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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 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.
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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.
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.
Jens Lehmann's youth club banned the ex-national player from his racist message to the former professional footballer Dennis Aogo.
“And just in case Jens Lehmann should read this against all expectations: Even if you haven't been seen three times in the last 40 years and you probably don't care at all: You are banned from entering!” Wrote Peter Küpperfahrenberg, chairman of Heisinger SV, on the Facebook page of the Essen district league team.
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Lehmann played for the club in his youth from 1975 to 1978. Küpperfahrenberg also warned in his contribution that “football, which we all love so much, is, in my experience, susceptible to some basic evils of civilization”: “These include, in particular, racism and homophobia. We have to be careful, we have to be vigilant, we must never tolerate this, we have to step in, we have to show courage. Far too little has happened in the past. "
Even during his active time as a youth footballer, far too little was done against racist activities.
He includes himself "expressly".
«There was a lack of courage, courage and decency (for me and others).
Right-wing extremists and extremist attitudes were accepted without contradiction.
I got to know that in my further youth football days at other clubs, ”wrote Küpperfahrenberg.
Heisinger SV is “open to everyone, we want to stand for tolerance and togetherness.
I would be happy if everyone at our facility heeded this and intervened should such incidents occur. "
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