Personal Life
Kahn was born in Karlsruhe. He is of Latvian descent; he had a Latvian grandmother and his father was born in Liepāja, where he remains well-known. He has an older brother named Axel, who played in the second division for the Karlsruher. In 2010, Kahn ended his ten-year marriage with his wife Simone, with whom he has had two children. In February 2011 his girlfriend Svenja gave birth to a son.
In 2009, he was offered the position of manager for the FC Schalke 04, which he turned down. Two years thereafter, in April 2011, a German court fined Kahn €125,000 ($182,223) for tax evasion after failing to declare more than €6,000 of luxury clothing he bought on a trip to Dubai.
He supports the Munich street-football league Bunt kickt gut, which is considered a pioneer project of organized street-football and a Germany and Europa-wide model of intercultural understanding, education values and prevention; the Sepp-Herberger foundation, which promotes football in schools, clubs, and prisons; and the Justin Rockola Association, whose goal is the protection of young people against violence, alcohol and drugs.
He received his coaching license in 2010. After having studied business at the University of Hagen and Privatuniversität Schloss Seeburg Kahn holds a Master of Business Administration degree.
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