During the general meeting of the second division soccer team FC Schalke 04 on Saturday, November 16th, new details of the newly founded cooperative Auf Schalke eG were presented. Günter Althaus is also represented on the supervisory board of the new body. Althaus was president of the cooperative umbrella organization DGRV from 2017 to 2019 and is chairman of the board of the cooperatively organized health food store concept. Althaus says about the founding of the FC Schalke 04 cooperative on Linkedin: “The idea of allowing the club members to participate in the club’s existing assets and its future development via a cooperative, without the control of the influence of outside investors, is groundbreaking.” According to the Hamburg Bundesliga club FC St. Pauli, Schalke is the second German professional football club to found a cooperative. Regarding his role at Linkedin, Althaus says: “I was happy to support this project and, as an ‘old cooperative uncle’, I will support it as best as I can on the supervisory board.”
Meanwhile, Stepan Timoshin, founder of the sneaker reseller Vaditim, applied for the office of president at the general meeting of second division club Hertha BSC on Sunday, November 17th. He justified his appointment in a Linkedin post by saying that he wanted to combat the mismanagement in the club: “Our Hertha cannot afford to ‘business as usual’! Cuddling won’t get us into the Bundesliga or out of the financial stranglehold. It is important to work out who is responsible for this and to open the black box of non-transparent decisions of the last few years.” His speech at the general meeting, where he lit a 50 euro note to draw attention to the fact, attracted media attention. how the club burns money. According to media reports, in the plenary session he received criticism for burning money that others could have used. He was clearly defeated by 15 votes and in fourth place to the previous acting president Fabian Drescher, who was elected president with 2,985 votes.
