Overview
- The restructuring creates a two-person executive team with incumbent Thomas Hengen, who has led the club alone since 2021.
- The commercial managing director role had been vacant since November 2021 following Soeren Oliver Voigt’s resignation.
- Strauß most recently served on SV Elversberg’s board for administration and club development and was released from his duties after reports of a switch surfaced.
- Kaiserslautern says the hire is intended to further professionalize operations in response to increasing future requirements and challenges.
- The club credits Hengen with steering the effects of insolvency in self-administration and the COVID-19 period to achieve financial stabilization.