Alexander Jobst has been the victim of serious threats. The director of Schalke 04, who has already announced his departure from the club, even had to be personally secured for some time. Anonymous threats targeted his children and threatened to pour gasoline on Jobst, the director has confirmed to Bild. The Schalke driver, who took the threats into account in his decision to quit, makes an urgent appeal to supporters.
Jobst will step down on June 30 after ten years as part of Schalke’s board. He cited the anonymous hostility and threats he and his family have faced for some time as the reason for the decision. “I want everyone to pause for a few seconds before posting and ask themselves, ‘What am I doing here?’” Said 47-year-old Jobst. “Of course Schalke is a special and emotional club. But in the end it is just football. It should not become normal for the board of a football club to be given personal protection.”
The threats went very far, Jobst indicated. “Anonymous emails, letters and messages on social media. Someone even sent, ‘We know where your children are at school. Are you sure they come home every day?”, Jobst explained the anonymous messages. “There have even been people who literally wanted to pour me over with petrol and threatened to set me on fire. Believe me, then there is really something wrong with you. ‘Either I create Schalke or Schalke creates me’, I have always said. Now I can say, ‘I am the next to lead Schalke.’ I can still say with certainty that Schalke is in my heart. ”
Jobst’s contract with Schalke continued until 2024, but nevertheless the director has decided to end his time at an early stage. die Königsblauen. “I am not concerned with the criticism, I have always been able to deal with it. But when threats are made, you cross a border. Especially when your family is involved. I have talked about it for a long time with my friend. family and have come to the conclusion that it is time to hand over my responsibility. “
Jobst has been a member of the Schalke Board of Directors since 2011 and is responsible for marketing, sales and organization. The club is experiencing a dramatically bad football season and is heading for direct relegation from the Bundesliga. Schalke is stiff at the bottom, managed to win only one game this season and collected ten paltry points. The gap in sixteen, which entitles you to play promotion / relegation matches at the end of the race, is no less than fifteen points. Degradation therefore seems inevitable.