The proposals, which entail comparing visitors' biometric data to a database of known football rioters, have been denounced as Orwellian by one national fan association.
But the interior minister of the former east German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lorenz Caffier, said current measures to prevent hooligans from slipping past security in stadiums, such as match bans, were not working.
"Along with the help of personalised entrance tickets and face scanners, notorious rioters can be effectively kept out of the stadiums," said Caffier in a statement.
"We have to go beyond the current discussions," he said.
"This idea is a disgrace to democracy and is reminiscent of Orwell's 1984," said Philipp Markhardt, spokesman for the national Pro-Fans association.
"The attempt to combat a problem with surveillance rather than attacking the root of the issue is out of touch with reality and, above all, is a drastic invasion of the civil liberties of individual fans," he said.
