Helmut Käser (14 November 1912 – 11 May 1994) served as the

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, the international governing body of

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, from April 1960 to June 1981. He served under three presidents of FIFA, Englishmen Arthur Drewry (1955–1961) and

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(1961–1974), and under Brazilian

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from 1974 to 1981. Käser was succeeded by

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. Two months after Käser was forced to retire from FIFA, Blatter married Käser's daughter, Barbara. That means, by 1981, Blatter had taken his father-in-law's job as well as his daughter (Käser did not attend the wedding). Käser was an officer of the Swiss army; he worked as a civil servant in Switzerland at the Federal Department of Economic Affairs and became the general secretary of the

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in May 1942. He died in 1994 in Küsnacht near

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