2006 FIFA World Cup Organizing Committee
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The 2006 FIFA World Cup Organizing Committee (German: Organisationkomitee, OK) organized the World Cup in Germany. President of OK was Franz Beckenbauer,[1] who also acted as the official representative and chairman of the German World Cup bid.
First Vice President and Vice President of the World Cup Committee was Horst R. Schmidt, the general secretary of the German Football Association (German: Deutscher Fußball-Bund, DFB). The responsibility of the Executive Vice President of the OK varied and included play and competitive technical matters, stadiums, ticket sales, transportation, safety, regulatory affairs, human resources, finances, planning and control, medical care, administration and secretariat.
Wolfgang Niersbach[2] was the executive vice president and press chief officer of the World Cup committee. Niersbach was responsible for marketing, press and public relations, accreditation, information technology, media and telecommunications, events and the crew's quarters.
Vice-President of the OK was Fedor Radmann until 2003 and then Theo Zwanziger. His responsibilities included the general organization, legal, finances and also personnel decisions leading to the World Cup.
The organizing committee was controlled by the Supervisory Board and the Board of Trustees. On the Supervisory Board were well-known personalities such as Federal Minister of the Interior Wolfgang Schäuble, the former Federal Minister of the Interior Otto Schily, president of the German Football Association Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder, Thomas Bach from the International Olympic Committee, Werner Hackmann president of the Deutsche Fußball Liga, and former footballer Günter Netzer as sports rights marketer.
- Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder, DFB President, OK Chairman
- Wolfgang Schäuble, Federal Minister of the Interior, OK Vice-Chairman
- Otto Schily, former federal Minister of the Interior
- Thomas Bach, IOC
- Günter Netzer, Infront Sports & Media AG
- Werner Hackmann, president of the Deutsche Fußball Liga (DFL)
- Wilfried Straub, Managing Chairman DFL
- Engelbert Nelle, 1st Vice President (Amateurs), DFB
- Heinrich Schmidhuber, DFB treasurer
- Manfred Maus, Chairman OBI AG
Board of trustees
- Manfred von Richthofen, former President of the German Sports Federation
- Egidius Braun, DFB honorary president
- Klaus Steinbach, President of the Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund
- Hans Ludwig Grüschow, President of the German Sports Aid
- Herbert Hainer, CEO of Adidas-Salomon AG
- Erich Schumann, CEO Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
- Fritz Pleitgen, director of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk
- Michel Platini, member of the FIFA Executive Committee, member of the Organizing Committee for the FIFA World Cup Germany 2006
- Roman Herzog, former President of Germany
- Lennart Johansson, President of UEFA, member of the FIFA Executive Committee, chairman of the Organizing Committee for the FIFA World Cup Germany 2006
- Karin Wolff, Responsible for Conference of Ministers of Education
- Peter Rauen, Chairman of the Sports Committee of the German Bundestag
- Thomas Röwekamp, Senator for the Interior and Sport, chairman of the Sports Ministers Conference of State 2005-2006
- Christina Weiss, former Minister of State and Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media