There were tears when the election results were announced – from the new President Fabian Drescher, 42, who has so far only acted on an interim basis, and from his deputy Anne Noske, 40. As rational beings, they probably expected that they would win; The fact that they achieved results similar to those previously seen at Bulgarian Communist Party conferences still touched them. Hertha BSC is no longer a divided club, as was still the case in mid-2022 when Kay Bernstein, who died suddenly in January at the age of 43, took over as chairman.