Background
MAYER-VORFELDER, Gerhard was born on March 3, 1933.
official politician vice president
MAYER-VORFELDER, Gerhard was born on March 3, 1933.
Mayer-Vorfelder was born in Mannheim, and studied at the university of Freiburg, and Heidelberg University, graduating with a law degree in 1959.
Prior to his Union of European Football Associations career, Mayer-Vorfelder was a politician of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany, and served in the state cabinet of Baden-Württemberg from 1976 to 1998. He was later president of German soccer club VfB Stuttgart, and the German Football Association. A Christian Democratic Union politician, he joined the government of Baden-Württemberg and was appointed permanent secretary at the State Ministry Baden-Württemberg with the rank of a cabinet member in 1976.
From 1980 to 1991, he was Minister of Culture and Sports, and Minister of Finance from 1991 to 1998.
Parallel to his Christian Democratic Union career, Mayer-Vorfelder entered the soccer world. In 1975, he became president of VfB Stuttgart, a position he held until 2000.
In 2000, Mayer-Vorfelder succeeded Egidius Braun as president of the German Football Association. Narrowly surviving a vote of mistrust in 2004, he shared this duty with Theo Zwanziger until 2006.
Mayer-Vorfelder died on August 17, 2015.
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He was also member of the German Bundesrat during that period.