Tremel: “If anyone thinks that we are at odds, then they are wrong”

This week I resigned from my positions at SV Guntamatic Ried. As a fan and sponsor, I wish the club all the best in the future.” Robert Tremel, a board member of SV Ried since 2019, published these two sentences on Facebook on December 21st at 5:31 p.m. This was the response of the Linz native, who is with his wife lives in Eitzing and runs the law firm “Lex3” in Ried with Karl Weinhäupl and Jürgen Edtbauer, to an article published on the same day in a daily newspaper Two days earlier, Vice President Tremel had formally declared his resignation to the board of directors. Tremel’s joy was understandably limited when the (internal) information was then apparently passed on to a medium.

It was only on Monday, December 23rd that the club itself issued a short press release. “Robert Tremel is resigning from his position as a board member of SV Ried with immediate effect for personal and professional reasons,” the broadcast said. “Robert Tremel has always supported our club in legal matters with a high level of professionalism. We thank him for his commitment,” SVR President Thomas Gahleitner was quoted as saying. Tremel said in this broadcast that it was a purely personal and professional decision that he made in the best interests of his future.

There is no question that the 49-year-old is fully committed to his career, not least because Tremel was appointed as the restructuring manager of KTM Components GmbH. However, the professional reasons probably played at most a minor role in the withdrawal from the board. There could have been different views on the board about how to run the club. When asked about this, Tremel said yesterday in an interview with the OÖNachrichten: “On a personal level there is no problem with anyone at all. If someone thinks that we are at odds, then they are wrong.”

A clear denial sounds different. He won’t say anything publicly about the club’s board’s internal affairs; “most of the decisions were unanimous,” said Tremel. His position does not necessarily need to be filled; Gahleitner also has a second vice president, Harald Jagereder. The board of SV Ried is elected every two years, with the next general meeting taking place in summer/autumn 2025.

The great effort made in the Corona year was rewarded

As a lawyer, the 49-year-old volunteered for the club during the 2020 “Corona promotion season” together with then-president Roland Daxl and fought vehemently for the continuation of the second division. The second highest division was on the verge of being canceled several times. Tremel didn’t give up. He was instrumental in ensuring that in May 2020, after many weeks of uncertainty, there was suddenly the green light for the season to continue.

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