2023-05-22 21:14:59
As expected, Kurt Gollowitzer has been approved as the new president of Wiener Austria. As part of an extraordinary general assembly of the Bundesliga soccer team, the managing director of Wien-Holding was elected as the successor to Frank Hensel on Monday evening. Gollowitzer received 98.67 percent of the votes of the full members of the association. There was no opposing candidate. Hensel, who has been President since 2018, had made the office available.
“I am overwhelmed by the great approval of the Austria members. I can promise one thing: I will give everything for the club as president. I have been connected to Austria for a long time and deep in my heart I am a violet,” said Gollowitzer in a first statement. Unlike his predecessors, the 50-year-old takes over Austria in the most turbulent times. The financial situation of the club is still precarious, the traditional club only received the license this year at the second attempt.
“The main goal is to bring economic stability to the club so that we can invest more in the sport again,” said Gollowitzer. The financial situation is a big challenge. “But I am absolutely convinced that we can achieve the turnaround, because Jürgen Werner as a board member brings a lot of sporting know-how and Austria also has great economic potential with one of the best business networks in Austria.”
More budget for the first team of the violets should be screwed. Currently, 70 percent would be spent on administration, but not 30 percent on game operations. “The goal must be to get the sports budget to over 50 percent in the next one or two years,” said Gollowitzer. “Austria is still a football club, the most important asset is still there.”
Winning more sponsors for the club will be one of the “great tasks” of the native of Burgenland. As president, Gollowitzer should use his contacts in business. A topic that Hensel was blamed for. There have been no major sponsorship deals in recent years. Austria was looking for a permanent main sponsor for many years before the steel wholesaler Frankstahl, owned by Marcel Javor, an entrepreneur close to Austria, got on board last year.
Hensel announced his retirement in March. In April, the board of directors unanimously agreed on Gollowitzer as the successor candidate. The law graduate has been a member of the Austria committees for a long time. He is currently the deputy of the supervisory board chairman Peter Kroha in the AG, and in the association he was deputy for Robert Zadrazil on the administrative board. He resigned from this post in the course of the presidential election.
Before becoming Managing Director of Wien Holding, Gollowitzer was Commercial Director of the Wiener Stadthalle for around five years from September 2018. In addition to his activities in business, he is also a member of the supervisory board of the Jewish Museum of the City of Vienna and the United Theaters Vienna.
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