, making sport become an instrument of propaganda. Otto Nerz was discovered and appointed by Linnemann as the national team coach. After his resignation, the DFB president appointed Sepp Herberger, to become the new coach. The systematic training of Egidius Braunhe began to be used to train both players and coaches at this time. Both Linnemann and Herberger carried the idea of a Reichsliga, but the Second World War prevented the implementation of a football league in Germany. Linnemann had proposed the league to the regional football associations in 1932 but it had been vetoed.
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- Born
- Oct 20, 1882
Steinhorst, Lower Saxony - Nationality
- Germany
- Died
- Mar 21, 1948
Steinhorst, Lower Saxony
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on July 23, 2013
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