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Jan 28, 2018 · Had he been Catholic, he would have been a model citizen. But in Munich, birthplace of the Nazi Party, Bayern was known as a Jewish club.
Oct 5, 2014 · Bayern’s Jewish roots are deep. When the club was formed in a bohemian quarter of Munich more than a century ago, two of the 17 people who signed the founding charter were Jewish.
- kevin.baxter@latimes.com
- Staff Writer
FC Bayern Munich, founded in the bohemian Munich suburb of Schwabing, had a Jewish leadership before the Nazis rise to power and won their first German championship in 1932 under the direction of a Jewish president and coach.
Aug 21, 2023 · Back when Bayern Munich clinched their first-ever Bundesliga title by defeating Eintracht Frankfurt in the 1932 final, they had a Jewish president by the name of Kurt Landauer.
Jul 16, 2019 · Known as the “Jews Club” because some of its founders, its president, its coach and a disproportionate number of its members were Jewish, the team’s history is being featured in an exhibition...
The club, which was one of many social anchors in the city for Jewish people in Munich before and after the Nazi era, was not without guilt during the dictatorship, from which responsibility arises today.
Due to the club’s Jewish background, Bayern were discriminated against in a myriad of ways. Club membership, the number of teams and the crowds at games all fell dramatically. Twelve years under the fascist dictatorship saw the club lose its position of prominence, eventually falling to 81st place in the German Reich.
