Hermann Gösmann (9 January 1904 – 21 January 1979) 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
Hermann Neuberger (12 December 1919 – 27 September 1992) was the seventh president of the German Football Association (''Deutscher Fußball-Bund'', DFB) from 1975 until his death in office in 1992.
Career
Neuberger, son of two teachers, gre ...
, the eventual successor from Gösmann, in the founding of the
Bundesliga
The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of the German football league system, the Bundesliga is Germany's primary footba ...
. Gösmann was a lawyer by profession. He was elected president during a ''
DFB-Bundestag The DFB-Bundestag (National Conference) is the highest body of the German Football Association (german: Deutscher Fussball-Bund, DFB). As football parliament it is the legislative assembly of the DFB.
Structure
The DFB-Bundestag convenes regularly ...
'' on July 28, 1962 in the
Westfalenhallen
Westfalenhallen (English: Halls of Westphalia) is a commercial complex composed of conference (Kongresszentrum Dortmund) and exhibition centers (Messe Dortmund) with an indoor arena (Westfalenhalle), located in Dortmund, Germany. It is surroun ...
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
Union of European Football Associations (UEFA ; french: Union des associations européennes de football; german: Union der europäischen Fußballverbände) is one of six continental bodies of governance in association football. It governs f ...
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
Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a blockage of an artery in the lungs by a substance that has moved from elsewhere in the body through the bloodstream ( embolism). Symptoms of a PE may include shortness of breath, chest pain particularly upon breathin ...
. He was buried in the Heger cemetery in Osnabrück.
References
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1904 births
1979 deaths
People from Ibbenbüren
People from the Province of Westphalia
German football chairmen and investors
20th-century German lawyers
Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany