He was a right-winger with a penchant for reactionary slogan. But he has also reformed the German football. Now Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder has died.
Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder | © Bernd white bread / dpa
From the MV effect Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder told himself like: Who him , the right wing of the CDU, personally met, was surprised. The was disarmed by the courtesy and the wit of a witty interlocutor. This was different from the one they knew from television or the newspaper. Who sat opposite him, had to admit that he was a suddenly sympathetic. Even if a disgusted his sentences and conversations. Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder also kept his sharpest critics the door with a smile on.
And MV, as he was known, had some critics. Former finance and culture minister of Baden-Württemberg was one of a generation of politicians, understand the handing out and plugging as part of the game. In postwar Germany they fought other battles than today. “I stood almost daily in the trenches,” he once said. Born in 1933, the year the Nazis seized power, he cut out sayings with which curators assembled by Tatort Stadion , an initiative against racism in football, partition walls.
In 1987, he likened squatters and left demonstrators with the SA. His mentor Hans Filbinger he defended, although the former military judge of the Navy had to resign in 1978 by his political offices. He had learned from him, said Mayer-Vorfelder, “always to fight with open visor.” Primary school children wanted to teach all the verses of the German anthem of educational policy Mayer-Vorfelder.
That is why there were many who believe that Mayer-Vorfelder should never have been DFB president. For them he was a member of the black felt and a cipher for the ultra-conservative, stripping withdrawing football boss. For active periods, as president of VfB Stuttgart (1975-2000), chairman of the league committee of the DFB (1986-2000) as well as DFB president (2001-2006) was, his reputation disastrous. Also because he had mitgedealt in FIFA and UEFA committees and a close relationship with Armin Klümper used, the doping guru from Freiburg. In the Stuttgart stadium hardly went a game without “Vorfelder out” choirs. As he replaced Theo Zwanziger at the DFB-peak, many were relieved.
But today we can say that Germany would not become a world champion last year without Mayer-Vorfelder, without exaggeration. Not only has he made the national coach Jürgen Klinsmann in 2004, of the DFB gave important impulses. Above all, it was Mayer-Vorfelder, the work of young people in German football after the weak Euro 2000 reformed. Just as Mario Götze, André Schürrle and Thomas Müller were among the top footballers that they are now.
Mayer-Vorfelder realized then that the German football for many years rested on success and the youth work was neglected. So he set up throughout the country, a close network of bases for a talent. Professional clubs was only recommended to made later to rest, to entertain youth academies, which are certified on a regular basis. The A-Youth Bundesliga was founded, which was later followed by the B-Youth Bundesliga.
The sporting ideas came from others, but it needed someone with stamina and sports political weight, which permeated this program. It cost so money. It took the insight to have lost the connection to the world peak.
“At the time, there was resistance in the league, there was feared to be spoon-fed by the DFB,” said Mayer-Vorfelder, when he was honorary president. “Now, many decorate it.” His successor Wolfgang Niersbach honors him today as “a formative figure in German football”. The recent successes were due to decisions that have Mayer-Vorfelder helped shape.
The fact that the German world title by Mesut, Jérôme and Sami was earned, would the young MV perhaps a reactionary slogan about “blond Germanic been “worth it. But with the social reality of migration of old MV had his peace concluded. For the SA Comparison of the squatters he apologized. Winfried Kretschmann, the first green prime minister of Ländles, he estimated. And the Mayer-Vorfelder of 2011 sounded like this: “How nice that the Germans have developed without chauvinism a relaxed approach to national symbols.”
You can read Mayer-Vorfelders life as a development novel in which the protagonist matures and reaches insights. Late, but still. Now it ends. Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder died on Monday aged 82 after a long illness in his native Stuttgart
video interview in 2011.
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