BERLIN (dpa-AFX) – The broadcaster chief controller Wolf-Dieter Wolf, who came under criticism in the RBB affair, has announced his resignation from the board of directors of the public broadcaster. According to dpa information from Tuesday, a corresponding letter was sent to the broadcasting council head. Board member Martin Rennert also spoke of Wolf’s resignation on the RBB program “Abendschau”.
It had previously become known that Wolf had also announced his resignation as head of the supervisory board at the broadcaster’s advertising subsidiary RBB Media. This was announced by a spokesman for the public broadcaster at the request of the German Press Agency.
In addition, the Senate Department for Economics had announced that Wolf was also resigning from his position on the supervisory board at Messe Berlin and thus from his position as chairman of the supervisory board with immediate effect “in order to avoid possible damage to Messe Berlin GmbH and also not to burden the ongoing investigations”. .
The online medium “Business Insider” got the RBB affair rolling. In summary, the question arises as to whether Wolf and the now resigned ARD boss and RBB director Patricia Schlesinger could have dealt too laxly with possible conflicts of interest, for example when awarding consultancy contracts for a station construction project.
Her husband also received orders from Messe Berlin. Schlesinger and Wolf rejected the allegations. Investigations are currently underway in both houses, results are not yet available. The public prosecutor is also investigating ex officio against Schlesinger, her husband and Wolf./rin/DP/he