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Friedrich Curtius
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General Secretary Friedrich Curtius will leave the German Football Association.
The association announced that they had mutually agreed to end the cooperation.
Curtius had previously been withdrawn from the presidents of the state and regional associations of the DFB.
Curtius thus implemented his announcement that after the resignation of President Fritz Keller, he would also pave the way for a new beginning.
The deputy general secretary Heike Ullrich will take over his duties on a temporary basis.
The DFB will be led on an interim basis by the first two Vice-Presidents Rainer Koch (amateurs) and Peter Peters (professionals) until the Bundestag is brought forward at the beginning of next year.
The DFB Presidium thanked Curtius in the press release "for the services he has provided to the DFB and German football in the past."
Curtius was most recently part of the months-long power struggle within the top of the DFB.
The presidents of the state and regional associations, like Keller, had withdrawn their trust at a conference at the beginning of May.
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