RB Leipzig will apparently have to look for a new club boss. According to consistent media reports, after the death of founder Dietrich Mateschitz, Oliver Mintzlaff was promoted to managing director of the Red Bull Group.
Almost two weeks after Death of Red Bull founder Dietrich Mateschitz the Austrian shower and sports entertainment group is pushing ahead with the succession plan. And according to consistent reports from the picture-Newspaper and the German press agency (dpa) from Friday morning (November 4th), Oliver Mintzlaff, the previous CEO of Bundesliga soccer club RB Leipzig, plays a central role.
Mintzlaff manages Red Bull sports entertainment and Servus TV
Accordingly, the 47-year-old will leave the club founded by Mateschitz in 2009 and will be one of three managing directors in Fuschl am See from November 15th. The employees were informed of the personnel on Friday, it is said. The former track and field athlete, who has led RB Leipzig since 2014, is responsible for the so-called “Corporate Projects and Investments” branch of the group. Behind this lies the responsibility for all sports business activities, including football (RB Leipzig, RB Salzburg, New York Red Bulls), ice hockey (EHC RB Munich, EC RB Salzburg), sailing and Formula 1 with Max Verstappen’s world champion team. In addition, Mintzlaff is to lead the in-house television station Servus-TV.
Noisy dpa there will initially be no direct successor at the head of RB Leipzig. Mintzlaff was enthroned at the top of the hierarchy as CEO. Florian Hopp (finance) and Johann Plenge (corporate management) are also on the board. The former Springer journalist Florian Scholz operates as Commercial Director Sport and “Chief Marketing Officer”. From December, the former occurs Gladbacher Max Eberl resigned as sports director at the Cottaweg.
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