Kurt Landauer headed FC Bayern four times between 1913 and 1951. On 22 March 1933, shortly after the seizure of power, he resigned as president. In April 1933, he lost his job because of his Jewish faith. In 1935 he found work in a laundry.
At the end of 1937, he and his brother sold the family seat at Kaufingerstraße 28 to Woolworth.
On 10 November 1938, he was imprisoned in Dachau for four weeks. In May 1939, he fled to Switzerland; four siblings were murdered by the Nazis.
When the team played in Zurich in 1940, they spotted their former president in the stands and greeted him warmly — despite the Gestapo's express ban on contact. He returned in 1947 and became president again, before being ousted through a cabal in 1951. He died in 1961. The Schickeria ultras organise an annual Kurt Landauer tournament and have founded a foundation that campaigns against racism and exclusion.