| Fritz Keller | |
| Image Upright: | 1.1 |
| Office: | 13th President of the DFB |
| Predecessor: | Rainer Koch and Reinhard Rauball (acting) |
| Successor: | Rainer Koch and Peter Peters (acting) |
| Birth Name: | Friedrich Walter Keller |
| Birth Date: | 1957 4, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Freiburg im Breisgau, West Germany |
Friedrich Walter Keller (born 2 April 1957) is a German football administrator and former president SC Freiburg. In 2019, he was elected president German Football Association.[1] [2] He resigned from office in May 2021.[3]
Born in Freiburg, Germany. He has worked is whole life in his restaurant and winery and was elected ″Winemaker of the Year 2019″ by Gault & Millau Wine Guide[4] Together with his family and later joined the German football association where he became chairman in Freiburg SC role known as president from 2010 till 2019.[5]
He was the only candidate for presidential post in August proposed, later poll a vote of 257 out 500 and replaces Reinhard Grindel as the 13th president of the German football body, a seven million members association.[6] [7] Keller was criticised strongly after comparing his vice-president Rainer Koch to the Nazi judge Roland Freisler in April 2021. On 11 May 2021, he announced that he would be stepping down from office.[8]