The newly elected president August Markl
The ADAC? “A tota lly matted, commercially oriented institution that makes money on the guise of the club.” Strong words at the start of the Extraordinary General Meeting of the ADAC. Spoken by a man who is furious and has canceled his membership in the largest German auto club for more than three decades.
A film with his statement on Saturday led some 200 representatives from the regional associations relentlessly into a topic – and should they probably do not even realize how much is their once proud ADAC at stake. After hours of lectures in the festively decorated ADAC headquarters in Munich, they agreed a fundamental structural reform for the club, with its nearly 1 9 million members unanimously. The new ADAC is humble, transparent and democratic therefore come as before.
The 66-year-old August Markl is to provide as newly elected President that the reform will be implemented as soon as possible. The Munich doctor for more than four decades in the ADAC and was initially moved provisionally to the top. Now he shifts his retirement and the planned cruise with his wife, to help them to recover the ADAC. “When you’re working in a club as long as I do, this results in a special responsibility,” he said. His critics, he now has to convince them that he brings a renewal despite its deep roots in the ADAC about. 28 of the delegates voted in the secret ballot against the radiologist in re tirement.
The thickest chunk of the reform, which he will try and do is a separation of the economic activities of the association ADAC. These businesses – such as insurance deals or Travel – will henceforth be bundled into a separate public company with a board at the top of the must can not comment on the club tip. The long, as called unbundling is a requirement that the club may retain its status as a registered association (eV).
The Club status saves the ADAC many millions of euro s in taxes a year and allows him Roadside Assistance much cheaper than insurance companies offer. With a first signal from the Munich District Court, which shall examine the case for months, is expected before Christmas. Without the approval of the reform of the ADAC would hardly have had chances to convince the court.
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An extraordinary general meeting had not existed at the ADAC since 1948. But the situation was so dramatic and never in the history of the club. The scandal of fakes in the price of the favorite car of the Germans, “Yellow Angel”, brought in January the ball rolling. Thereafter, the ADAC came under suspicion. Almost every day it rained new allegations. Why the ADAC sold really long time child seats, which he himself had tested? Why were members of junk mail the magazine “Reader’s Digest”? Where the membership fees actually flow exactly? Why rumbled the ADAC in political debates for years on behalf of its members unilateral positions out?
In this newly established ADAC there should be no more such mixtur es. For months had legions of employees working in the reform. In recent weeks, the leaders promoted at all levels of the ADAC and the public for approval. The public debate at the Annual General Meeting in Munich was also perhaps therefore largely peaceful. Many of the representatives from the regions involved for decades as a volunteer for the ADAC and hope that they can be proud again sometime in their club. The basis for this is done, according to Ralf Thiesing, who traveled to the Regional Association Weser-Ems to Munich with the approval of the reform. “We poured the foundation to build on a new house.”
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