February 2025 BAYERN FAMILY recounted . He soon became a member of the club , where he met some of his later comrades-in-arms and co-signatories of FC Bayern ‘ s founding charter . Were Wilhelm Hirsch , August Evers and the man who may be called Erich Gottschalk also among the MTV members of that time ? To find out , Werner Klotz joins the ‘ 51 ’ reporter in MTV ‘ s small archive room and opens boxes full of old documents . The grey-haired , smiling 81-year-old Werner Klotz is a volunteer archivist for the club , which has its headquarters in a large old building near Goetheplatz . Part of the complex was destroyed during the war – and later rebuilt with gyms , a fencing centre and a boxing cellar . However , the historical membership lists
” Many membership lists and documents were lost due to the passing of time and the two wars ”
Dr Michael Stephan , former city archivist
Difficult search : The membership lists of MTV , from which FCB split off , were lost during the war .
have been irretrievably lost . “ So we can only look for the gentlemen in old anniversary publications or club announcements ,“ says Klotz , “ or in old pub newspapers ”, satirical publications that clubs used to produce for special occasions . So we get started , leafing through yellowed paper , searching through the rows of text for the names Hirsch , Evers , Gottschalk – without success . But what we do find is an article in an MTV pub newspaper , which most likely appeared shortly after FC Bayern was founded . It pokes fun at the fact that many players of the young FC Bayern were not Bavarians at all . The headline of the article : “ Die ’ Bayern ’“ ( The ’ Bavarians ’). “ Zuagroaste “ ( new residents ) were not uncommon in Munich at the end of the 19th century . Only around a third of the 500,000 or so people living in the city in 1900 were born there . Anyone living or moving into the city at that time was recorded in so-called “ police registration forms “. So , shouldn ‘ t the three gentlemen Hirsch , Evers and “ Gottschalk “ also be on the forms from back then ?
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