The meat producer and former Schalke supervisory board chairman Clemens Tönnies distances himself from the Russian head of state Vladimir Putin. “Like many others, I was wrong about him,” wrote the entrepreneur on Twitter. He was stunned by Putin’s war of annihilation in Ukraine. The former Schalke supervisory board chairman had been in contact with Putin for years. He also won the Russian company Gazprom as a sponsor for Schalke 04. At that time, he and Putin smiled while holding a Schalke jersey for the cameras. Tönnies also expressly welcomed Schalke’s separation from the club’s previous main sponsor after the Russian attack on Ukraine. “Schalke did everything right with the end of Gazprom,” he wrote in his tweet. His own company ended business activities in Russia in 2021.
Meat producer – Tönnies distances himself from Putin – economy
