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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1962-03-15 ) 15 March 1962 (age 64) , Kaiserslautern , West Germany
- Occupation
- Football referee
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Markus
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Kaiserslautern
- Occupation
- dentist
- Position held
- FIFA referee
- Languages spoken
- German
- Sport
- association football
- Country for sport
- Germany
- Official website
- www.merk-es-dir.de
- Image
- Markus Merk (cropped).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1962-03-15
- Commons category
- Markus Merk
- start of work period
- 1988-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Markus Merk (born 15 March 1962) is a former top-level German football referee. He is a six-time winner of the German Referee of the Year Award and the record holder in games refereed in the Bundesliga. In 2005, Merk was awarded the German Bundesverdienstkreuz (Federal Cross of Merit) in recognition of his service to football and his charity work in India. He ended his career by refereeing the match between Bayern Munich and Hertha BSC Berlin on the last day of the 2007–08 Bundesliga season on 17 May 2008.
He was ranked the best referee by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics in 2004, 2005 and 2008.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Markus Merk” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.