Reinhard Rauball (born 25 December 1946) is a German politician, member of the SPD, a trained lawyer, and football official.
In the 1990s and 2000s he made a name for himself in particular as a sports lawyer, where he represented Katrin Krabbe, Nicole Uphoff and Graciano Rocchigiani as well as many dismissed managers from Bundesliga football clubs.
[2] After just one week following his appointment to the cabinet, he was forced to resign because he had become a member of the supervisory board of US-based Eurogas in 1994 without applying for approval as required by German law.
He is regarded as the saviour of BVB because he saved the team from bankruptcy in each of his terms as president, most recently in 2005 and 2006 in co-operation with the two managers Hans-Joachim Watzke and Thomas Treß.
Rauball succeeded the deceased Werner Hackmann as president of the German Football League in August 2007.