Era ends after 23 years |
Rauball stops as BVB President
It is the end of a long and successful era!
After a total of 23 years, Reinhard Rauball (75) is drawing a line, the lawyer will no longer run for BVB president at the general meeting in November. Rauball informed the election committee of his decision on Tuesday.
Rauball in a club announcement: “Every minute of my tenure I have been proud to be President of this great club. For 23 years I have filled this office with a lot of heart and soul.”
And further: “Borussia Dortmund with all the departments and facets of our club has always been a formative part of my life, it still is and it always will be.” From November he says he wants to “stronger” work on his “career as a tennis player”. and soccer players work”.
Rauball was elected BVB President for the third time in 2004. During his first term from 1979 to 1982, at the age of 32, he went down in history as the youngest president of a Bundesliga club.
In his second term of office, between 1984 and 1986, he contributed to the economic consolidation of the troubled district club.
At the beginning of his third term in 2004, Rauball initially saved BVB from the threat of insolvency before helping the club to rise to the top of the national and European ranks. During this time, Dortmund won two championships, won the DFB Cup three times and was in the final of the Champions League in 2013.
BVB Managing Director Hans-Joachim Watzke (63): “We treat Reinhard Rauball’s decision with the greatest possible respect. Our President has made outstanding contributions to BVB. His willingness to make himself available again for the office of president in the most existential crisis of our club in 2004 formed the basis for everything that has happened at BVB since then.”
His successor has already been determined: Rauball will replace his previous deputy Dr. Propose Reinhold Lunow for the office.
In addition to his function as BVB President, Rauball was President of the German League Association from 2007 to 2019, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the DFL and 1st Vice President of the DFB.
