Gerhard Mayer -Vorfelder is dead. As his family announced on Tuesday, the former president of the German Football Association, died on Monday in a Stuttgart hospital of a heart attack. “MV” was 82 years old.
Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder is dead. As his family announced on Tuesday, died the former president of the German Football Association (DFB) on Monday at the age of 82 years in a Stuttgart hospital surrounded by his family. Details were not disclosed.
“MV”, as Mayer-Vorfelder was often called, is survived by his wife and four children.
“With Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder is an influential figure of the German football, “DFB president Wolfgang Niersbach said in a DFB statement. “I got to know him in all these years as a straight, resolute and competent person who has worked with great dedication to the sport and thereby always had the needs of players in mind.”
Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder has like polarized. “I’m almost been a day in the trenches, around me, the poison arrows geschwirrt”, the man of power and multi functionary once said of his daily struggles.
Whether as president of Bundesliga club VfB Stuttgart and the German Football Association (DFB) or as CDU ministers were well looked after – Mayer-Vorfelder knowledgable with a powerful headwind. And the juggler of power knew how dazzling to keep for years in various leadership positions. Tactical sense, shiny networking, immense stamina -. Those were just three ingredients, which began in the tough and uncompromising conservatives
Mayer-Vorfelder had promoted will
“I was always the one who I was – with all the good and less good sides, “described” MV I am a bit proud that I have in all the years can not be bend “
Improving the will he showed early. Mayer-Vorfelder was born on March 3, 1933 Mannheim. After studying law in Freiburg and Heidelberg it took his career Baden Wurtemberg, first in 1959 as a Government to Nürtingen. After joining the Ministry of the Interior of ambitious and intelligent lawyer started as a personal assistant to the former department heads and later Prime Minister Hans Filbinger his political career.
“MV” was long for the VfB Stuttgart
Several leading positions followed. Not infrequently, “MV” had to deal with the accusation, to conduct its business lord of the manor. 1975 coup, the former center half of SV Waldshut to the top of VfB Stuttgart – and remained a quarter of a century an enigmatic and sometimes narcissistic Boss
“Without him. it would no longer give the club, “the former VfB trainer Jürgen Sundermann once said about the workaholic who, however, had retreated in recent years, notably from the public.
” He has everything from conviction done “
With his departure from VfB 2000 Mayer-Vorfelder left a mountain of debt amounting to millions. “You could at all offices, which he did, always feel that his heart beats for VfB,” certified him the current DFB boss Wolfgang Niersbach. “MV” was a man of the world, the “Stuttgart has always remained”.
And a sensualist. A fine meal, a good wine – the Gaumenkitzel was the longtime DFB boss never averse. “From ‘MV’ you can learn a lot,” said Germany coach Joachim Loew the “kicker” once. “He has done everything from conviction and consistently acted upon.”
The “Summer Fairy Tale” was his personal highlight
Mayer-Vorfelder was for Löw a decisive person, finally gave the Mannheimer the Freiburg VfB 1996 first job as head coach – the later dismissal was included
His “life goal” the father of four children reached by its own account with the orientation of the 2006 World Cup in their own country.. The match for third place won the DFB-selection time against Portugal just in Stuttgart. “That was the highlight of my life,” says “MV” recalled this World Cup summer fairytale
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