Clemens Tönnies has become a persona non grata. The Schalke boss is hostile to the massive Corona outbreak in his meat factory – fans of the Bundesliga club are calling for his resignation. Uli Hoeneß goes too far. From his own experience, he knows how his friend feels.
Bayern Munich’s honorary president Uli Hoeneß has defended Schalke’s supervisory board boss Clemens Tönnies against what he believes is excessive criticism in the wake of the massive corona outbreak in his meat business. “Sometimes it reminds me of my time with the tax issue. I think if you are in such a machine, everyone tries to overtake the other with his criticism,” said the 68-year-old Hoeneß on the program. Blickpunkt Sport “of Bavarian TV.
He is with Tönnies, with whom he has long been friends. “I have to honestly say: if mistakes have been made, you have to stand by them. He does. If things have to be changed, you have to do that too. I assume that he will do it when necessary”, said Hoeneß. “But that everything that he has done, what he has built up for a large company, is now suddenly in ruins, that cannot be. But that is a sign of our society. If it is your turn, then there’s no stopping it. And he’s experiencing it firsthand now. ”
Tönnies is currently under massive pressure as head of the company and as boss of the Bundesliga club FC Schalke 04. In the main plant of the Tönnies meat group in the Gütersloh district, more than 1,500 employees were infected with the corona virus. That is why there was fierce criticism of the working conditions in the Tönnies company. Many Schalke fans are calling for the chairman of the supervisory board to resign from the Bundesliga club. Hoeneß, the son of a butcher, built his own sausage factory in his life. The company in Nuremberg has been managed by his son Florian for many years.
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