Out in Leipzig: Mintzlaff becomes the new Red Bull boss
Oliver Mintzlaff
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Oliver Mintzlaff leaves RB Leipzig. The club manager moves to the executive floor of the Red Bull group.
Oliver Mintzlaff will leave RB Leipzig. After the death of Dietrich Mateschitz, the previous club manager was raised to the management level of the Red Bull Group. There he is to become one of three managing directors.
He has been CEO of Leipzig since 2014, but is much better known as managing director. Oliver Mintzlaff has held this post, which made him quasi-club boss, for almost seven years now. He is largely responsible for the rise of the still controversial club.
Because of this constant and good work, he has apparently recommended himself for higher tasks in the Red Bull cosmos. As the picture reports, Mintzlaff will leave RBL to become one of the three managing directors of the entire group. In short: the 47-year-old is moving to the top of the company.
This step is said to have been the wish of Dietrich Mateschitz, his son and the Thai owner of the group. Mintzlaff will be officially responsible for “Corporate Projects and Investments”. All sports projects are united under this field: In addition to football, there is also ice hockey and the Formula 1 team. The TV station ‘Servus TV’ is also one of them.
According to the report, the employees in the RBL office were informed of this change on Friday morning.
The club needs a new managing director. An uncertain and therefore exciting starting position, since Max Eberl will also join in the near future. It is quite conceivable that he will then become more powerful than he would have been under Mintzlaff. Although he plays a key role in determining his successor, the newcomer will have a completely different standing internally.
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