Fritz Keller
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Fritz Keller

German football administrator (born 1957)

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.2

From Wikipedia’s article on Fritz Keller (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born Apr 2, 1957.1

About

He resigned from office in May 2021.

From Wikipedia’s article on Fritz Keller, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2

Companies

Early life and education

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 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.

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. 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.

From Wikipedia’s article on Fritz Keller (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Career

Occupation: sports official, entrepreneur, hotel manager, functionary, hotel owner, winegrower.6

Personal life

  • BornApr 2, 1957, Freiburg im Breisgau7
  • CitizenshipGermany8

Awards

  • Date not recordedKnight in the Order of the Holy Sepulchre9