After his resignation as DFB President Reinhard Grindel has, in principle, the possibility to work again at the ZDF. For the public broadcaster, he worked in various positions for more than a decade as a television journalist. He then sat as a CDU Deputy in the Bundestag. On Tuesday, he stepped back from the top of the German football Association. “Mr. Grindel has due to his former membership in the Bundestag, a Deputy of the law regulated statutory right of return,” said the ZDF on Wednesday on request. There is held, according to the ZDF, “the fact that the deputies act also applies to employees of the public service. Public service for the purposes of this provision, among other things, the activities in the service of corporations, institutions or foundations under public Law” and, therefore, also for the ZDF. The 57-year-old Grindel was in the days before his resignation due to revelations about questionable extra income and the adoption of an expensive watch worthy under pressure.

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In his original profession, Grindels right, said the spokesman of the German journalists Association, Hendrik Zörner. That he could, and would, in essence, a matter of course. “If he would do themselves a Favor, he must judge,” said Zörner. Because credibility is journalism a high level Good. Grindel was through his work as DFB-President of the very well known and have to the Reports about the background of his resignation, a certain Image. It is to be expected that many viewers would bring to his future work as a Journalist.

At the ZDF was busy Grindel from 1992 to 1997, first as an editor in the ZDF Studio in Bonn, from 1997 to September 1999, then as head of the ZDF regional studios in Berlin. From October 1999 to December 2002, he was head of the ZDF Studios in Brussels, since January 2003 he has provided to the ZDF. A member of the German Bundestag Grindel, from 2002 to 2016. The Post as DFB President, he took over in April 2016.

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return The right of return also applies to other employees in the ZDF. A spokesman told the daily mirror, “as in all companies there is the ZDF and the different types of law (for example, educational leave), or regulated by collective agreement leave of absence options for employees”. According to the ZDF-collective bargaining agreement approximately on the request of an employee unpaid special leave for caring for family members is granted.

As Steffen 2010 from the Anchorman of the “joined today-journal” in the office of the speaker of the German government, Steffen Seibert, he was, according to ZDF-the information was not granted any leave of absence in the above sense, but a General right of return. A return, in a journalistic function would not be possible, said ZDF spokesman. A comparable right of return was granted in the past in a similar Situation, so switching to a political function outside of the scope of the deputies, laws of the Federation and the Länder, Uwe-Karsten Heye, who worked as a spokesman for the Schröder government. Other similar cases, there is not in the ZDF.

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