According to media reports, football idol Uwe Seeler was buried in his hometown of Hamburg.
As the “Hamburger Abendblatt” and the “Bild” reported, the long-time Hamburger SV professional, who died on July 21 at the age of 85, was buried at noon in the immediate family circle at the Ohlsdorf cemetery.
Uwe Seeler’s father Erwin and his mother Anny as well as his brother Dieter, who died early, and his wife Helga are also buried in the family grave there.
The official funeral service for Uwe Seeler next Wednesday (2 p.m. / ARD and N3 live) will take place in the 57,000-seat Hamburg Volksparkstadion, as Seeler is said to have wished.
Among the around a thousand invited guests at the funeral service are, among others, Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Peter Tschentscher (both SPD), Scholz’s successor as the first mayor of the Hanseatic city.