Hansa Rostock fans are famous and notorious. Once again, they showed their negative side on the last match day. The supervisory board is taking action.
Hansa Rostock won 4-0 against Rot-Weiss Essen last weekend. After the first game since coach Bernd Hollerbach was dismissed, the second division relegation team finally had something to cheer about again.
But this was actually overshadowed in the run-up to the game. Unrepentant Hansa hooligans attacked a special train from Essen carrying several hundred RWE fans. They threw paving stones at the train and made negative headlines across Germany and even Europe.
“As far as we know, no one was injured. That is the top priority. It sends a chill down your spine when you see the pictures. The stones that were thrown. It’s hard to watch,” said RWE sporting director Christian Flüthmann, who was shocked.
Just two days after this shock, the first consequences are already being felt. And not for the perpetrators, but for the Hansa supervisory board. As it announced, Rainer Lemmer (nine years on the supervisory board), Christian Stapel (nine years), Henryk Bogdanow (eight years), Frank Schollenberger (four years), and Immanuel Fuhrmann (three years) have resigned from the supervisory board of FC Hansa Rostock with immediate effect. And this also has something to do with the hooligan scenes from the weekend.
Examples include recent incidents such as an attack on a passenger train carrying visiting fans, racist abuse, discrimination and, ultimately, the deliberate defamation of a member of the supervisory board in the stadium. For us, a line has been crossed!
Resigned Hansa supervisory board member
“We are a volunteer supervisory board and our commitment to F.C. Hansa is based on values such as solidarity, fairness, tradition, openness and respect for people and sporting opponents. For some time now, we have been observing a development that fills us with concern, increasingly calls our values into question and makes our basic consensus of working together in such structures impossible. Examples include recent events such as an attack on a passenger train carrying visiting fans, racist remarks, discrimination, and ultimately the deliberate defamation of a supervisory board member in the stadium,” according to a letter from the resigning supervisory board members.
It continues: “A red line has been crossed for us here! We do not want to remain silent about this development and ask all members, fans, and people working for the club to pause for a few seconds and reflect on what has happened. We would like to thank our colleagues on the supervisory board, who fully support the decision, and all employees for their daily commitment. We would also like to thank all members and supporters, volunteers, and supporters of the club. We would like to thank the executive board for its work for F.C. Hansa and expect it to complete the structural change process we have initiated.”