Query: FC Bayern Munich was founded by a German photographer.

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FC Bayern Munich <=SEP=> Fußball-Club Bayern München e.V. , commonly known as FC Bayern München ( -LSB- ʔɛf tseː ˈbaɪɐn ˈmʏnçn̩ -RSB- ) , FCB , Bayern Munich , or FC Bayern , is a German sports club based in Munich , Bavaria ( Bayern ) , Germany . It is best known for its professional football team , which plays in the Bundesliga , the top tier of the German football league system , and is the most successful club in German football history , having won a record 27 national titles and 18 national cups .   FC Bayern was founded in 1900 by 11 football players , led by Franz John . Although Bayern won its first national championship in 1932 , the club was not selected for the Bundesliga at its inception in 1963 . The club had its period of greatest success in the middle of the 1970s when , under the captaincy of Franz Beckenbauer , it won the European Cup three times in a row ( 1974 -- 1976 ) . Overall , Bayern has reached ten European Cup/UEFA Champions League finals , most recently winning their fifth title in 2013 as part of a continental treble . Bayern has also won one UEFA Cup , one European Cup Winners ' Cup , one UEFA Super Cup , one FIFA Club World Cup and two Intercontinental Cups , making it one of the most successful European clubs internationally . Since the formation of the Bundesliga , Bayern has been the dominant club in German football with 27 titles and has won 9 of the last 13 titles . They have traditional local rivalries with 1860 Munich and 1 . FC Nürnberg , as well as with Borussia Dortmund since the mid-1990s .   Since the beginning of the 2005 -- 06 season , Bayern has played its home games at the Allianz Arena . Previously the team had played at Munich 's Olympiastadion for 33 years . The team colours are red and white , and the team crest shows the white and blue flag of Bavaria . In terms of revenue , Bayern Munich is the biggest sports club in Germany and the third biggest football club in the world , generating $ 488 million for the 2013 -- 14 season . As of November 2016 , Bayern has over 284,000 members . There are more than 4,000 officially-registered fan clubs with over 314,000 members . The club has other departments for chess , handball , basketball , gymnastics , bowling , table tennis and senior football with more than 1,100 active members .   FC Bayern is ranked second in the current UEFA club coefficient rankings .

Franz John <=SEP=> Franz Adolf Louis John ( born 28 September 1872 in Pritzwalk , died 17 November 1952 in Berlin ) was a German photographer . He was one of the initiators of the founding of FC Bayern Munich and its first president from 1900 to 1903 .   He was born on 28 September 1872 in Pritzwalk ( Brandenburg ) , the son of Friedrich Wilhelm and Ida John . After moving with his parents to Pankow at the fringe of Berlin , he later joined the football club VfB Pankow . There he met Gustav Manning , who afterwards became secretary of the German Football Association . Manning later helped John to integrate the Munich football clubs into the DFB . After his apprenticeship as a photographer in Jena John moved to Munich where he became a member of MTV 1879 Munich .   When on 27 February 1900 the steering committee of MTV prohibited the football division of its club to join the association of southgerman football clubs ( SFV ) , eleven football players left the club under the lead of Franz John . In the restaurant Gisela they founded the Munich Football Club Bayern and elected Franz John for president . John also founded the council of Bavarian referees .   Under his lead the club joined the SFV still in its first year and quickly became a force in the Munich football scene . In 1903 John left FC Bayern and was succeeded as president by the Dutch Willem Hesselink . John also left Munich in 1904 , moving back to Pankow , where he opened a photo laboratory and later became president of his home club VfB Pankow . Despite having few contacts to Munich John was in the 1920s elected as honorary president of the FC Bayern Munich and in 1936 he received the needle of honour in gold from the club .   Grown lonely he died on 17 November 1952 in Pankow ; he had no descendants . Journalist Joachim Rechenberg later traced his lost grave to Fürstenwalde . When in 2000 the FC Bayern celebrated its 100th anniversary , the club recreated the grave and donated a new tombstone to commemorate the merits of Franz John .