Overview

• The urn ceremony began at 11:04 at the Beckhausen-Sutum cemetery, with interment on the Schalker Fan-Feld near the Veltins-Arena.
• Roughly 100 to 150 mourners attended, including Clemens Tönnies, Hans-Joachim Watzke, Frank Baumann, Olaf Thon, Gerald Asamoah, Werner Hansch, Ulrich Klose, Ulrike von der Groeben and Esther Sedlaczek.
• Tönnies delivered a personal eulogy calling Potofski a “Herzblutjournalist” and a trusted friend, as the service was shown on large screens for fans outside.
• The organ played the Schalke hymn “Blau und Weiß, wie lieb ich dich,” the Steigerlied was sung at the grave and a blue‑white football-shaped urn underscored his club identity.
• The Stiftung Schalker Markt raised the necessary donations for the burial, following his August 2 death from leukemia at 73 after a decades-long career with WDR, RTL and Sky.