Bayern-Maccabi.... i cheer for (11 Viewers)
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For almost a century, Bayern Munich has continued to be Germany’s best team. What is not well known is that it’s President from 1919, Kurt Landauer, who was Jewish ran the club from 1919 until the National Socialist’s rise to power forced him out in 1933. Another Jew, Richard Dombi, trained the team for three years. He too was forced to leave the team when the Nazis took over the country, and moved on the Netherlands where he picked up the reins of SC Feyenoord in Rotterdam, and laid the foundations for the future greatness of the club.
Unlike Munichs other Football team, which gained a reputation as a “Brownshirt Club”, Bayern had no particular political allegiance, and was known as a “Jews Club” due to the large support it had from people in the Jewish Community
It is interesting to note that after the war Kurt Landauer returned to Bayern and served a further term as President from 1947 to 1951, Up to now he is the club's president with the longest accumulated tenure. In the Munich suburb of Freimann a street is named after him.
It is reputed that while in exile in Switzerland during the war, many players used to visit him, which (according to Wiki) didn’t exactly endear them to the Nazi regime.
Unlike Munichs other Football team, which gained a reputation as a “Brownshirt Club”, Bayern had no particular political allegiance, and was known as a “Jews Club” due to the large support it had from people in the Jewish Community
It is interesting to note that after the war Kurt Landauer returned to Bayern and served a further term as President from 1947 to 1951, Up to now he is the club's president with the longest accumulated tenure. In the Munich suburb of Freimann a street is named after him.
It is reputed that while in exile in Switzerland during the war, many players used to visit him, which (according to Wiki) didn’t exactly endear them to the Nazi regime.
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