A few days before the hearing at the district court over the dismissal of Martin Kind as managing director at Hannover 96, the parent club presented further reasons.
In the media, majority shareholder Kind made it clear “that he does not intend to be more cooperative in the future and to adhere to common rules,” the eV informed its members in a letter reported by the “Neue Presse”.
The dismissal “for important reasons” had become necessary, “because otherwise the club would face a serious disadvantage”. Kind had “repeatedly and seriously violated instructions and contractual agreements,” it said. The capital side of the association denies this.
According to the newspaper, the board made it clear in the letter that it was not about power, but about Hannover 96. The eV board was also not fundamentally against children, and he had tried to implement a goal-oriented approach between all 96 participants. “Unfortunately, that failed almost completely,” said the parent club.
Thanks to a decision by the district court, Kind is allowed to continue working as managing director until the date of an oral hearing on August 16th. Before that, he had surprisingly been dismissed as managing director of Hannover 96 Management GmbH. The 78-year-old does not consider the dismissal to be lawful and is challenging it legally.
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 the 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.