Ian Rawcliffe

Ian Rawcliffe is the President of the German Rugby Federation, having been elected to this position on 6 July 2013. He succeeded Ralph Götz in this role but had previously held this position from 1996 to 2004. Rawcliffe was born in Burnley, England, and came to Germany with the British Army in the 1970s. Since 1975 he lives in Rödermark, near Frankfurt and is a member of BSC Offenbach, a club he also coached in the 1980s. Rawcliffe first held the position of President of the German Rugby Federation from 1996 to 2004, when he stepped down for personal reasons and was succeeded by Bernd Leifheit.