German Olympic Sports Confederation

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German Olympic Sports Confederation
Logo of the German Olympic Sports Confederation since 2014.svg
Founded May 20, 2006 (1895 as NOK)
Place of foundation Frankfurt am Main
president Alfons Hörmann
societies 88,348
Members 27,566,608 (memberships)
Association headquarters Otto-Fleck-Schneise 12
60528 Frankfurt am Main
Homepage dosb.de
Entrance to the DOSB
Alfons Hörmann, President of the DOSB
Veronika Rücker, CEO

The German Olympic Sports Confederation ( DOSB ) is an umbrella organization for German sport and was created on May 20, 2006 through the merger of the German Sports Confederation and the National Olympic Committee for Germany . The DOSB represents over 27 million memberships from around 89,000 sports clubs. Member organizations of the DOSB are 16 regional sports federations , 65 central associations and 20 sports associations with special tasks. The DOSB is a registered association based in Frankfurt am Main . After moving into temporary accommodation in Neu-Isenburg in June 2014 , the DOSB returned to its newly built "House of German Sports" in the Sachsenhausen-Süd district of Frankfurt in May 2016. The athletes have been performing under the Team Germany brand since the 2018 Olympic Games .

Bodies

Bureau

The first president of the DOSB was Thomas Bach . He resigned on September 16, 2013 after his election as IOC President. Until the new election, Hans-Peter Krämer took over the chairmanship as acting DOSB president.

Alfons Hörmann has been President of the DOSB since December 2013 . Other members of the DOSB Presidium: Uschi Schmitz (Vice President Competitive Sports), Kaweh Niroomand (Vice President Finance), Andreas Silbersack (Vice President Popular Sports and Sport Development), Gudrun Doll-Tepper (Vice President Education and Olympic Education), Petra Tzschoppe (Vice President -President Women and Equal Opportunities), Jan Holze (Chairman of the German Sports Youth ), Jonathan Koch (athlete representative), Britta Heidemann (IOC member) and, with dormant membership, Thomas Bach (IOC President).

Board

The five-person full-time executive board is responsible for the operational business and is supervised by the honorary executive committee.

Ethics Committee

The independent ethics committee, founded in 2018, has an essential role in advising the DOSB presidium and board of directors as well as in the neutral investigation of indications or indications of violations of the good governance regulations. It is responsible for investigating indications of violations by members of the Presidium, the Board of Directors, the Advisory Councils and Commission, the personal members, the delegation members of teams sent by the DOSB to international multi-sport events as well as all full-time employees of the DOSB office . The chairman is Thomas de Maizière , Hansjörg Geiger and Biathlon Olympic champion Kati Wilhelm were elected as members ; The substitute member is the hammer throw world champion Betty Heidler .

Patron

The current head of state of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier is the patron of the DOSB .

Founding history

Logo of the DOSB until 2014
Historical development of German sports umbrella organizations and National Olympic Committees

The DOSB was created through the merger of the financially troubled German Sports Confederation (DSB) and the National Olympic Committee for Germany (NOK) . The aim of the merger was the uniform representation of sport and the better assertion of the interests of the member associations and clubs.

The statutes of the DOSB were adopted by the main bodies of the NOK and the DSB in a joint meeting on December 10, 2005 in Cologne . During the meeting, the previous associations decided to dissolve and to merge by founding the DOSB.

In order to fill the management positions, a five-person selection committee was formed, which includes the association presidents Theo Zwanziger ( German Football Association ), Clemens Prokop ( German Athletics Association ), Klaus Schormann ( German Association for Modern Pentathlon ) and Wolfgang Rittmann ( German Billiard Union ) and as a representative of the state sports associations Ekkehard Wienholtz ( State Sports Association Schleswig-Holstein ). In March 2006 the commission voted unanimously in favor of Thomas Bach as DOSB president. The former North Rhine-Westphalian Minister for Urban Development and Housing, Culture and Sport Michael Vesper ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ) received a five-year contract as General Director of the DOSB in September 2006.

financing

The German Olympic Sports Confederation is financed from membership fees, lottery income and marketing licenses as well as federal grants, especially for projects in the field of competitive sports; Integration, inclusion and equal opportunities in or through sport; Sport and health; Sport of the generations as well as for international sport projects that unite people.

Advocacy

“The German Olympic Sports Confederation represents the interests of its member associations vis-à-vis the federal, state and local governments and in all socio-political and cultural areas. This includes cooperation with socio-political institutions such as churches, parties, welfare associations, cultural institutions, trade unions and business organizations. "

The DOSB or its predecessor DSB has been publishing the magazine " Leistungssport " since 1971 , which is one of the leading training- science magazines in the world, but is clearly reluctant to make statements on sports policy. The GDR magazine Theory and Practice of Competitive Sports was discontinued after the fall of the Wall. Both journals are digitized free of charge at the Institute for Applied Training Science .

The DOSB sees itself as the legal successor to the National Olympic Committee (NOK) of the GDR and supports the GDR doping victims. After the fall of the Wall, the GDR-NOK was absorbed with its remaining assets of around five million marks in the NOK of the Federal Republic.

The DOSB is critical or even negative about the topic of e-sports .

Awards and honors

Since 2008 the association has been awarding the Medal of Honor in German Sports (also known as the DOSB Medal of Honor ), designed by Markus Lüpertz .

Award winners

In addition, there are other prizes and honors: the DOSB Ethics Prize , the DOSB Badge of Honor , the Pro Honorary Office Prize , the DOSB Science Prize , the DOSB Trainer of the Year Prize , the University of Top Sports Award, the Elite School award des sports , elite sports students , the equality award , the German school sports award , the dsj future award , the IOC trophy , the Federal President's sports plaque and the fair play award .

In cooperation with Commerzbank , the DOSB has been awarding the Green Ribbon for exemplary promotion of talent in the club since 1986 , together with the cooperative banks the big star of sport .

Member associations

16 regional sports federations

65 umbrella organizations

(39 Olympic ( Olympic Rings Icon.svg) and 26 non-Olympic, as of April 2018)

20 associations with special tasks

Individual members

Memberships and international involvement with third parties

The DOSB participates in the following bodies:

Olympic applications

Munich 2018 and 2022

In 2009, the DOSB applied with Munich for the 2018 Winter Olympics . The competitions should take place next to Munich in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and on the artificial ice rink at Königssee . The members of the IOC awarded the games to Pyeongchang in South Korea on July 6, 2011 . A renewed application for the Olympic Winter Games 2022 did not take place after all four referendums on November 10, 2013 in the participating cities and municipalities voted against it.

Hamburg 2024

Vote on Hamburg's application on March 21, 2015 in Frankfurt

The DOSB competed with Hamburg at the International Olympic Committee to host the Summer Olympics in 2024 and the Paralympic Summer Games in 2024 and possibly for the Summer Games in 2028. This decision was by the member organizations of the DOSB at the extraordinary general meeting on 21 March 2015 the Frankfurter Paulskirche taken. On November 29, 2015, the population of Hamburg rejected the application in a referendum , whereupon the application was withdrawn.

Rhine-Ruhr 2032

Since 2016, a private-sector initiative has been campaigning for Germany to apply as a venue for the 2032 Summer Olympics in the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region in North Rhine-Westphalia. Berlin was also interested in hosting the 2032 Summer Games. The DOSB decided to start the application process with the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region in February 2020.

Campaign "Movement Against Cancer"

In 2020, the DOSB and the German Cancer Aid Foundation strengthened their cooperation with other action partners such as the German Sport University Cologne (DSHS) as part of the “Movement against Cancer” initiative . In the future, topics such as trainer qualification and the expansion of health sports offers in the clubs will also be on the agenda. DOSB and Krebshilfe had already started the nationwide prevention campaign “Movement Against Cancer” in 2014 with a nationwide poster campaign and events in numerous sports clubs. The Olympic champion Britta Heidemann , soccer world champion Wolfgang Overath , television presenter Shary Reeves and other sponsors were added as honorary ambassadors from top-class sport . With regard to increased cooperation, the Krebshilfe board chairman Gerd Nettekoven emphasized : “Sport and exercise as part of a healthy lifestyle can significantly reduce the risk of developing cancer.” DOSB board member Karin Fehres said: “We don't just want people to see the positive effects inform about sport and exercise, but also further expand the health-promoting offers in sport Germany. ”At the same time, in cooperation with DOSB, Krebshilfe and the German Disabled Sports Association (DBS), for example, the topic of qualifying rehabilitation sports instructors is to be taken up. Sports activity can also play an important role in therapy and aftercare.

Attitude to e-sports

The DOSB's position on the subject of e-sports is critical or even negative. If the association had previously completely rejected electronic sport, the DOSB has been dividing the competition using video games since 2018 on the one hand into the competition in electronic sport simulations, which is supported and promoted, and on the other hand into eGaming, whereby eGaming includes all other genres. eGaming is not supported by the DOSB, the term eGaming only exists in Germany. All other nations see esports as a whole as a uniform phenomenon consisting of different genres. The DOSB's position on the subject of e-sports has been criticized many times by experts and scientists. The DOSB also rejects e-sports as a sport because the degree of physicality is too low. Critics counter that on the one hand this is an inadmissible narrowing of certain defining features of the term sport, on the other hand, studies by the Sport University Cologne show, among other things, that e-sport is also to be considered a sport in terms of physicality.

Further services and facilities of the DOSB

See also

literature

  • Detlef Kuhlmann: Cross passes between sport and sport science. Comments from the DOSB press . Arete Verlag, Hildesheim 2014. ISBN 978-3-942468-38-1 .

Web links

Commons : Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Inventory survey 2019 (PDF) German Olympic Sports Confederation, accessed on January 21, 2020 .
  2. ^ German Olympic Sports Confederation - member organization (dosb.de, accessed on May 25, 2016)
  3. ^ Imprint of the DOSB.
  4. DOSB is rebuilding parts of its headquarters and renovating extensively. Temporary move to Neu-Isenburg - return planned for 2016. (No longer available online.) In: DOSB Newsletter 34/2014. DOSB , May 27, 2014, archived from the original on December 5, 2014 ; accessed on December 30, 2014 .
  5. ^ DOSB again in the Otto-Fleck-Schneise. In: DOSB-Homepage Contact / Directions. DOSB , accessed on April 7, 2017 .
  6. ^ DOSB: The German Olympic Sports Confederation: Olympic team becomes "Team Germany". Retrieved February 2, 2018 .
  7. 154 athletes: This is "Team Germany" in Pyeongchang . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . ( mz-web.de [accessed on February 5, 2018]).
  8. Thomas Bach resigned as DOSB President - Hans-Peter Krämer takes over official duties until the new election. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on May 7, 2017 .
  9. ^ Biography of Alfons Hörmann on the DOSB website , accessed on March 18, 2015.
  10. ^ DOSB: The German Olympic Sports Confederation: Presidium. Retrieved February 6, 2020 .
  11. ^ DOSB: The German Olympic Sports Confederation: Board of Directors. Retrieved February 6, 2020 .
  12. ^ The ethics committee of the DOSB. DOSB, accessed on January 31, 2019 .
  13. ^ Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund eV - Media and public relations: Sport is an "indispensable part of our democratic coexistence". Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier takes over the patronage of DOSB. May 5, 2017. Retrieved May 7, 2017 .
  14. Harsh criticism of the DOSB founding sport1.de May 17, 2016 .
  15. a b Bund.de: German Olympic Sports Federation (DOSB) .
  16. Arnd Krüger , Uta Engels: 30 years of 'competitive sport': aspiration and reality, in: competitive sport 31 (2001), 5, pp. 4-9.
  17. databases. Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on May 7, 2017 .
  18. WELT.de/sid: DOSB comes to an agreement with doping victims. In: welt.de . December 12, 2006, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  19. dpa: Server instead of playing field: Legal opinion of the DOSB: E-sport is not a sport . In: The time . August 27, 2019, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed September 24, 2019]).
  20. ^ A b DOSB: DOSB Medal of Honor . Online at dosb.de, accessed: June 29, 2018.
  21. What is the “Green Belt”? German Olympic Sports Confederation, accessed on January 23, 2014 .
  22. ^ DOSB: The German Olympic Sports Confederation: Member Organizations. Retrieved May 7, 2017 .
  23. ^ DOSB: The German Olympic Sports Confederation: Personal members. Retrieved December 13, 2018 .
  24. DOSB: “Realizing a new vision of the Olympics with Hamburg” , accessed on March 22, 2015
  25. ^ Resolution of the general meeting of the DOSB ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file)
  26. Olympic application: Hamburgers say no to the Olympics. In: zeit.de. Die Zeit , November 29, 2015, accessed on November 29, 2015 .
  27. RRC2032: Rhein Ruhr City # RRC2032. Retrieved June 5, 2020 .
  28. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: DOSB relies on Rhine-Ruhr 2032 - Berlin out of the running. Retrieved June 5, 2020 .
  29. https://www.krebshilfe.de/informieren/ueber-krebs/ihr-krebsris-senken/bewegung-und-krebs/bewegung-gegen-krebs/ueber-das-projekt/ , accessed on January 2, 2020
  30. https://www.krebshilfe.de/informieren/presse/pressemitteilungen/presse-information-bewegung-gegen-krebs/ accessed on May 7, 2018
  31. Press release of the German Cancer Aid from March 11, 2014. (No longer available online.) March 11, 2014, archived from the original on March 17, 2014 ; accessed on May 7, 2017 .
  32. DOSB: "Movement Against Cancer" - The DOSB and the German Cancer Aid are expanding their cooperation , accessed on May 8, 2018
  33. Artrevolver: Consoles. Retrieved November 28, 2019 .
  34. Artrevolver: DOSB to eGaming and eSports. Retrieved November 28, 2019 .
  35. design akademie berlin contradicts DOSB reports. In: gaming-grounds.de. August 28, 2019, accessed on November 28, 2019 (German).
  36. Artrevolver: DOSB publishes reports on "eSport". Retrieved November 28, 2019 .
  37. dpa: Discussion about recognition: Experts criticize the DOSB's e-sports legal opinion . In: The time . August 28, 2019, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed November 28, 2019]).
  38. eSport - DSHS. Retrieved November 28, 2019 .