Prominent SPD politician gets important post at FC Bayern - "Excellent network in Germany"
Created: 03/21/2022, 16:24
By: Patrick Mayer
SPD boss: Lars Klingbeil (right), here with Interior Minister Nancy Faeser and Chancellor Olaf Scholz (both SPD).
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SPD chairman Lars Klingbeil becomes a functionary at FC Bayern Munich.
The social democrat has long had a close connection to the German Bundesliga record champions.
Munich - Prominent reinforcement for FC Bayern Munich: Lars Klingbeil, chairman of the SPD, becomes the German Bundesliga record champion * administrative advisory board.
The club announced this Monday (March 21).
Accordingly, the Executive Committee appointed the 44-year-old from Lower Saxony to the committee at its last meeting.
FC Bayern Munich: Lars Klingbeil becomes an advisory board member in the club
"We are very pleased to have gained a personality in Lars Klingbeil who is well connected socially, politically and economically throughout Germany," said FCB President Herbert Hainer in a club statement: "We are sure that he will support our administrative advisory board with his young, refreshing point of view and new perspectives.
In addition, he is an absolute football connoisseur and has been a fan of FC Bayern since he was a child - red is not only his political color."
The board of directors of FC Bayern* is led by the former Bavarian Prime Minister and CSU politician Edmund Stoiber.
The Administrative Advisory Board has an advisory function and is a body that monitors the work of the Executive Committee.
Klingbeil has been a member of Munich since 2012 and is considered a football fan of the Bundesliga giants*.
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"I would like to thank Herbert Hainer and the executive committee of FC Bayern Munich eV* for the appointment to my club's administrative advisory board.
FC Bayern* not only sets sporting standards that are recognized worldwide.
He's a figurehead for our country," Klingbeil is quoted as saying in a press release from the Champions League participant: "The club has proven over the past few decades that it's able to constantly question itself, to take advice and thus successfully remain.
I would now like to accompany this path even more closely with my perspective on setting the course for the future of the club.”
FC Bayern Munich: Dorothee Bär (CSU) and Munich's mayor are also on the administrative advisory board
In addition to Stoiber and Klingbeil, the politician Dorothee Bär (CSU) and Munich's mayor Dieter Reiter (SPD) are also part of the administrative advisory board, which is integrated into the association and not into the AG.
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