ZDF: Grindel has no right of return

The TV station will revise the legal opinion to which the DFB chief. Grindel had been around ten years for the station.

Reinhard Grindel has ZDF after his resignation as President of the German football Association (DFB), as well as his Offices at the world Association Fifa and the Union of Europe, Uefa have no right to return to his former employer. This is the result of an external legal Expertise, said ZDF spokesman Alexander floor on Wednesday to the Evangelical press service (epd). The channel revised its previously-held view of the public criticism. Among others, the state had said lawyer Hans Herbert von Arnim, he saw no indication that Grindel had a statutory right to return to the TV channel.

at the beginning of April, it had welcomed at the ZDF, Grindel "due to his former membership in the Bundestag, a Deputy of the law regulated statutory right of return." This fort was for parliamentarians, "if you perceive to its members activities other tasks". Grindel had worked from 1992 to 1997 at the ZDF in Bonn, Germany, from 1997 to 1999, the Studio in Berlin, headed from 1999 to 2002, in Brussels. After that, he sat from 2002 up to 2016 as a member of Parliament for the CDU in the Bundestag.

In April 2016, was elected to Grindel, the DFB-President due to misconduct, the 57-Year-old joined the 2. April, eight days later, he resigned from his international posts. Hans Herbert von Arnim, one of the most respected German legal scholars, was referred to in the law three-month period within which an application for return must be, if the mandate is terminated. This period of exclusion "there are no exceptions," said the 79-Year-old.