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Berlin (dpa) - Hertha investor Lars Windhorst immediately terminated the consultancy contract with the ex-national player after an irritating WhatsApp message from Jens Lehmann.
"Jens Lehmann is no longer a consultant," said Windhorst spokesman Andreas Fritzenkötter of the dpa news agency.
This also ends Lehmann's mandate on the Hertha supervisory board.
The Windhorst Tennor Group brought Lehmann to the supervisory board of Hertha BSC GmbH & Co. KGaA a year ago as the successor to Jürgen Klinsmann.
The former national goalkeeper Lehmann had previously apologized for a WhatsApp message from former professional Dennis Aogo.
But that didn't change the Hertha investor's decision.
"In a private message from my cell phone to Dennis Aogo, an impression was created for which I apologized in conversation with Dennis," Lehmann wrote on Wednesday morning on Twitter.
The 51-year-old added: "As a former national player, he is very knowledgeable and has a great presence and brings a quota to Sky."
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Aogo had previously posted a screenshot of a WhatsApp history on Instagram Story.
He had blacked out all the messages that, according to the screenshot, came from Jens Lehmann's cell phone, except for one.
The 34-year-old Aogo had the question outlined in red: "Is Dennis actually your black one?"
The sentence was mistaken with a laughing smiley in front of the question mark.
Aogo, who works as an expert for the broadcaster Sky, wrote: «WOW are you serious?
@jenslehmannofficial The message was probably not meant for me !!! »
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