German Football Association (DFB) president Fritz Keller confronted calls to resign on Sunday after he sparked outrage by evaluating his deputy to a Nazi choose.
Presidents of the DFB’s regional associations, which run Germany’s semi-professional and novice leagues, introduced after weekend disaster talks that Keller had misplaced a vote of confidence and has been “requested to step down from his place”.
DFB general secretary Friedrich Curtius was likewise asked to vacate his role after losing a confidence vote.
The turmoil comes after Keller in a recent meeting likened DFB vice-president Rainer Koch to Roland Freisler, the infamous head of the Nazi party’s court in the 1940s.
Freisler was also a participant at 1942’s Wannsee Conference, where it was decided that 11 million Jews should be sent to death camps.
The remark triggered a storm of criticism and Keller has since apologised to Koch, acknowledging that his words were “totally inappropriate, notably towards the victims of Nazism”.
Keller dominated out stepping down over the incident nonetheless.
Koch has not stated that he has accepted the apology.
In a press release, the leaders of the DFB’s 5 regional and 21 state associations known as Keller’s Nazi reference “utterly unacceptable” and said they condemned it “in the strongest possible terms”.
“The president’s feedback are incompatible with the ideas and values of the associations,” they added.
According to the statement, Keller and Curtius have asked for time to consider the resignation requests.
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