2024-06-08 17:49:15
The DFB is taking motion in opposition to Ballermann star Ikke Hüftgold. Now the Munich Regional Court docket has apparently handed a judgment – with pricey penalties.
Shortly earlier than the beginning of the European Soccer Championship, the German Soccer Affiliation is in courtroom with social gathering singer Ikke Hüftgold. The rationale: The 47-year-old created the “Occasion Nationwide Crew” for the worldwide competitors and offered merchandise equivalent to jerseys and consuming video games. He used a emblem that appears similar to that of the DFB. The soccer affiliation then tried to cease its use.
The DFB instructed the “Bild” newspaper that it wished to guard the emblem from individuals who “use or misuse it with out permission”. Ikke Hüftgold’s firm, the Summerfield Group, initially obtained a warning letter demanding that the corporate submit a cease-and-desist declaration with a penalty clause. Ikke Hüftgold let the deadline cross, so the DFB took the matter to the district courtroom. München I zog.
A listening to passed off there on Thursday afternoon, however with out outcome. “After two hours, the choose had not decided,” Ikke Hüftgold reported to t-online. The DFB had introduced him with a settlement, however he had rejected it. The choose’s resolution was scheduled for the next day after the listening to – and is now accessible.
“At 6 p.m. the decision was lastly in,” Ikke Hüftgold wrote to t-online late on Friday night. “First I’ve to scrap the emblem.” Nonetheless, he doesn’t need to settle for this. “We’re getting ready an attraction,” the singer says combatively. What does that imply in concrete phrases? It’s unclear. For now, the DFB has been discovered to be proper and Hüftgold is not allowed to promote its merchandise with the controversial emblem.
There had already been a “slight tendency in the direction of the DFB” beforehand, reported Ikke Hüftgold after the listening to on Thursday. Nevertheless, the 47-year-old doesn’t need to settle for the decision and can lodge an attraction.
If he actually has to cease the sale, Ikke Hüftgold faces excessive monetary losses. “A number of tens of hundreds of T-shirts and different objects have been produced. If I needed to cease them, we’re speaking about losses of 300,000 to 400,000 euros. On high of that, there are horrendous authorized prices,” he defined to “Bild”.
However it isn’t simply the financial loss that issues Ikke Hüftgold: “I’m not involved concerning the emblem or a potential violation of regulation, I’m involved concerning the DFB’s silly double requirements. He tells me that he distances himself from Ballermann drunks and alcohol and all addictive substances. However on the similar time he has been promoting beer for years and dealing with bwin.” bwin is a web based betting model that is among the DFB’s promoting companions.
The soccer affiliation, for its half, careworn to “Bild” that it stands for “well being, sport and a life with out medicine – not consuming video games.” “It was apparent to us that customers may very well be deceived concerning the origin of the nationwide social gathering staff’s jersey – the similarity to our earlier DFB coaching garments is just too nice,” the assertion stated. Nonetheless, the affiliation is open to the essential intention of the nationwide social gathering staff. “We wish our nationwide staff to provide as many individuals as potential a purpose to rejoice,” stated the DFB.