Martin Kind has apparently surprisingly been dismissed as managing director of the professional football company of the second division football team Hannover 96.
This emerges from a short press release sent out by the board of directors of the parent association Hannover 96 eV on Wednesday evening. The statement states that the decision was made for “important reasons”: “The committees will decide promptly on the new appointment of the management.”
According to information from the “Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung”, Kind was ordered to the club center on Wednesday and acknowledged his dismissal “without comment”. Accordingly, the club has already found a successor for Kind. For Kind, majority shareholder of the professional football operation, only the comparatively unimportant managing director posts for Arena GmbH and Sales&Service should remain.
Kind had shaped an era in the 96ers since 1997 and put the club back on the road to success financially and sportingly. The now 78-year-old had already resigned in 2005/06, but returned after just a year.
In order to comply with the so-called 50+1 rule of the German Football League (DFL), the parent club at the Lower Saxony decides on the filling of the managing director positions.