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Jens Lehmann takes the vacant seat of Jürgen Klinsmann on the Hertha BSC supervisory board. This was confirmed by a spokesman for investor Lars Windhorst of the German press agency. The “Bild” had previously reported on the staff decision among Berliners. Hertha BSC has not yet commented on the decision.
Lehmann should probably deal with sports matters on the Supervisory Board. “I gladly accepted Lars Windhorst’s offer to work on the development of Hertha BSC,” Lehmann said in a press release from the Tennor Group of Windhorst. “I currently see this as one of the most interesting projects in football,” said Lehmann. Klinsmann spoke almost word for word and rated Hertha as one of the most interesting projects in Europe.
Consultant Marc Kosicke is also new to the Supervisory Board, and his clients include coaches Jürgen Klopp and Julian Nagelsmann. Nagelsmann is a coach at RB Leipzig. Hertha BSC will play in the Bundesliga against the Saxons in late May.
Windhorst owns 49.9 percent of Hertha KGaA through its company Tennor. This allows him to occupy four of the nine seats on the Supervisory Board. As with Klinsmann, it was apparently important for the investor to sign a person with a past in active professional soccer.
Lehmann played as a professional with Schalke 04, Borussia Dortmund and Arsenal FC. Under the command of national coach Jürgen Klinsmann, he became the goalkeeper of the 2006 World Cup in Germany. After his playing career, he was an assistant coach at Arsenal and FC Augsburg, where he was released in April 2019 after just a few months. After that, Lehmann had stated that he would now like to work as a head coach. “The way he was as a player would suit me a little bit more,” he said last August. Most recently, he worked as a television expert at RTL.
Lehmann called for easing the crown crisis
Lehmann had recently caused a stir because he called for a relaxation of contact restrictions during the crown crisis. “No one has been able to answer this question for me, why in a stadium like the Allianz Arena, where 70,000 people enter, why can’t 20,000 be put there,” Lehmann said at Sport1’s “Doppelpass”. With a “ten-meter distance,” fans at the stadium “would probably never come between them.” Lehmann also hinted that “both politicians and virologists do not tell us exactly what the virus is like.”
Klinsmann was relieved of his duties as a member of the supervisory board in February after his surprising retirement as Hertha’s coach. Investor Windhorst brought Klinsmann to the Hertha Supervisory Board in November 2019. A few weeks later, Klinsmann also took over as coach. In February 2020, however, he complained about a lack of confidence and resigned as coach.
Klinsmann initially wanted to maintain his position on the supervisory board, but the club leadership opposed this. Since then, the position has been vacant. A few weeks after Klinsmann’s departure from Hertha, the minutes of the Klinsmann camp posted by “Sport Bild” about the work in Hertha made the headlines.
