The fans of Hansa Rostock are famous and infamous. Once again, they showed their negative side on the last match day. The supervisory board is reacting.
Hansa Rostock won 4-0 against Rot-Weiss Essen last weekend. After the game one after the release of coach Bernd Hollerbach, the second division relegated team finally had a reason to be happy again.
But this was actually already clouded in advance. Because unrepentant Hansa Rostock hooligans attacked a special train from Essen with several hundred RWE fans. They threw cobblestones at the train and made for nationwide, even Europe-wide, negative headlines.
“As far as we know, nobody was hurt. That’s the top priority. It sends a shiver down your spine when you see the pictures. What stones were thrown there. It’s hard to see,” said RWE sports director Christian Flüthmann, who was shocked.
Only two days after this shock, there are consequences. And not for the perpetrators, but for the Hansa supervisory board. As the board announced, Rainer Lemmer (nine years on the board), Christian Stapel (nine years), Henryk Bogdanow (eight years), Frank Schollenberger (four years) and Immanuel Fuhrmann (three years) have resigned from the board of FC Hansa Rostock with immediate effect. And this also has something to do with the hooligan scenes from the weekend.
Recent events such as an attack on a passenger train carrying visiting fans, racist slurs, discrimination and, ultimately, the targeted defamation of a member of the supervisory board in the stadium, are examples of this. A red line has been crossed for us here!
Resigned Hansa Supervisory Board member
“We are a supervisory board working on a voluntary basis and, with our commitment to F.C. Hansa, we combine values such as solidarity, fairness, tradition, open-mindedness and respect for people and sporting opponents. For some time now, we have been observing a development that fills us with concern, that increasingly questions our values and that makes our basic consensus of working together in such structures impossible. Examples are incidents from the recent past such as an attack on a passenger train with visiting guest fans, racist slurs, discrimination and, ultimately, the targeted defamation of a member of the supervisory board in the stadium,” reads a letter from the resigned supervisory board members.
They continued: “A red line has been crossed for us here! We do not want to silently go along with this development, and we ask all members, fans and people working for the club to pause for a few seconds and reflect on what has happened. We thank our colleagues on the supervisory board, who fully support the decision, and all employees for their daily commitment. We also thank all members and supporters, volunteers and supporters around the club. We thank the board for its work for F.C. Hansa, along with the expectation that they will complete the structural change process we initiated.”