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Martin Kind (2010)

Martin Kind (born April 28, 1944 in Walsrode ) is a German entrepreneur who also has Swiss citizenship . He is the owner and managing director of the Kind Group . With a one-year break, he was Chairman of the Board of Hannover 96 from 1997 to 2019 . V. He is also managing director of the club's own Hannover 96 Management GmbH , which is authorized as a general partner to manage Hannover 96 GmbH & Co. KGaA , into which the club's professional football department has been outsourced since 1999. Together with other investors, Kind is the only limited partner in Hannover 96 GmbH & Co. KGaA through Hannover 96 Sales & Service GmbH & Co. KG .

Entrepreneur

The ancestors of the child come from Chur in Switzerland . His grandfather emigrated to Germany, where he got married. After his birth, the child also received a Swiss passport. In 1970, Kind took over the hearing aid specialist business founded by his father, now known as Kind Hörgeräte GmbH & Co. KG. It was developed into a branch company under him and is (as of 2011) the market leader in hearing aid retail in Germany. His company is the only provider to manufacture some of the goods it sells in Germany.

Club President

On September 26, 1997, the trained hearing aid acoustician and businessman Martin Kind took over the honorary chairmanship of the Hannoversche Sportverein von 1896 eV for the first time. After internal disputes about its predecessor Utz Claassen and the relegation to the regional league, the club was in bad shape, both athletically and financially. The rebuilding was successful under Martin Kind. He led the club's football department with a strict management style for the promotion from the Regionalliga Nord back to the Bundesliga .

During his tenure, the Lower Saxony stadium in Hanover was converted into an AWD arena (now: HDI arena ), financed by loans . This created first-class conditions for football games in Hanover, for example for Bundesliga operations or games during the 2006 World Cup .

At the beginning of the 2005/2006 season, Kind surprisingly resigned on the grounds that it had set the course for a promising future. He handed over the management of the club to Götz von Fromberg . The professional company was led by the managing directors Karl-Heinz Vehling and Ilja Kaenzig . All three resigned in July 2006. The reason was disagreements with the investors in the professional football company, including Martin Kind, about the course of the professional football company and the transfer policy. On the day of Vehling's resignation, the child picked up the strings again.

In 2014, Martin Kind announced that he would retire from the chairmanship of the management board by the 2017/18 season and move to the supervisory board. At this point in time, according to his statement, the voting rights in the professional football company should be completely in the hands of his investment company. Under its chairman Martin Kind, the club has already transferred all of the club's own limited shares in the professional football company to a group of business people around him.

Contrary to this statement, he remained in office for the 2017/18 season. In August 2017, he had submitted an exception application to the DFL , which was supposed to override the 50 + 1 rule so that the voting rights could be taken over by investors. After a decision by the DFL was imminent at the beginning of February 2018 and the press announced that the application would probably be rejected, Martin Kind put the application on hold. After his application was reactivated, the DFL rejected it as expected in July 2018. The DFL Presidium came to the decision that the criterion of "substantial and uninterrupted funding over 20 years" was not met.

At the general meeting of the association on March 23, 2019, the supervisory board candidates favored by Martin Kind could not prevail. The previous internal opposition has since provided all five supervisory boards. This ended Martin Kind's voluntary work in the association. Sebastian Kramer was his successor . His activity as managing director of the professional football company remains unaffected.

Controversy

Child at the opening of the Hanover business fair (2014)
Child at the farewell to the director of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library , Georg Ruppelt in the stadium of Hannover 96 (2015)

Kind is a vehement opponent of the 50 + 1 rule applicable in the Bundesliga , which was installed to protect clubs (or the corporations belonging to the clubs) from purely profit-oriented investors. It states that the majority of the shares in the professional departments must remain with the “mother association” (e.g. Hannover 96 eV). The respective corporations (e.g. Hannover 96 GmbH & Co. KGaA) therefore do not have the power to make decisions. The only exceptions in the Bundesliga were the works clubs Bayer 04 Leverkusen and VfL Wolfsburg . The so-called Lex Leverkusen allowed the professional departments of the 1st and 2nd Bundesliga to be taken over by their investors after they had been involved in the club for more than 20 years, but only if this was the case before June 1, 1999 . In fact, the rule only applied to Leverkusen and Wolfsburg.

Child threatened to take legal action against this supposed unequal treatment. In August 2011, he was able to achieve the abolition of the deadline at the Permanent Court of Arbitration for clubs and corporations in the licensing leagues , so that now all companies or investors who have been committed to an association for over 20 years can override the 50 + 1 rule and can take over the majority of votes in a Bundesliga club. The formulation of "substantial and uninterrupted funding over 20 years, which is the main condition for an exception to the 50 + 1 rule, was defined in the interpretation guidelines in 2014. These guidelines were approved at the DFL general meeting, including Hannover 96, at 35 : 0 agreed. In the following year, Dietmar Hopp made use of the change made by the arbitral tribunal in 2011 with the guidelines from 2014 , who took over the majority of votes at TSG 1899 Hoffenheim in 2015. The compromise found allows long-term investors to pass on their shares to third parties For example, after the 20-year period in 2017/2018, Kind wants to completely oust the Hannover 96 club from professional business and let investors take over it. As soon as the takeover is complete, Kind wants to give up his post as club president in 2018. Already In April 2015, at the annual general meeting of the association, the sale of the remaining shares in Prof iabteilung to Kinds investor group, so that only voting rights remain with the association. According to the chairman of the supervisory board, Valentin Schmidt, the vote on it was carried out with “considerable dissenting votes” and had to be repeated twice. The remaining shares of 15.66 percent were sold to the group of investors around the club's president and entrepreneur for only 3.25 million euros. According to Handelsblatt , the purchase price was determined based on the book value; if the market price had been used as a basis, a multiple would have to be paid.

Kinds (often referred to as such in the media) “wear and tear” of managers and trainers and the resulting lack of continuity in sporting development are also critically examined. During Kind's tenure (1997–2005, 2006–2016) there were fifteen head coaches and ten sports directors. A lack of consistency, questionable personnel decisions and an unbridled urge to communicate on the part of Martin Kind are considered obstacles to the successful development of Hannover 96 and are also held responsible for sporting setbacks.

Martin Kind regularly attracts attention through careless statements in the media, in which he often makes hurtful comments about employees and supporters of the association. He designated z. B. a player after a long injury break as comfortable and overweight and his own followers as "assholes". He summed up all the titles and a more than 100-year history of the club before his own engagement there with the words “Hannover 96 was a shitty club”. It must also be considered unusual to tell the press the names of rejected (and otherwise employed) applicants.

Since around 2013, there have been calls from the fan blocks at home and away games, “Kind must go”, and banners are shown calling for Kinds to be deposed as club president. This continued even after the Ultras completely boycotted the professional team's games in protest against Kind for the 2014/15 season and are therefore no longer present. Fans of other teams also repeatedly join the protests and demands for dismissal. When he announced his resignation in 2014, Kind said: “Then I'll stop. In addition: I have the deep conviction that you shouldn't do a job just to expect gratitude in the end. ”At the beginning there were violent backlashes from other viewers from the seating area, some of whom were still child-friendly, some for them Team feared negative mood due to the calls. However, the backlash has subsided since around 2018 and the calls for children to leave can be heard regularly from all parts of the stadium.

Private

Child is married and has two sons.

capital

In 2013, his fortune was estimated at 600 million euros, making him the 188th richest German.

Awards

In 2006 he was awarded the Hanover city badge. In 2013 he received the tenth ring of honor from the Garbsen Circle of Friends . In 2018 he was awarded the Lower Saxony State Medal.

Memberships

Martin is a child

  • Honorary member of Lesestart Hannover
  • Member of the board of trustees of the Rudolf von Bennigsen Foundation since 2002
  • Since 2004 chairman of the board of Die Wahren Dorff Freunde e. V.
  • Since 2005 member of the supervisory board of Hannoverscher Rennverein e. V.
  • Member of the NORD / LB supervisory board since 2005
  • Since 2006 member of the foundation group for the Mädchenchor Hannover e. V.
  • Since 2006 2nd chairman agency for adult education and further education
  • Member of the Advisory Board of the Gerald Asamoah Foundation since 2007
  • Member of the Advisory Board of the German-Turkish Network Lower Saxony

See also

Web links

Commons : Martin Kind  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hannover 96 sells to child. In: Spiegel Online . April 28, 2015, accessed November 18, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Markus Wanderl: All power to the child. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung (online). April 28, 2015, accessed November 18, 2015 .
  3. ↑ «Swiss character drives me» August 7, 2011
  4. ↑ FAZ: "Hearing aids can do a lot more" , October 30, 2011
  5. ↑ Handelsblatt: "Success is so easy!" , March 25, 2014
  6. ↑ Hanover President Kind: “I can't force anyone to buy tickets” In: Spiegel-Online . 17th November 2014.
  7. ^ Controversy over the alpha male's million deal In: faz.net . April 28, 2015.
  8. ^ A b The Hannover 96 system . In: Handelsblatt. May 11, 2015, p. 22 f.
  9. ↑ Hannover 96: Martin Kind applies for a majority takeover . ( handelsblatt.com [accessed February 5, 2018]).
  10. ↑ DFL will probably refuse to take over Hannover 96. Retrieved February 5, 2018 .
  11. ↑ NDR: 96 takeover: child lets application rest. Retrieved February 5, 2018 .
  12. ↑ DFL Presidium rejects application for an exception to the 50 + 1 rule for Hannover 96 and Mr. Martin Kind. In: DFL German Football League GmbH - dfl.de. July 18, 2018, accessed December 10, 2018 (German).
  13. ↑ welt.de of March 23, 2019, Martin Kind punished - Change of power at Hannover 96 , accessed on December 1, 2019.
  14. ↑ Kind can take over Hannover 96 in 2017 , August 30, 2011, accessed on November 29, 2015
  15. ↑ Questions and answers about the 50 + 1 rule. In: DFL German Football League GmbH - dfl.de. July 18, 2018, accessed December 10, 2018 (German).
  16. ↑ DFL Presidium: DFL Circular 2014, guidelines / requirements for 50 + 1 exceptions. (PDF) DFL, December 12, 2014, accessed December 10, 2018 .
  17. ↑ a b Unloved Investors ( Memento from January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Sportschau.de . Retrieved April 8, 2014.
  18. ↑ a b Martin Kind announces withdrawal , October 28, 2014, accessed on November 29, 2015
  19. ↑ Bundesliga team: Hannover 96 sells to child , April 28, 2015, accessed on November 29, 2015
  20. ↑ Trouble at the general meeting. ( Memento from April 28, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Lüneburger Zeitung-online . April 28, 2015.
  21. ↑ At Martin Kind, the trainers give up on their own. In: welt.de . Retrieved March 23, 2016.
  22. ^ After separation from Schaaf: 96-President Kind also counts Bader. In: 11freunde.de . Retrieved April 5, 2016.
  23. ↑ Inadequate performance structure at management level. In: Huffington Post. Retrieved September 30, 2015.
  24. ↑ Child: "We were late at Lakic". In: Kicker.de . January 12, 2012.
  25. ↑ Volker Königkrämer: Hanover boss calls his own fans "assholes". In: stern.de . 3rd September 2012.
  26. ↑ Martin Kind: "Hannover 96 was a shitty club". In: HAZ.de . April 5, 2013.
  27. ↑ Lukas Rilke: Hannover 96: Trapattoni wanted to be Slomka's successor. In: Spiegel Online . 2nd January 2014.
  28. ↑ cf. Speaker description In: manager-lounge.manager-magazin.de .
  29. ↑ Success is so easy! In: Handelsblatt . March 25, 2014.
  30. ↑ Martin Kind receives ring of honor in Garbsen. Photos. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . November 19, 2013, accessed December 1, 2019 .
  31. ↑ State medal for Professor Dr. Eva-Maria Neher, Professor Gudrun Schröfel, Martin Kind and Dirk Roßmann - Prime Minister Stephan Weil honors four outstanding personalities of the state ( Memento from August 29, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), press release from the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture from August 28, 2018
  32. ↑ Who we are , subpage of lesestart-hannover.de
personal data
SURNAME Child, martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and football official
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Walsrode , Germany