Arminia Bielefeld
A political star appears in the standing room
Updated on February 25, 2025 – 11:49 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
A former politician star is also in the fan curve in the sensation of Arminia Bielefeld. He celebrates the victory of the outsider frenetically.
The sensational 2-1 success of Arminia Bielefeld in the DFB Cup against the first division club Werder Bremen celebrated the fans in the Arminia stadium. Among them was also a politician that had become quiet in the past few months. Kevin Kühnert stood in the middle of the curve. The former Secretary General of the SPD stood in the south stands with Arminia fan scarf, very close to the edge of the field, as the TV pictures showed.
Kühnert is considered a glowing supporter of the third division club. He lost his heart to the Arminia when he was a football groundhopper (Note d. Red.: Fans who make it their task to visit all stadiums at least once) once at the Bielefeld “Alm” station. In the meantime, the stadium is officially called Schüco-Arena, but Kühnert is still coming by.
“I’m not going to the stadium to sit in a box. I have a standing space map in the curve. (…) At the stadium I guess that it is not interested in what else people do in their lives. In the life Curve we all stand next to each other and hung our scarf and put on the jersey, “he said in an interview with” The West “.
The visit of the Berliner in Bielefeld on Wednesday evening was worth it. Due to the sensation success of the first division club Werder Bremen, Kühnert’s club moved back into a DFB Cup semi-final for the first time in ten years. The former federal politician passionately cheered the victory of his team. Read the game report here.
Kühnert had recently remained away from federal politics. Around four months ago he resigned and withdrawn from politics, for health reasons, as he announced in a statement at the time. With this, the German political landscape lost one of its greatest talents until further notice. “I need the energy that is necessary for my office and an election campaign for the foreseeable future to get well again,” wrote the 35-year-old at the time.
Kühnert also no longer competed for the SPD in the early Bundestag election. He did not make an election campaign for the party and will also lose his mandate as a MP. Shortly before the end of the legislative period, he once again stepped to the lectern in the Bundestag and read the Levites to the colleagues present. “We protect what we love, we protect our democracy,” he appealed to MPs in mid -February. “I will do this from the outside in the future. Please do it from here.”
In his speech, he also alluded to the votes on the migration policy initiated by Friedrich Merz a few weeks earlier, in which AfD had coordinated with the Union.
“Many of them probably still have the inner conviction, right -wing radicals should be left on the right,” he said. “I think that – but they give up the struggle and I criticize that.” Kühnert warned that politics had to have the ear from the people, but not speak to him, but also put something. Chancellor such as Konrad Adenauer, Willy Brandt and Helmut Kohl would have struggled to convince.