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

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of FIFA, the international governing body of

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, from April 1960 to June 1981. He served under three presidents of FIFA, Englishmen

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(1955–1961) and

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(1961–1974), and under Brazilian

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from 1974 to 1981. Käser was succeeded by Sepp Blatter. 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

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and became the general secretary of the

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in May 1942. He died in 1994 in

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near Zurich.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kaser, Helmut 1912 births 1994 deaths FIFA officials People from Alb-Donau-Kreis People from Zürich Swiss military officers 20th-century Swiss lawyers