From 1875 to mid 1880, the first type of football played in Germany, according to the rules of Rugby. Later, the type association football teams formed a club in hand, and by 1890, began to organize regional and national level.
DFB (Deutscher Fussball-Bund) was founded in Leipzig in 1900 by representatives of 86 clubs. DFB consolidated the numerous state-based German regional competitions in the game for a single national title recognized for the 1902-1903 season. The Germans were not present in Paris when FIFA was founded by seven nations in May 1904, but the time that the FIFA statutes came into force on 1 September, Germany had also joined by telegram that the eighth nation. The German national team played its first game in 1908.
Before 1914, the German Empire was much larger than today's Germany, including Alsace-Lorraine and in the eastern provinces. The boundaries of the regional associations have been established according to the proper lane. In addition, teams based in Bohemia, then part of Austria-Hungary, were eligible, as it was surrounded on three sides by the German Empire. A team of Prague, was a finalist in the German championship. On the other hand, the clubs of the Danish minority in North Schleswig refused to join the DFB. This region after the First World War, which voted to join Denmark. Due to changes in the boundaries imposed by the Treaty of Versailles, the DFB had to adapt its structure. Saar, Danzig and Memel territory were separated from Germany and East Prussia was cut off from the main part by the Polish Corridor.
The role of the DFB and its representatives as Felix Linnemann over Nazi Germany has been documented in 100 Jahre DFB and Nils Havemann to Fußball unterm Hakenkreuz. [1] According Gleichschaltung policy, the DFB, with its large number of members of all political sides, and strong regional structures compared to the national weakness, sent to the new leaders and new structures Gau. At a brief meeting July 9, 1933 in Berlin, the DFB have at least formally. Later, Hitler salutes compulsory, Marxists and Jews were expelled. A new organization, the Deutscher Bundesamt für Leibesübungen Reich (German Reich League for the year) was established and was appointed head of its Linnemann Fachamt Fußball (football section), which took over operational matters, while the DFB lost most of its functions until it was officially dissolved in 1940.
On the track, Germany had done in 1934, but after a 0-2 loss in the Summer Olympics of 1936, with Adolf Hitler to attend, the DFB and football fell out of favor. Reich, Hitler Youth Baldur von Schirach and Hitlerjugend took over youth football (under 16) clubs, after an agreement with the sport of Reich Führer und Hans von Osten Tschammer, who was in charge of all sports Germany since 1933, making DFB officials even more helpless. Germany had made an offer to host the 1938 World Cup, but it was removed without comment.
After the Anschluss in March 1938 that Austria is part of Germany, the Austrian Football Federation became part of the German federation. The new coach Sepp Herberger was told in a short period of time to use players from Austria also his team was eliminated in the first round of the World Cup, the weakening of the state of football in the Nazi near insignificance . Four German (Hans Jakob, Albin Kitzinger, Ernst Ludwig Lehner and Goldbrunner) represented in Western Europe in a pleasant FIFA 20 June 1937 in Amsterdam, and two others (Kitzinger over and Anderl Kupfer) represents a continental team October 26th FIFA 1938 in London, England.
During the war, Germany has played international matches until the 1942nd In the wake of World War II, German organizations were dissolved by the Allies. FIFA decided in November 1945 to prohibit any DFB most current (and Japan) from international competition. International Germans were still represented, based in Zurich Ivo Schrick serves as secretary general of FIFA 1932-1950 December. In 1948, Switzerland asked FIFA to lift the ban on playing against the Germans, but this was denied. Swiss clubs playing German clubs anyway, but had to stop doing so because of international protests. It was only changed in 1949 when the Football Association asked FIFA to lift the ban on games of the club. FIFA issued May 7, 1949, two weeks before the Federal Republic of Germany was founded, which game requires permission of the military governments of the time.
Because the partition of several zones of occupation, and the United States, the DFB was legally re-established in Stuttgart January 21, 1950, only for the West German regional associations, but the Football Association, the French occupied Saarland Saarland, which, June 12, 1950 would be recognized by FIFA as the first of three German AF after the war. In the FIFA Congress on 22 June before the FIFA World Cup 1950 in Brazil, the Swiss Football Association requested that DFB is restored to full membership of FIFA, which was granted September 22 1950 [2] in Brussels. Germany has had international matches at the end of 1950. Teams from the DFB and the Saar competed in the preliminaries of the 1954 WC before the Saarland and the FA was allowed to join Germany and the DFB in 1956.
In the early years of the division of Germany, West Germany claimed the sole authority for all of Germany. Unlike the IOC, which is granted only provisional recognition of East Germans in 1955 and called for taking part in the All-German Olympic team (the team unified Germany), FIFA fully recognized by the East German Football Association in 1952 . Winning the 1954 World Cup was a major victory for the DFB, and the popularity of the sport in Germany.
Because of this success, and because of regional groups that are afraid of losing influence, the old structure in which five amateur regional leagues represented at the top level, remained in place longer than in many other countries, although league Reich was suggested decades ago. In addition, professionalism rejected and the players who have played abroad was seen as "mercenaries" and no ceiling. The conservative attitude changed only after disappointing results in 1962 WC, when officials of the Peco Bauwens 75 years in retirement. According to the proposed Hermann Neuberger, DFB finally introduced a single professional league at the national level, the Fußball-Bundesliga for the season 1963-1964.
In 1974, the DFB has hosted (and won) the World Cup. Germany has hosted the European Championship 1988. After the reunification in 1990, the Deutscher Fußball Verband der DDR (DFV) absorbed by the DFB. In 2006, Germany and the DFB once again hosted the World Cup tournament.
