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Peter Küpperfahrenberg went straight to the limit when he informed the club members.

The Essen lawyer, who specializes in labor law and corona advice on all labor law issues, is also the first chairman of Heisinger SV.

As such, he had a message, unmistakable.

So in the very first sentence he wrote to the “dear Heisinger football friends” that many would have probably already noticed that “our most famous (former) player, the former national goalkeeper Jens Lehmann, after his crude remarks about homosexuality in football and after his sweary remarks on the pandemic, he has now also shown his racist attitude by calling Dennis Aogo a quota black. "

Küpperfahrenberg had previously only got involved in a comment on the football fan site "Scottish Furche" because Lehmann's football career including his home club was mentioned there.

“As President of his home club DJK Heisingen, now Heisinger SV, I find that shameful for us too!

At the stadium on Uhlenstrasse.

in any case, did he not learn that… ”he wrote.

Lehmann - and the reminder of the basic evil in football

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Then the lawyer went one step further with his own club: He banned the former pupil Lehmann from the Heisinger SV. “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 the house!” He postulated on the Facebook page of the district league team from the south of Essen. In this context, you have to know that they weren't very good at talking to Lehmann in the club because, in the opinion of the club's management, he has criminally neglected his sporting roots.

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. That has happened far too little 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 other 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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The 51-year-old Lehmann, who came to the juniors of FC Schalke via Schwarz-Weiß Essen in the youth of Heising, had written in the wrong spelling in a WhatsApp message to Aogo: "Is Dennis actually your qotschwarzer?" The sentence was mistaken with a laughing smiley face in front of the question mark.

Sky expert Aogo (34) had published a screenshot of the message on Instagram Story.

Dennis Aogo's Instagram post

Source: instagram @ dennisaogo

The former national goalkeeper subsequently lost his position as a member of the supervisory board of the Berlin Bundesliga club Hertha BSC on Wednesday, and investor Lars Windhorst immediately cut ties.

Aogo described Lehmann's formulation as "disrespectful", but accepted his apology.

Before that, however, both Sky and Sport1 announced that Lehmann would no longer be invited to these two channels - as was often the case in the past. In the evening, the Laureus World Sports Academy reacted and suspended the ex-keeper "for an indefinite period from his role as Laureus ambassador". Laureus "opposes all forms of racism," it said.