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Friedrich Wilhelm Nohe (10 April 1864 – 13 October 1940) was a German teacher, football player, and football administrator. From 1904 to 1905 he was the President of the German Football Association (german: Deutscher Fußball-Bund, DFB). Nohe got to know the game of football when he was a teacher of modern languages at a military school in
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. When he moved to
Karlsruhe Karlsruhe ( , , ; South Franconian: ''Kallsruh'') is the third-largest city of the German state (''Land'') of Baden-Württemberg after its capital of Stuttgart and Mannheim, and the 22nd-largest city in the nation, with 308,436 inhabitants. ...
in 1896, he had already been playing for five years. In Karlsruhe, he joined the
Karlsruher FV Karlsruher FV is a German association football club that plays in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg. Established on 17 November 1891, KFV was a founding member of the German Football Association (Deutscher Fussball-Bund) in 1900 and is the oldest ...
football club and was elected as chairman of the club in October 1896. A year later he was involved, as a representative of the Karlsruher FV, in the founding of the
Southern German Football Association The Southern German Football Association (german: Süddeutscher Fussball-Verband), the ''SFV'', is one of five regional organisations of the German Football Association, the ''DFB'', and covers the states of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria and Hesse. ...
(german: Süddeutscher Fussball-Verband, SFV). In 1898, Nohe was elected first chairman of SFV. He remained chairman until 1907 and during his nearly ten-year term, the association grew to nearly 200 clubs with 10,000 members. In addition to his position as Chairman of SFV, Nohe was also President of the German Football Association from 22 May 1904 to 21 May 1905.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Nohe, Friedrich Wilhelm 1864 births 1940 deaths German football chairmen and investors