Crisis at VfB and the president is silent – until now! Claus Vogt (53) answers BILD’s questions.
His most important message: “No, I’m not thinking about resigning.” The self-proclaimed fan president, who has rarely spoken publicly in recent months and has lost a lot of support in the small but loud VfB community on the Internet , feels differently
Vogt: “Yes, I feel a lot of support from the fans. Also because the people out there have a keen sense of who has a heart for VfB. Those who constantly spread internal information and untruths behind the scenes and thus cause unrest – they are not. They harm VfB.”
Whom does Vogt mean? Certainly the club advisory board members Martin Bizer and Susanne Schosser, who resigned this week. They had indirectly accused Vogt of behaving unprofessionally and of being alone in maintaining power. The President settles accounts with them: “The criticism is mere judgments without any real basis.
The accusations made here between the lines are untrue. For example, at our meeting, Mr Bizer agreed to accept democratic majority decisions in the future. Two days later, however, he publicly resigned his office.
He later published VfB internals from the meeting. This is damaging to the club. And one more thing: Ms. Schosser has not been actively involved in committee work for months. She was also absent from the closed meeting, which is important for VfB.”
The VfB supervisory board: President Claus Vogt (53/middle), Rainer Adrion (69/left) and Christian Riethmüller (48/right).
The President denies that Vogt wanted to have Christian Riethmüller, his colleague on the Presidium, removed from the Supervisory Board. He claims: “There’s no question of ‘removal’. At the request of the association’s advisory board, it was discussed whether it is necessary for all three members of the executive committee to be on the supervisory board. The idea was that a member of the presidency should be able to focus solely on eV matters.”
Is this version of the President correct? The fact is that at least one close confidant of the president is very active on the advisory board. At a meeting of the Supervisory Board, Riethmüller asked its President whether Vogt would still like Riethmüller to remain on the Supervisory Board. Vogt, who is also head of the supervisory board, was silent.
Two people tell BILD that Vogt sees his colleague on the executive committee as a rival who all too often disagrees. For example, on the subject of remuneration for the chairman of the supervisory board, which Vogt is striving for and Riethmüller sees critically.
Even under CEO Alexander Wehrle (47/l.) and President Claus Vogt (53/r.) Things remain unsettled at VfB.
Regarding the criminal complaint for a violation of the statutes, which was filed by a member of the association (BILD reported), Vogt says: “Should there be such a criminal complaint, which we have not yet received, it will be examined by the responsible authorities. We assume that such a criminal complaint has no legal basis. Internal and external lawyers have confirmed to VfB that there are no violations of the statutes. The criminal complaint comes from a certain area that we can classify and puts our own interests before the well-being of VfB.”
His call: “We should ask ourselves: don’t we have anything more important to do at VfB at the moment than keep discussing the same issues that have already been clarified? Any unrest is harmful. Our team and the whole of VfB Stuttgart now have to concentrate on staying up.”
But is that really possible with this VfB under his leadership?
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