With a even for an Insider rather unexpected step, Clemens Tönnies has taken care of on Tuesday afternoon for the next and perhaps the most serious vibration in the midst of these eventful weeks at FC Schalke 04. To 15.41 at the Bundesliga club announced that the 64-year-old businessman resigned as Chairman of the Supervisory Board with immediate effect. In this, Tönnies was actually considered always as a great songwriter, as a man who does not give up, and also as a friend of the Power, which he defended to the last. Now, however, was determined on the evening of his former Deputy, Jens Buchta unanimously as his successor. The 57-year-old lawyer is a member of the Board since 2006. On Wednesday the club wants to inform you about the realignment.

The often bitter disputes with his nephew Robert for influence in the common meat group are an impressive testimony of the Power of consciousness, and also on Schalke, there was in Tönnies’ 26 years as a Chef in the top control panel several Attempts of Revolutionaries to overthrow the mighty club head. You all are cracking failed, also because it is a skillful Taktierer.

It all started last summer

Now, the Situation was somewhat confusing but probably because of the pressure from all different directions came. “We know how hard that decision is fallen, therefore our highest respect is due to him”, shared with the members of the management Board Alexander Jobst and Jochen Schneider in a joint statement, Tönnies attached to this club. However, it would not be surprising if Schneider and Jobst, the two most important people in the operating business of the area clubs, breathe a sigh of relief secretly. Because Clemens Tönnies has become in the past weeks and months a growing Problem for the area club.

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last summer, a trained meat technicians invented on the day of the craft about “Africans” and their reproduction, since then, he is suspected to be a racist. test Now broadcasts posts to run in all the news about the creepy reality of the cheap meat production, because in the flesh the operation of the large butcher more than a thousand people with Corona infected and the whole Nation suddenly sees, under terrible conditions, with people from Eastern Europe need to work. Tönnies has broken to the current state of knowledge although there are no laws now, but as a man in Public, the looks ruthless to his personal advantage.

Overdue resignation

For a club like FC Schalke 04, who staged themselves as “buddy and grafters club”, as an Association of the little people, this man is the worst representative ever. Last Saturday, around 1000 Schalke under the Motto “Schalke no slaughterhouse is protesting against the Dismantling of our club” for a fresh start without Tönnies. The must have met the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the club. People who know the billionaire closer, to tell again and again how important it is to him the recognition and Affection are. So he settled in the months following his racist Expression, grow a Beard, in order not to be so easily detected. He is now for the second Time within a few months of nationwide criticism, it must pain him very much. This human side of the great crash is the critics but no matter.