Rudolf Gramlich

Rudolf "Rudi" Gramlich (6 June 1908 – 14 March 1988) was a German football player and chairman.

Rudolf Gramlich
Personal information
Full name Rudolf Gramlich
Date of birth (1908-06-06)6 June 1908
Place of birth Offenbach am Main, Germany
Date of death 14 March 1988(1988-03-14) (aged 79)
Place of death Frankfurt am Main, West Germany
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
1923–1926 Borussia Frankfurt
1926–1929 Sportfreunde Freiberg/Sachsen
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1929–1939 Eintracht Frankfurt 200 (16)
1942–1943 SS Totenkopfstandarte Krakau
1943–1944 Eintracht Frankfurt
National team
1931–1936 Germany 22 (0)
Teams managed
1951–1952 SV Darmstadt 98
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

As an active player he performed for Eintracht Frankfurt. Gramlich made 22 international appearances for Germany between 1931 and 1936,[1] achieving third place at the 1934 World Cup in Italy. He was the captain of the German team at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.

From 1939 to 1942 was the chairman of Eintracht Frankfurt. In 1942 he was stationed as an SS officer in occupied Krakow, where he also headed the football section of the SS Death's Heads Unit. In 1945 he was arrested and held by the American forces in Frankfurt in 1947, because he was suspected of having been involved in war crimes. Finally, the case against him was closed because former SS comrades had exonerated him.[2]

Between 1955 and 1970 he was again the chairman of Eintracht Frankfurt. In 1959 Eintracht won its only German championship and reached the European Cup final in the following year.

In 2020, he was stripped of the title of honorary president of Eintracht Frankfurt when it was discovered he had actively participated in the Nazi Party and the SS. [3]

References
  1. Arnhold, Matthias (25 August 2016). "Rudolf 'Rudi' Gramlich - International Appearances". RSSSF. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
  2. Thomas Urban, “Football ‘Only for Germans’, in the Underground and in Auschwitz: Championships in Occupied Poland“, in European Football During the Second World War. Ed. M. Herzog/F. Brändle. Oxford 2018, pp. 371, 376.
  3. "Rudolf Gramlich: Frankfurt find former Germany captain was a Nazi". The Independent. Retrieved 27 January 2020.

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