Overview

• The election committee approved four candidates from 13 applicants to stand for two seats on FC Schalke 04’s supervisory board.
• Members will decide the two winners at the ordinary meeting on 15 November.
• Incumbents Johannes Struckmeier and Rolf Haselhorst seek new terms, with Struckmeier chairing the sports committee and Haselhorst leading sustainability.
• External contenders include marketing executive Raphael Brinkert, noted for work on Olaf Scholz’s 2021 campaign, and entrepreneur Stefan Hegmanns, whose company has sponsored Schalke since 2011 and appears on this season’s shirt sleeve.
• To inform voters, the club will publish detailed candidate profiles and is collecting member questions for a compiled video response on its website.