His profession was often listed as Kaufmann ("merchant"), he was head of the advertising department of the major Munich daily newspaper Münchner Neueste Nachrichten, considered a precursor to Süddeutsche Zeitung, which commenced publication after World War II.
His claim to fame is his four tenures as the president of the football club FC Bayern Munich between 1913 and 1951.
[1] He was the first to take the club to national championship honours, when Bayern defeated Eintracht Frankfurt in the final of 1932.
Because of his military service in World War I, he was allowed to leave Dachau after 33 days under arrest.
In autumn 2014 the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation (Bayerischer Rundfunk) initiated a transmedia project on the life of Kurt Landauer.