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Munich (AP) - The lawyer and ADAC general syndicate Christian Reinicke is applying to succeed ADAC President August Markl, according to information from the German Press Agency.
The 72-year-old had already announced that he would not run for president again at the annual general meeting in May.
After the manipulation was discovered, Markl was elected at the top of the 2014 ADAC “Gelber Engel” car award and fundamentally reorganized Europe's largest club.
The Hanoverian lawyer and notary Christian Reinicke has been the ADAC's senior lawyer since 2016 and has closely accompanied and supported Markl's reform course.
So far, he is the only candidate for the top position.
An ADAC spokeswoman confirmed Reinicke's candidacy to dpa, but emphasized: "The president of the ADAC will be elected by the delegates at the general meeting in May."
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The members of the voluntary ADAC presidium are elected every four years by the general assembly.
At an extraordinary general meeting in 2019, the ADAC had rebalanced the power balance between the seven honorary members of the executive committee, the salaried management and the 18 honorary chairmen of the ADAC regional clubs.
Since then, the so-called regional princes can no longer become ADAC president or vice-president.
At the general assembly planned for May 15 in Bremen, three other members of the executive committee will be elected in addition to the president: the sports, technology and tourism presidents.
So far, all seven board members are men.
With more than 21 million members, the ADAC is the largest association in Europe.
The traditional club had split up under Markl.
The association with breakdown assistance and other member services has since been separated from the cover insurance, car loans and publishing businesses, which were bundled in an independent stock corporation.
Their profits go to the association and the non-profit ADAC foundation, which uses it to finance accident research and air rescue, for example.
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