Bobsleigh and sledge association for Germany

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Bobsleigh and sledge association for Germany
Logo of the bobsleigh and sledge association for Germany
Founded December 26, 1911
Place of foundation Hanover
president Andreas Trautvetter
societies 78
Members 7.164
Association headquarters Berchtesgaden
Homepage www.bsd-portal.de

The Bobsleigh and Luge Federation for Germany e. V. (BSD), with its headquarters and office in Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, has around 80 associations with over 7,000 members in nine regional associations.

Five clubs from Friedrichroda , Ilmenau , Oberhof , Schierke and Winterberg were the godfathers on November 5, 1911 when the German Bobsleigh Association (DBV) was founded in Frankfurt / Main. Also five clubs, this time from Bad Sachsa , Dresden , Hanover , Hildesheim and Ilmenau, accompanied the establishment of the German Luge Federation (DRB) only seven weeks later on December 26, 1911 in Hanover .

The effects of the Second World War brought a new organization of sport in divided Germany. In the young Federal Republic of Germany, bobsleigh , tobogganing and skeleton were again combined in Frankfurt / Main on October 29, 1949 to form the German Bobsleigh and Toboggan Association (DBSV). In the GDR , the bobsleigh and sled sport section was founded in Oberhof in 1953, then the German sledge and bobsleigh association in East Berlin in 1957 (DSBV - Presidents: 1953–1962 Heinz Rustemeier, 1962–1976 Erhard Feuereiss, 1976–1982 Hans Friedrich, 1982–1990 Martin Kilian , 1990 Karl-Heinz Anschütz).

In the course of German reunification , the DSBV of the GDR merged with the DBSV in 1990. The last key date in more than nine decades of nationally organized bobsleigh, luge and skeleton sport was June 24, 2000, when the DBSV gave itself the new name Bobsleigh and Sled Association for Germany (BSD) at its annual general meeting in Ilsenburg / Harz .

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Since 1911, 17 presidents have directed the fortunes of German archery. From 1911 to 1945 the Rentsch-Seyd (1911–1912 / BC Schierke), Wolf von Werder (1912–1921 / BC Friedrichroda), Otto Griebel (1921–1925 / BC Oberhof / BC Taunus), Rettig (1925–1929 / MSC Munich), Walter Dicke (1929–1930 / Sauerland BC), Erwin Hachmann (1930–1936 / Berliner SC), Karl Ritter von Halt (1936–1945 / Munich). From 1949 (GDR see above) DBSV presidents were: Otto Griebel (1949–1952 / BC Taunus Frankfurt), Hanns Kilian (1952–1968 / SC Rießersee), Richard Hartmann (1968–1984 / WSV Königssee) and from 1984 to 2004 ( meanwhile BSD) Klaus Kotter from Eggenfelden.

On May 26, 2004, the 50th General Assembly of the BSD elected the Thuringian Interior Minister Andreas Trautvetter as Kotter's successor, who was honorary president of the association until his death in 2010. The current vice-presidents are Winfried Stork and Hans-Wolf von Schleinitz. Other members of the executive committee are Georg Grabner , Jörg Steinle, Wolfgang Landt, Jochen Buck and Stefanie Rudolph (as youth warden).

The former head coach Thomas Schwab is responsible as general secretary and sports director for top-class sport. He also acts as the association's chairman. He is supported by André Sander (Board Member for Competitive Sport Development) and Alexander Resch (Board Member for Competitive Sport Management and coordinator of athlete management). Head coach in the bobsleigh area is René Spies with the coaches Gerd Leopold , Sven Rühr , Matthias Höpfner , Christoph Heyder , Sepp Dostthaler and Stephan Bosch . Christian Baude is the head coach for the skeleton area . David Lingmann is at his side . In the luge area, Norbert Loch is the head coach , assisted by the coaches Torsten Görlitzer , Patric Leitner , Jan Eichhorn and Georg Hackl .

The BSD is organized in nine regional associations (Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Brandenburg, Hesse, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony, Thuringia).

Sochi Winter Olympics

At the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, the German bobsleigh team did very poorly, Thomas Florschütz blamed the bobsleighs developed for € 900,000 in tax money at the Institute for Research and Development of Sports Equipment . BMW was also involved in the development of the German and US bobsleds. Steven Holcomb won bronze in two and four.

The BSD suspended Manuel Machata after the games . Machata purchased runners from Switzerland for € 29,000, but was unable to qualify for the games. At the World Cup in Winterberg, Machata drove as a spurb bob faster than the German Sochi participants. He made the runners available to the later Olympic champion Alexander Jurjewitsch Zubkov . Francesco Friedrich also used such Swiss runners on the second day; but this did not bring the hoped-for success.

According to a report in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , the Swiss company Machata had made the runners available on the condition that "if you don't qualify with our runners, we will get them back so that someone else can drive them in Sochi".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 2018 inventory (PDF) German Olympic Sports Confederation, accessed on March 5, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b No “Olympic-worthy” sled , Christoph Becker, Krasnaja Poljana, FAZ, February 17, 2014
  3. ^ Russian gold with German runners , FAZ, February 14, 2014
  4. ↑ Ban and fine for Machata , FAZ, March 3, 2014
  5. ↑ sueddeutsche.de March 6, 2014: Legal understanding as in the Middle Ages - Commentary by René Hofmann

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