Investor Windhorst wants to exert more influence

Investor Lars Windhorst wants to exert even more influence at Hertha BSC in the future. He also criticized the previous form of cooperation among the Berliners.

“We will do everything in the next few years to be successful. Everything – and by that I really mean everything,” said Windhorst RBB and thereby emphasized his hunger for success. Hertha is currently only 15th in the Bundesliga.

In addition, the entrepreneur would like structural changes in the “Big City Club”. “I expected that you would work more constructively and positively on projects and topics as a team, exchange ideas and really develop the club with joy, creativity and dynamism and take it to a new level. That has not really happened so far,” explained he.

Windhorst has paid around 375 million euros to the capital city club since its entry in 2019, originally to receive 66.6 percent of Hertha BSC & Co. KGaA. According to RBB However, due to value shifts, his holding company only holds 64.7 percent of the shares.

Hertha President Werner Gegenbauer underlined the distinction between club and investor in view of the statements. “During this investment phase, which was of course also burdened by the pandemic that ultimately hit most of the companies, agreements were adapted and changed,” the 71-year-old told the broadcaster.

He stated: “The association leads and informs. It goes without saying that Lars Windhorst or Tennor have the right to formulate their own expectations of the investment. But the goals of Hertha BSC are formulated by the management of the KG or the association.”