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Affair to Fortuna boss Röttgermann: "Thanks and greetings, Thomas"

2019-09-18T18:25:33.074Z


Fortuna Dusseldorf CEO Thomas Röttgermann defends himself against allegations of having deceived club and public. But internal documents affirm the suspicion that Röttgermann is not telling the truth.



Favoritism, whitewashing, false statements. The list of allegations Thomas Röttgermann faced in the past few days is long. Internal documents and mails that are available to the SPIEGEL suggest: Röttgermann, CEO of football league Fortuna Dusseldorf, does not seem to tell the truth.

"Incorrect" is the reporting of SPIEGEL, the club complained in a statement. In the "Rheinische Post" Röttgermann speculated that there are people who want to "deliberately harm Fortuna".

A dubious view of the man who is at the center of criticism. Among other things, this involves the app project "MySport", which Röttgermann privately propelled without knowledge of the Fortuna Supervisory Board. He developed the business idea together with Ingo Schiller, CFO of Hertha BSC and best man of the Dusseldorf CEO, and Felix Welling of VfL Wolfsburg. The latter changes to Fortuna in early 2020 - Röttgermann assured Welling a lavishly endowed contract. The Supervisory Board was also unaware of this.

Mails from June and July are still available

Röttgermann is therefore on 7 September by the Supervisory Board to the cause "MySport" have been ordered. At the meeting, he maintained his position that since taking office in Dusseldorf in April no longer been operational for "MySport". Already at that time an astonishing statement, but there are emails from 2 June and 25 July, both in terms of "MySport", sent from Röttgermann's Fortuna account. Among other things, this involves the coordination of a business plan and appointments with potential business partners.

According to SPIEGEL information, the Supervisory Board then asked Röttgermann to submit all mails that he wrote about his club address in matters of "MySport". Röttgermann allegedly replied that he had deleted all the mails in panic.

Apparently, he succeeded later, but again to gain access to the mails. On September 17, Röttgermann wrote to supervisory board boss Reinhold Ernst: "In the meantime, I've looked at the (also temporarily deleted) emails ... In addition to the already quoted and published emails, there are no emails that I [...] would have sent or received . " Finally, he offers Ernst that he could "make a statement on the facts and a corresponding affidavit".

Mail traffic via joint venture

According to circumstantial situation Röttgermann should think this over well. Finally, there is another mail traffic regarding "MySport", he is the SPIEGEL ago. It starts with a mail from Felix Welling to his "MySport" colleagues Röttgermann and Ingo Schiller. Subject: "Project Scope". Attached is an Excel file, dated August 20th: "Implementation plan app 'MySport'".

Specifically, it is about the intended establishment of a joint venture between "MySport" and ProSiebenSat.1, a potentially multi-million dollar partnership. For this, individual project steps are listed in tabular form and managers are assigned. There are three shortcuts on MySport: FW (Felix Welling), IS (Ingo Schiller) and TR - Thomas Röttgermann. Accordingly, "TR" should above all take care of the personnel planning and give a legal assessment of the joint venture.

Röttgermann knows about this list. This is evidenced by the further mail traffic: On September 2, Welling asked his colleagues if they had "any feedback for me" regarding the outlined implementation plan. Answer Röttgermann: "Please write in the to do list Bein 'MySport' always 'all' in. Thanks and greetings, Thomas". Means: Röttgermann himself was obviously still in early September for the further business of "MySport" in the responsibility.

The mail proves that Röttgermann said in the last few days at least twice the untruth: The statement that there were no more than two mails to the "MySport" complex is just as incorrect as Röttgermann's insurance, no longer operationally active for the project too be. But why does the executive board of a Bundesliga football club publicly present it differently?

Fortuna Dusseldorf, Thomas Röttgermann and Supervisory Board Chairman Reinhold Ernst did not comment on SPIEGEL's request.

Source: spiegel

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