DER SPIEGEL summed up the special Eintracht atmosphere under Ohms as follows: ‘Under Ohms, Frankfurt’s moneyed nobility formed a fatal alliance with the nightlife nobility.’ It was an open secret around the club that parties involving people from the red-light scene were held in Ohms’ house even when he was away – while valuable club documents were being stolen from his safe. At some point in the early 1990s his professional decline began. Frankfurt’s major banks withdrew business from him one after another, he had to sell his company, and in 2010 he received a one-year suspended sentence for making false sworn declarations.
Just one among countless scandals. Add in interest-free loans to players, negotiations with unlicensed player agents, dubious receipts for bribe payments and commission payments to ‘unknown persons.’ The full package.