Fritz Keller | |
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13th President of the DFB | |
In office 27 September 2019 –17 May 2021 | |
Preceded by | Rainer Koch and Reinhard Rauball (acting) |
Succeeded by | Rainer Koch and Peter Peters (acting) |
Personal details | |
Born | Friedrich Walter Keller 2 April 1957 Freiburg im Breisgau,West Germany |
Friedrich Walter Keller (born 2 April 1957) is a German football administrator and former president SC Freiburg. In 2019,he was elected president German Football Association. [1] [2] He resigned from office in May 2021. [3]
Born in Freiburg,Germany. He has worked is whole life in his restaurant and winery and was elected ″Winemaker of the Year 2019″by Gault &Millau Wine Guide [4] Together with his family and later joined the German football association where he became chairman in Freiburg SC role known as president from 2010 till 2019. [5]
He was the only candidate for presidential post in August proposed,later poll a vote of 257 out 500 and replaces Reinhard Grindel as the 13th president of the German football body,a seven million members association. [6] [7] Keller was criticised strongly after comparing his vice-president Rainer Koch to the Nazi judge Roland Freisler in April 2021. On 11 May 2021,he announced that he would be stepping down from office. [8]
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