He was once the economic Wunderkind Lars Windhorst, the controversial Investor and entrepreneur, engages in the Bundesliga-shops and secure, according to “mirror”information for a share of Hertha BSC Berlin.
Bundesliga club Hertha BSC has found according to the news magazine “der Spiegel” a new Investor. Therefore, entrepreneur Lars Windhorst (article image) is set to invest at least EUR 125 million by the Berliners. According to the report, the cash provider acquires the investment company Tennor 37.5 percent of the capital club.
A maximum of Tennor could have in the future, 49.9 percent share in Hertha BSC GmbH & co. KGaA, the professional Department of the club. For the additional shares was to be paid in a second step, more money. Overall, Hertha could get according to the research of “image”-newspaper of up to 225 million euros in the framework of this deal.
Soon, a real “Big City Club”? Hertha BSC Berlin
“The Hertha can be like other clubs in London or Madrid to be a real ‘Big City Club’,” said Windhorst the “mirror”. He hoped that the presence of this Association in the capital is a tremendous growth. The Club wanted to invest the extra money, especially in the purchase of new players. “This increases our opportunities to come in the medium term in a range of international courts”, is managing Director Michael Preetz is quoted.
16 the first company
Windhorst is not the undisputed entrepreneurs. He had founded with 16 of his own company, the then Chancellor, Helmut Kohl, accompanied on trips, and as a kind of economic Wunderkind to be made aware of. Later, the group of companies of the Ostwestfalen went bust, he had to privately file for bankruptcy. But Windhorst has returned as an international Investor on the economic stage.
ml/jk (dpa, SID, rtr)