Frank Steffel has been President of Füchse Berlin for almost two decades. With the handball club he wins national and international titles. In the future, the CDU politician wants to bring success to the Bundesliga soccer club Hertha BSC. Or at least rest.
Frank Steffel, a member of the Bundestag for many years, wants to run for the vacant presidential office of the Bundesliga soccer club Hertha BSC. If he were elected on June 26, Steffel would have to resign prematurely as president of the Bundesliga handball team Füchse Berlin. After the successful Bundesliga relegation and just managed to stay in the class, long-time club boss Werner Gegenbauer resigned. “Hertha needs peace and togetherness,” said Steffel of the “Bild” newspaper.
“After 17 extraordinarily successful years as president of Füchse Berlin, this challenge is of course a difficult decision for me, but the conversation with the new supervisory board makes me very confident about the future of Hertha BSC,” he explained. The members of Hertha BSC now have to decide whether they want a ‘Keep it up!’ Or wanted a fresh start.
“The common goal must be to commit the presidium, supervisory board and management to a common strategy, to end the dispute and to use Hertha’s great youth work more to identify in the Berlin Brandenburg region,” says Steffel’s statement. In the evening, according to the “Berliner Zeitung”, Steffel and Kay Bernstein, another presidential candidate, were invited to a kind of interview with the five-member supervisory board at Hertha BSC.
Steffel was the top candidate for the CDU in Berlin in the 2001 elections to the House of Representatives, which the then Governing Mayor Klaus Wowereit of the SPD won. From 2009 to 2021, the 56-year-old was a member of the Bundestag and was involved in the sports committee, among other things.
