René C. Jäggi

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René Charles Jäggi (born December 17, 1948 ) is a Swiss entrepreneur and sports official .

Career

Jäggi grew up in Basel and went to school there. At the University of Basel , he studied sports and at the University of St. Gallen he heard Marketing . He also completed an additional study abroad at Waseda University in Tokyo .

Between 1973 and 1986 Jäggi worked in various companies in Basel, Cologne and London as well as in the USA and Japan . In July 1986 Horst Dassler (son of Adolf Dassler ) brought him to Adidas as head of sales . After Dassler's death, he became CEO of Adidas on November 1, 1987. At that time, Adidas had been overtaken by competitors like Nike and Reebok ; Adidas was considered uncool by many young people . After Bernard Tapie had bought 80 percent of Adidas in 1990 and converted the company into a stock corporation, Jäggi was dismissed in 1992 by the chairman of the supervisory board, Gilberte Beaux .

In 1994 Jäggi bought the long-established German shoe manufacturer Romika , which was about to go bankrupt , laid off 600 of 800 employees in Germany and relocated most of the production abroad.

Since August 2006 he has been Chairman of the Board of Directors and Delegate of the Board of Directors of GRJ AG in Basel. He is delegate and president of the board of directors of OpenLimit Holding AG in Baar, president of aesurge AG, member of the board of directors of the MCH Group in Basel and vice- chairman of the board of directors of WMM Bauingenieure AG in Münchenstein.

From 2008 to 2012 he was chairman of the supervisory board of Röder Zeltsysteme und Service AG.

Functions in professional football

In December 1996, Jäggi was elected the new President of FC Basel , at a time when FC Basel was facing financial and sporting decline. Within five years Jäggi led FC Basel into a new, modern stadium , to their first championship title in 22 years and for the first time into the Champions League . Thanks to his ties to Japan, he won Toyota as the main sponsor. On October 14, 2002 Jäggi resigned as president.

On September 4th, 2002 Jäggi became the general representative of 1. FC Kaiserslautern . He replaced Jürgen Friedrich , who had resigned . On November 7, 2002, he was officially appointed Chairman of the Board. From January 8, 2003 he was also formally president of 1. FC Kaiserslautern. He saved the financially troubled 1. FCK from bankruptcy by selling the club's own Fritz Walter Stadium and recognizing a tax debt that was still questionable and later negated by a court and secured games at the 2006 World Cup in Kaiserslautern. Parallel to his office as a club, Jäggi acted as managing director of the OC Kaiserslautern branch and was thus responsible for the planning and implementation of the 2006 World Cup in Kaiserslautern. The budget cuts, known as restructuring, turned out to be a consolidation over time; In 2006, FCK was relegated from the Bundesliga . On November 19, 2005, Jäggi resigned from his post, but initially remained in office on a provisional basis for statutory reasons. On July 31, 2006, Jäggi handed over his position to his colleague at the time, Erwin Göbel .

Judo

In 2002 he was involved in awarding the World Judo Championship to Basel; he was also the OK President of the World Cup.

Jäggi holds the 5th Dan in Judo and was appointed 6th Ambassador in 2011 by the International Judo Association due to his services to the international development of the sport.

Private

Jäggi is divorced and has two children. In 2016 Jäggi was found with serious injuries, after his recovery he spoke to the media in 2019 about his suicide attempt at the time .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ manager-magazin.de August 28, 2001: The weak champion
  2. ↑ Brief portrait of Jäggi at OpenLimit Holding AG
  3. ↑ A great honor for the former FCB president. Retrieved December 12, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b Marcel Rohr: «I wanted to go». In: Tages-Anzeiger , 29 August 2019, p. 16 ( Epaper , tagesanzeiger.ch ).
  5. ↑ Felix Bingesser: That's why I shot myself in the head. In: Blick.ch , August 30, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Jäggi, René C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jäggi, René Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss entrepreneur and sports manager
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1948