Walther Bensemann

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Walther Bensemann (January 13, 1873–November 14, 1934) was a German footballer and footballing pioneer.

Bensemann was the son of a Jewish banker. During his time at private school in Montreux he learned about the new sport. When he moved to Karlsruhe in order to complete his school-leavers' exam, he began to spread the sport around Germany.

In September 1889 he founded Karlsruhe FV, the first football club in Southern Germany, as well as overseeing the foundation of the Frankfurter Kickers, predecessors of Eintracht Frankfurt. He helped found the German football alliance in 1900.

Bensemann thought football was a symbol for fairplay and international understanding, so he started to organize international matches. This occurred for the first time in 1893 thanks to a meeting between teams in Lausanne and South Germany. The upshot of these efforts was a series of five international matches between teams from Germany and teams from England which took place between 1899 and 1901.

Bensemann was to emigrate to Switzerland in the 1920s, where he died relatively unnoticed.

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