Hans Kindermann (10 February 1922 in

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– 3 November 2018) was a German

jurist A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyses and comments on law. This person is usually a specialist legal scholar, mostly (but not always) with a formal qualification in law and often a legal practitioner. In the Uni ...

. Kindermann was a member of the Control Committee of the

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(German: DFB-Kontrollausschuss) since 1963 and became its chairman in 1970. In this position, he investigated the Bundesliga scandal in 1971. The media referred to Kindermann as the "DFB chief prosecutor". He clarified the scandal, in which the parties involved were partially pronounced draconian punishments. In civil life, Kindermann was a judge, where he last worked at the district court of

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. In 1992, he received the

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, First Class. In October 1992 he left the Control Committee of the German Football Association. Kindermann is an honorary member of the German Football Association. He died on 3 November 2018, aged 96.

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