Kurt Landauer - Der Präsident des FC Bayern

Under his presidency, FC Bayern won its first German championship in 1932. In 1933, he was forced to resign as a Jew and was interned in Dachau in 1939; later, he managed to flee to Switzerland. Many of his siblings perished in the Holocaust. However, after the war, he returned to Munich, as well as to the club—because football is his life. Little has been known about Kurt Landauer's private life until now. He had been in a relationship with Maria Baumann, the family's housekeeper, since 1927. This affair remained a secret for a long time. Despite the looming threat of denunciation following the so-called Nuremberg Race Laws, she, as a non-Jew, maintained the romantic relationship, and even during Landauer's emigration, their contact never ceased. From Switzerland, he wrote his beloved a long letter, his "life report," in which he accounts for their relationship and asks her to marry him. This "life report" and other letters from the couple until 1948, when they lived together again in Munich, along with insightful comments from the editors and many private photos and documents, paint a striking picture of a German-Jewish relationship into the post-war period.