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Entrepreneur Martin Kind, dismissed as managing director of Hannover 96
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Martin Kind doesn't give up easily.
On Wednesday evening, the long-standing club boss from Hannover 96 was dismissed as managing director of the professional football company “with immediate effect for important reasons”.
Now Hannover 96 GmbH&Co.
KGaA that the 78-year-old wants his dismissal to be legally examined.
According to the "Neue Presse", the board of directors of the parent club Hannover 96 eV will soon present an interim managing director and then a permanent solution for the professional division, which has been spun off into a corporation.
As a short-term solution, Andreas Rettig is under discussion, former DFL managing director and manager at SC Freiburg and 1. FC Köln, among others.
Rettig confirms contact, but no successor plan
Rettig confirmed contacts with Hannover 96 in the past two weeks on Thursday - although he spoke to the child himself.
“I have a lot of respect for Martin Kind.
For me, Hannover 96 is very closely linked to Martin Kind and his shareholders," said the 59-year-old of the German Press Agency.
"But neither Martin Kind nor the club offered me a succession plan."
At Hannover 96 there is a complicated structure of several companies.
Kind is the majority shareholder of Hannover 96 Sales&Service GmbH&Co.
KG, which owns 100 percent of professional football KGaA.
However, since the 50+1 rule in Germany stipulates that the parent association must always have the majority of votes in an outsourced corporation, the managing directors of the KGaA are appointed by Hannover 96 Management GmbH.
And it belongs 100 percent to the parent club.
Possible recall error
Kind's dismissal was a decision of the eV board on Wednesday evening.
However, the hearing aid entrepreneur points out that only the Supervisory Board of Management GmbH can appoint and dismiss a managing director.
This body consists of two representatives each from the capital and association side, but according to the KGaA, was not informed about Kind's dismissal.
see/dpa
