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Walther Bensemann (13 January 1873 – 12 November 1934) was a German pioneer of football and founder of the country's major sports publication, Kicker. Bensemann was born in Berlin, Brandenburg, as the son of a Jewish banker. During his time at private school in Montreux, Switzerland, he learned about the new sport of football. When he moved to Karlsruhe in order to complete his school-leavers' exam, he began to spread the sport around the German Empire. In 1920, Bensemann founded Kicker, which evolved soon into Germany's leading football magazine, a status which it retains until today.

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  • Walther Bensemann (* 13. Januar 1873 in Berlin; † 12. November 1934 in Montreux, Schweiz) war einer der wichtigsten Pioniere des Fußballs in Deutschland. Er war ab 1889 Mitbegründer von mehreren Fußballvereinen im Süden des Deutschen Kaiserreichs, organisierte im Dezember 1898 die ersten internationalen Begegnungen deutscher Auswahlmannschaften, die sogenannten „Ur-Länderspiele“, war im Jahr 1900 als Vertreter mehrerer Klubs an der Gründung des Deutschen Fußball-Bunds (DFB) beteiligt und gründete 1920 das erste deutsche Fußballmagazin Kicker . Bensemann, von jüdischer Abstammung, emigrierte nach Errichtung der Nazidiktatur in Deutschland Ende März 1933 in die Schweiz. Dort starb er im Jahr darauf. Bensemann war als Schüler an einer englischen Privatschule in der Schweiz mit der auf dem europäischen Festland noch vergleichsweise unbekannten und im Deutschen Reich als „englische Modetorheit“ und „Fußlümmelei“ verpönten und verspotteten Sportart in Kontakt gekommen und begann im letzten Jahrzehnt des 19. Jahrhunderts eine Missionsarbeit, die den Fußball als eine pazifistische Idee und als Mittel zur Völkerverständigung sah. (de)
  • Walther Bensemann (13 January 1873 – 12 November 1934) was a German pioneer of football and founder of the country's major sports publication, Kicker. Bensemann was born in Berlin, Brandenburg, as the son of a Jewish banker. During his time at private school in Montreux, Switzerland, he learned about the new sport of football. When he moved to Karlsruhe in order to complete his school-leavers' exam, he began to spread the sport around the German Empire. There, in September 1889, he founded the International Football Club, the first football club in southern Germany, and two years later he was instrumental in the founding of Karlsruher FV, one of the first champion clubs in Germany. He was also involved in the creation of Frankfurter Kickers, who would later become Eintracht Frankfurt. In 1900 he belonged to the founding-fathers of the German Football Association. Bensemann thought of football as a means of international understanding, so he started to organize international matches such as the ones between selections of Lausanne and southern Germany in 1893. Consequently, this also led to the five historical matches between selections from Germany and England between 1899 and 1901, which albeit not having any official status, are considered the historically first international matches of any German national side. In 1920, Bensemann founded Kicker, which evolved soon into Germany's leading football magazine, a status which it retains until today. In 1933, the Nazi Machtergreifung in Germany compelled Benseman to move to Montreux where he died soon, relatively unnoticed and without means. (en)
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  • Walther Bensemann (* 13. Januar 1873 in Berlin; † 12. November 1934 in Montreux, Schweiz) war einer der wichtigsten Pioniere des Fußballs in Deutschland. Er war ab 1889 Mitbegründer von mehreren Fußballvereinen im Süden des Deutschen Kaiserreichs, organisierte im Dezember 1898 die ersten internationalen Begegnungen deutscher Auswahlmannschaften, die sogenannten „Ur-Länderspiele“, war im Jahr 1900 als Vertreter mehrerer Klubs an der Gründung des Deutschen Fußball-Bunds (DFB) beteiligt und gründete 1920 das erste deutsche Fußballmagazin Kicker . Bensemann, von jüdischer Abstammung, emigrierte nach Errichtung der Nazidiktatur in Deutschland Ende März 1933 in die Schweiz. Dort starb er im Jahr darauf. (de)
  • Walther Bensemann (13 January 1873 – 12 November 1934) was a German pioneer of football and founder of the country's major sports publication, Kicker. Bensemann was born in Berlin, Brandenburg, as the son of a Jewish banker. During his time at private school in Montreux, Switzerland, he learned about the new sport of football. When he moved to Karlsruhe in order to complete his school-leavers' exam, he began to spread the sport around the German Empire. In 1920, Bensemann founded Kicker, which evolved soon into Germany's leading football magazine, a status which it retains until today. (en)
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