Hannover 96: Martin Kind is allowed to continue as managing director for the time being

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The dispute at the second division club Hannover 96 goes into the next round: Thanks to a decision by the Hanover Regional Court, Martin Kind can continue to work as managing director until the date of a hearing. An injunction regulates that Kind may continue ordinary and urgent business of Management GmbH until the hearing on August 16, as the district court confirmed on Monday to a “dpa” request. The club’s professional football KGaA had previously announced this.

The majority shareholder, Kind, was surprisingly dismissed as managing director of Hannover 96 Management GmbH last week. Kind does not consider the dismissal to be lawful and challenges it legally. Since then, the relationship between the parent club on the one hand and Kind’s professional football division on the other has become increasingly strained.

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At 96 there is a complicated structure of multiple companies. Kind is the majority shareholder of Hannover 96 Sales&Service GmbH&Co. KG, which owns 100 percent of professional football KGaA. However, since the 50+1 rule in Germany stipulates that the parent association must always have the majority of votes in an outsourced corporation, the managing directors of the KGaA are appointed by Hannover 96 Management GmbH. It is 100 percent owned by the parent club.

Kind and Hannover 96 professional department deny allegations of the parent club

Following allegations of breach of contract against Kind, the club’s professional football arm has denied the parent club’s allegations. “Further legal processing of the assertions made and at the same time discrediting Mr. Martin Kind will take place at a legal level, with all the associated consequences, in order to avert further damage and dangers from Hannover 96,” said the professional football KGaA.

The parent club had accused the club’s capital side of repeatedly violating the so-called Hanover 96 Treaty and the sponsorship agreements that had been concluded at the same time. A fixed donation was not paid at all and further donations “were not paid at the agreed time”. The allegations made are entirely inaccurate and must therefore be rejected, the Kinds website said. The board of directors of the parent association “violated the clear statutes of Management GmbH and the ‘Hannover 96 contract’ concluded with Hannover 96 GmbH & Co. KGaA,” it said.

“I don’t know the reason,” Kind said on Friday in an interview with “new press‘ in response to his dismissal. He said he was not given the reason for the decision. “I go my way, it is justified and responsible. The whole thing is completely superfluous,” he also emphasized. According to the “Picture” After unfortunate decisions made by Kind in the past, the eV bosses are said to have demanded more say in the appointments to the sporting leadership, which Kind has always rejected. Sebastian Kramer, eV chairman, did not want to comment on the background, but said about a possible successor arrangement: “We are in talks.” With Andreas Rettig, an experienced person in Hanover is already being discussed. First of all, the current supervisory board and former 96 captain Carsten Linke could take over on an interim basis.

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