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Berlin (dpa) - Investor Lars Windhorst wants to take his time in naming a successor to Jens Lehmann for the Hertha BSC supervisory board.
Possible candidates would be selected in peace, it said on Thursday from Windhorst's Tennor Group.
The financier of the Berlin Bundesliga club ended its collaboration with the former national goalkeeper as a consultant to his investment company after exactly one year.
The reason was Lehmann's racist remarks about ex-professional Dennis Aogo, whom he had described as the “quota black” of the TV broadcaster Sky.
This automatically ended Lehmann's mandate for Windhorst on the Hertha supervisory board.
The former goalkeeper apologized to Aogo on Wednesday for his Whatsapp statement.
The entrepreneur Windhorst holds 66.6 percent of the shares in Hertha BSC GmbH & Co. KgaA through his investment of 374 million euros and can name four of the nine members of the supervisory board.
The Windhorst supervisory board also includes media entrepreneur Georg Kofler, lawyer Thomas Werlen and Tarek Malek from the Tennor Group.
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Before Lehmann, Windhorst had appointed ex-national trainer Jürgen Klinsmann to the supervisory board, whose engagement ended abruptly in February 2020 after his departure as Hertha coach.
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