The latter sold his company in the early 1880s and moved to Berlin, but like the whole family retained the anglicized name "Manning".

The sons Fred and Gustav played soccer in various Berlin clubs, including from 1893 for VfB Pankow, which was founded this year.

After his school days, Gustav Manning studied medicine, initially for three semesters at Humboldt University in Berlin, then in southwest Germany in Freiburg im Breisgau .

Despite his British passport, he became the first secretary of the DFB and was responsible for drafting the association's statutes based on the English model.

Gustav Manning, who was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 1950,[2] died shortly before his 80th birthday.