Florian Homm - The speculator: at the height of Dortmund's financial crisis in the summer of 2004, a flamboyant helper suddenly appeared - fund manager Florian Homm. The Hessian, an MBA graduate from Harvard, had become notorious during the era of Germany's Neuer Markt for making money as a kind of undertaker of bankrupt companies. In 2004 he entered at BVB and helped save the club with a capital increase of 20 million euros.\n\nBut Homm also knew that whoever had the money had the power, and he wanted that power in Dortmund.
He publicly undermined coach Bert van Marwijk and expanded his influence until the old leadership around Niebaum was pushed out. Later, in his autobiography, Homm wrote that he had originally wanted to make money with BVB and sell the club to two Russian oligarchs, but only realized after entering how bad the situation really was and decided to rescue it because the losses would otherwise be unbearable.\n\nIn that sense, he did indeed help save Dortmund's license in 2005. He later sold all his shares. Fans, however, had had enough of the horse-trading and staged the famous Not for Sale march before a home game against Bochum.
By 2007 Homm had disappeared from view amid the financial crisis. He later resurfaced in Venezuela, was seen wounded, and in 2013 was arrested in Florence's Uffizi Gallery. Such was the end of a financial juggler who saved BVB and used them at the same time.