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Slaughter at Tönnies temporarily suspended
Just one day after the reopening, Tönnies had to briefly interrupt his slaughterhouse. When the district government checked, improvements were ordered, much to the amazement of the operators.
For the first time, Clemens Tönnies has spoken in detail about his retirement from Schalke 04. The former club patron made it clear that he would not check off the club. He also cleared the supposed conditions of his departure.
Clemens Tönnies still wants to remain loyal to the Bundesliga club after his resignation as chairman of the FC Schalke 04 supervisory board. “I will not turn my back on Schalke, I will continue to play. I can’t just tick off the best 26 years of my life I’ve had there, ”said the 64-year-old to the“ Westfalen-Blatt ”, which was published in Bielefeld. Schalke was “incredibly close to his heart, of course. And it will stay like that.”
The meat entrepreneur resigned on June 30th. Tönnies has been a member of the club’s supervisory body since 1994 and has chaired it since 2001. Recently, however, the sporting and economic problems on Schalke became bigger and bigger. Added to this was the Corona outbreak at the Tönnies plant in Rheda-Wiedenbrück, and it came under even more pressure.
Speculations that the state of North Rhine-Westphalia had made his resignation from Schalke a condition for a state guarantee for the club against the background of the massive Corona outbreak in his meat company, Tönnies rejected: “This is a story that I have not yet heard. “The credit line of 25 million euros made available by his group to the club had“ expired a long time ago. Any commitment would always be private, ”said Tönnies.
Tönnies – “Will continue to go to football”
He will also go on to games of Bundesliga star Arminia Bielefeld, even if the Arminen have stopped working with Tönnies after the Corona outbreak. “Unfortunately, it fits into a completely overheated mood, characterized by agitation and inexpertness. I received a very honest letter of apology from Arminia Bielefeld, ”said Tönnies. He would have wished “that what is regretted there would have taken hold beforehand. Then that would never have happened. But here I will continue to go to football. “
The second division champion had announced at the end of June “due to current events, the advertising partnership with the company Tönnies should not continue”. The contract expired on June 30.
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Tönnies demands help from the state
Tönnies is still standing after the lifting of the Gütersloh lockdown. Due to the drop in sales, the slaughterhouse is now demanding state aid. Despite great criticism of the project, the chances for Tönnies are not bad.
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