Overview
- Kahn introduced a newly recruited backer, identified in reports under the pseudonym 'Gerd Tanner,' at a private Munich event to support OKSC’s planned multi-club acquisitions.
- Commercial credit checks and Munich district court records list Tanner in the highest risk category with multiple hard negative marks, including an August 2025 note that creditor satisfaction was deemed excluded.
- Claims of a close association with the late industrialist Heinz Hermann Thiele are disputed by the family environment, which says Tanner was told not to present himself as a general representative of the Thiele group.
- BILD reports Kahn recently accepted an advisory role in Tanner’s Swiss family office, while declining to answer questions about their partnership.
- Tanner’s lawyer declined to comment on business dealings or investments, the asserted funding sources remain unverified, and Kahn’s earlier bid for Girondins de Bordeaux failed this summer.