Hermann Gösmann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German lawyer (1904-1979)
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Place of Birth: Ibbenbüren, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
About Hermann Gösmann
- Hermann Gösmann (9 January 1904, in Ibbenbüren – 21 January 1979, in Osnabrück) was a German lawyer and football administrator, and from 1962 to 1975 he was president of the German Football Association (German: Deutscher Fußball-Bund, DFB). Gösmann participated along with Franz Kremer, then president of 1.
- FC Köln, and Hermann Neuberger, the eventual successor from Gösmann, in the founding of the Bundesliga.
- Gösmann was a lawyer by profession.
- He was elected president during a DFB-Bundestag on July 28, 1962 in the Westfalenhallen in Dortmund.
- Also during this Bundestag the Bundesliga was founded.The Bundesliga scandal in the 1970s was during his tenure.
- Gösmann had offices in international sport.
- In 1964, he was elected to the UEFA Executive Committee and took over as chair in the UEFA Amateur Commission.
- Four years later Gösmann was reelected.
- He died at the age of 75 in Osnabrück due to pulmonary embolism.
- He was buried in the Heger cemetery in Osnabrück.
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