General German University Sports Association

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General German University Sports Association
Founded April 2, 1948
Place of foundation Bayrischzell
Chairman Jörg Förster
Members 198 universities
Association headquarters The castle
Homepage www.adh.de

The General German University Sports Association (adh) is the umbrella organization for university sports in Germany founded in 1948 . It has around 196 member universities; the association thus represents around 2.4 million university members who do sports. Students and employees of all German universities can take part in the sports competitions organized by the adh (German University Championships, German University Cup, adh-Open, adh-Trophy). The association nominates the athletes who take part in the student world championships and the Universiade . In addition, public relations and lobbying work for university sports as well as the implementation of educational seminars are among the tasks of the adh. The adh is a member of the Fédération Internationale du Sport Universitaire , the European University Sports Association and the German Olympic Sports Confederation .

history

Even before the Second World War there was an “office for physical exercise” within the framework of the German student body at that time, which originally campaigned for popular student sport and sent top athletes to the Academic World Games (forerunner of the Universiade), but also to enforce it during the Nazi era the compulsory military sport was instrumentalized. After the Second World War - and the Allies banned all Nazi organizations - the Arbeitsgemeinschaft deutscher Sportreferenten (adh) was founded on April 2, 1948 in Bayrischzell ( Bavaria ) , which until the 1960s also served as the “Sports Office of the Association of German Student Unions “(VDS) acted. Walther Tröger , who later became the NOK President , was initially in charge .

In the post-war years, the adh succeeded as the first German sports association to reconnect with international sports traffic. In the fall of 1949, German students started again for the first time in the first international summer sports week in Merano . In 1951 the adh became a member of the FISU , followed in 1953 with the “III. International Summer University Sports Week ”in Dortmund, the first international top-class sports event in the Federal Republic of Germany after the Second World War.

Development towards "mass sport for everyone"

The work of the adh in the 1950s and 1960s initially focused on the organization of national and international competitive sport. In the course of the 1968 student movement and the discussion about the meaning and purpose of sport, however, there was an increased turn to popular sport in the adh . Since the 1970s, university sports have no longer been aimed exclusively at students, but rather at all university members. This was also reflected in the committees of the adh, which since then have been occupied equally by students and full-time employees of the local university sports facilities.

At the same time, the adh successfully campaigned for professionalization through full-time sports professionals and for a legal anchoring of university sports. In 1976, university sport was laid down in the university framework law as a funding task for universities . In 2009 the German Bundestag declared university sport to be an indispensable part of the German sport and university landscape.

Structure of the adh

The association is formed by the association's committees , in which full-time representatives and students are represented equally. The office , based in the Hessian Dieburg implements the decisions of the bodies to and edited the daily and operational tasks.

General Assembly

The adh general assembly is the highest organ of the adh. It usually takes place once a year. Their tasks include, among other things, the establishment of guidelines for the entire activity of the adh, the regulation of competitive sport, statute matters and the handling of fundamental questions that do not fall within the competence of another body. The general assembly elects the board of directors, the advisory boards and the standing commissions. It confirms the members of the state council and relieves the board financially. It usually meets once a year. All full members of the association are entitled to vote.

The athlete and the university of the year are also honored at the plenary meetings. In recent years, successful athletes such as swimmer Sarah Köhler , Nordic combined athlete Tobias Simon , rowers Kathrin Thoma and Johannes Ursprung, gymnast Fabian Hambüchen , high jumper Ariane Friedrich , gymnast Kim Bui , rowers Julius Peschel and Mathias Arnold and judoka Ole Bischof have been part of the team the winners.

Board

The adh board consists of six elected members, whereby the parity of three student and three full-time members must be observed. He is elected by the general assembly and his term of office is two years. In addition to the Chairman of the Board of Management and the Chief Financial Officer, there are four other members of the Board of Management who are not assigned to any department. When assigning board positions, great importance is attached to the fact that women and men, representatives of large and small universities and different types of universities are represented on the board. Furthermore, the adh general secretary and the state council spokesman are members of the board without voting rights.

State Council

The state council consists of one full-time and one student representation per federal state. The representation is elected by the member universities of the respective countries and confirmed by the general assembly. Other members without voting rights are the elected members of the Board of Directors and the Secretary General. The respective representations of the federal states can only exercise their vote uniformly in the state council. The regional council elects a spokesman from among its members, who is a co-opted member of the board. The state council also sends a representative to the competition commission and the sports advisory board as well as to the education and development advisory board. The tasks of the state council include supporting the board of directors, making decisions in state matters and representing the association in the states.

Sports Advisory Board

The sports advisory board is responsible for competitive sports in the adh and is composed of the discipline chiefs (DC), the active spokespersons (AS), the arbitration officers, the responsible board member, the sports director and a representative of the state council. The discipline chiefs are appointed by the board for a two-year term on the basis of a tendering process. The active speakers are elected by the participants at the German University Championships. The members of the sports council represent the competitive sports interests of the adh and help shape the development of the adh competitive sport. The sports advisory board advises the board of directors and the members of the general assembly on related issues and monitors the competition. In addition, the members of the sports advisory board are in close contact with the professional associations. They coordinate the common interests and cooperation, especially in the case of German university championships and international measures. The sports advisory board sends an elected spokesman, another representative and an active representative to the competition committee.

Education and Development Advisory Board

The Education and Development Advisory Board consists of the responsible members of the Board of Directors, the adh youth and education officer, a representative of the state council and six members elected by the general assembly. Experts can be called in temporarily and on a topic-specific basis. The members of the Advisory Board participate in the strategic development in the fields of education and qualification, the promotion of equal opportunities and commitment as well as popular and recreational sports. To this end, they develop educational offers, among other things, and are involved in the areas of knowledge management, promoting commitment and personnel development. Lobbying, especially at the state level, rounds off the range of tasks of the advisory board. The Education and Development Advisory Board elects a spokesperson and a deputy from among its members.

Competition committee

Members of the competition commission are the responsible member of the board of directors, the spokesman for the sports council as well as another representative, the adh sports director, a representative of the active players and the state council and two members elected by the general assembly. The competition committee advises the board of directors and develops recommendations for action in all questions relating to the ongoing competition. Among other things, it evaluates the annual reports of the discipline chiefs, derives recommendations and checks compliance with the guidelines for adh competitive sports. The competition commission elects a spokesperson and a deputy from among its members.

Auditing

The general assembly elects two auditors and two substitutes for the duration of one legislative period. They check the current housekeeping for its correctness, the annual financial statements as well as random checks the entire finance, accounting and cash system of the association. They submit a written report on this to the General Assembly, which is a prerequisite for the discharge of the Board of Directors.

Association jurisdiction

All legal disputes in the context of competition traffic, insofar as it was dealt with in accordance with the competition regulations, fall under the jurisdiction of the legal bodies of the association. These include, in the first instance, the arbitrators or the arbitral tribunals, in the second instance the court of arbitration and in the third instance the association court. The judicial bodies are appointed by the board for a period of two years.

Competitions

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The Allgemeine Deutsche Hochschulsportverband organizes the national student competitions. The board awards the competition events to the organizing universities. They carry out the measure on site. At the national level, the adh has installed four competition formats.

German university championship

The German University Championship (DHM) is the national tournament of German university sports in the respective sport. Students and university members from all German universities are entitled to start. There are no access restrictions with a DHM. The fields of participation are peppered with athletes from top and popular sports. Members of the German national student team compete at the German university championships with students who often only got to know the respective sport at university . The DHM combines the competition with the student exchange and further communication . This creates a special student atmosphere.

In the summer semester 2018 26 German university championships were held. A German university championship can only take place in sports that have been included in the adh sports canon. The application for membership is submitted to the general assembly , the highest body of the adh, for voting . If this application is accepted , a German university championship in this sport can then be organized. Different disciplines are combined in the respective sports. With the inclusion of the sport of " cycling ", for example, German university championships in racing bikes , mountain bikes and track bikes became possible.

The following sports are represented in the adh sports canon:

University swimming championship 2007 in the Hamburg Alster swimming pool

As a rule, the DHM of a sport is carried out annually. The winners will be awarded the traditional adh winner's pin.

Preliminary rounds for the German University Championship take place in team sports. The preliminary round groups are usually divided into regions. The winners of the preliminary or intermediate rounds qualify for the final round.

German University Cup

The German University Cup (DHP) is a tournament format for teams from small universities (less than 10,000 students). The German University Cup is played in the sports of basketball , handball , soccer and volleyball . In the past few years, mixed formats have become established in which women and men play in a team for the respective title. There are preliminary rounds for the DHP only in football.

The winning teams of DHP obtained at the award ceremony the obligatory adh winner pins. Despite the separate competition events for small universities, the teams of these may also take part in the German University Championship.

adh-Open

The adh-Open are university championships organized by the General German University Sports Association (ADH), which have not yet made it into the official sports canon of the adh, but have become the focus of the adh through supraregional national competitions. In order to be included in the sports canon of the adh, the sport must meet certain criteria. Only when two different universities have hosted the adh-open in two consecutive years can the sport be officially organized by the adh as a German university championship.

In the meantime, the adh-Open has established itself as a second pillar alongside the German University Championships in national competitive sport between the universities. The main reason is the particularly good infrastructure of some universities in the respective sports, which are predestined to host the adh-Open there. In some sports, such as B. Softball , the Open are also considered a qualifying tournament for the German championships.

The following sports are currently held as adh-open: 3 × 3 basketball, beach soccer, bouldering, flag football, floorball, rugby, water polo and surfing.

adh trophy

Since the summer semester of 2008, the adh has established the adh-Trophy competition format in its competition program. The adh-Trophy is the competition event for trend and fun sports that are offered at the respective universities. During the competitions, the main focus is on having fun and exchanging ideas among the participants. As a rule, the ideas for the implementation of an adh trophy in a fun or trend sport come from university sports facilities or student training groups.

National competitions have already taken place in the sports of sailing , underwater rugby and headis.

International competitive sport

The General German University Sports Association supports the hosting of competitions of the European and international university sports association. German students take part in the European Student Championships (EUC) and the European Student Games (EUSA Games) for their universities . The qualification for the continental measures is the German University Championship. The adh supports the universities organisationally in feeding the measures.

The adh sends national student teams to measures taken by the world association FISU. These are nominated by the board of the General German University Sports Association. To the competitions of FISU are the World Championships of students - ger .: World University Championship (WUC) - and the Universiade. The student world championships take place in the even years in the individual sports, Universiade in the odd years. These are organized by the FISU, organized by a national university sports association. The adh sends the individual teams to the events and supports the teams in organizing the measures. As a rule, an adh association representative takes on the leadership of the delegation. The last world championships for students in Germany took place in Munich in 2018. Together with the Technical University of Munich, the student world championship beach volleyball took place in the Olympic Park in July.

Universiade

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The summer and winter Universiades are organized by the FISU and organized by a national university sports association. The first Summer Universiade took place in 1959 in Turin, Italy. The Winter Universiade celebrated its premiere in 1960 in Chamonix, France . The Student World Games, as the Universiades are also called, have taken place every two years since 1981. In the past few decades, the Summer Universiade has developed into the largest multisport event after the Summer Olympics .

The General German University Sports Association is responsible for feeding the measure and nominating the active participants. The Universiade has established itself as a target competition in the promotion of young talent in many sports. Young athletes in particular are appointed to the German national student team. The adh and the participating professional associations are thus pursuing the targeted promotion of German talent in the context of a multisport event that is reminiscent of the Olympic Games .

In 1991, athletes from reunited Germany competed in a team for the first time in Sapporo . One year before the Olympic Games of Albertville and Barcelona presented the German delegation thus the Winter Universiade, the first all-German team after the reunification in a multisport event represents.

Summer Universiade

Since the beginning of the Summer Universiade in 1959, national German teams have been sent to the student world games by the General German University Sports Association. After the end of the Cold War , the Summer Universiade developed into the second largest multisport event in the world. More and more nations sent athletes to the Universiades. The largest German delegation to date was nominated by the Allgemeine Deutsche Hochschulsportverband in 1993. 158 active participants and 62 members of the organization team traveled to the Summer Universiade in Buffalo . In 1993, 220 people represented the German colors at the Universiade. The General German University Sports Association experienced the most successful Summer Universiade in 2007. In the Thai capital Bangkok , the German national student team won eleven gold, five silver and nine bronze medals.

The biggest Summer Universiade to date took place in 2013 in Kazan , Russia . 11,800 active participants from 159 nations took part in the student world games in the city on the Volga . The General German University Association sent a delegation of 218 people to Russia . The members of the German national student team competed in 18 out of 27 possible sports. The athletes won four gold, six silver and nine bronze medals. With Fabian Hambüchen , Jan-Philip Glania , Jan Felix Knobel , Kim Bui , Andreas Waschburger , Philip Wende and Romy Tarangul , seven participants in the 2012 Olympic Games were members of the German national student team.

The German students were also successful at the 2017 Summer Universiade in Taipei. The adh sent a delegation of 187 to Asia. With seven gold medals as well as six silver and eleven bronze medals, the German student national team finished twelfth in the medal table at the end of the competitions.

Winter Universiade

Six sports are part of the regular program of the competitions at the Winter Universiade. Due to the lower number of decisions, the German national student team at Winter Universiaden is also smaller than at the competitions in summer. In 2017, the adh sent 28 German athletes to the Winter Universiade. The competitions of the 28th Winter Universiade ended with three medals.

The largest winter universiade in history to date took place in 2013 in Trentino, Italy. From 11 to 21 December 2013, 1,698 participants from 50 nations competed in various sports for the Universiade medals. The German national student team won a silver medal in 2013 from Johannes Wasel in Nordic Combined and once bronze from Selina Jörg in the snowboard parallel giant slalom. In 2019 the Winter Universiade will take place in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia. Preparations are currently underway and coordination between the adh and the professional associations is ongoing.

Project "Partner University of Top Sports"

In 1999, the adh initiated the “Partner University of Top Sports” project in order to offer students top German athletes the opportunity to better combine a sporting career and studies. With its help, around 1,200 senior athletes are now studying at over 100 partner universities, who have to undergo regular evaluations to ensure that the project's goals are achieved. The project is supported by several partner organizations: German Olympic Sports Confederation , German Student Union , German Sporthilfe Foundation , University Rectors ' Conference , Olympic training centers and professional associations . In contrast to studying e.g. B. At American colleges and universities, where everyone who starts for the university can get discounts, the benefits according to § 2 are only for Germans, "which have been proposed by the relevant national professional association or Olympic training center". However, while American universities grant domestic and foreign students such optimal opportunities, which corresponds to the meaning of a university, § 2 in particular discriminates against non-German studying top athletes. This not only affects the foreign students, but also makes it more difficult to form good international training groups at German universities, so that significantly more German top athletes train and study in the USA than foreign ones at German universities.

Education in the adh

In addition to the competition, the adh also organizes an educational program for its members. It consists of network meetings and seminars. During implementation, the adh works with internal and external speakers, including the DOSB leadership academy .

adh project tandem mentoring

Since 2003, the adh has carried out the nationally and internationally awarded adh project tandem mentoring for personnel development . It promotes and qualifies young women in the field of university sports. The aim is to increase the proportion of female managers in sport.

The goals of the project are:

  • Initiate networks between students, women and men in professional life
  • Bringing female students into contact with the world of work
  • prepare practically for professional requirements and management positions
  • motivate them to plan their own professional career
  • as well as providing information for planning and efficient career entry

For this purpose, the participants form a tandem with experienced mentors. Over the course of a year, the duos exchange views on issues relating to professional careers. The mentees, as the participants are called, receive important tips from their mentor. The mentors hold leading positions in sport or other social institutions and thus give the young women an impressive insight into their daily work.

Sports students, sports instructors and young employees of university sports facilities who are interested in entering or advancing in the field of (university) sports are the target group of the measure. Most recently, the seventh round of the adh project tandem mentoring started with the meeting of the mentees in July 2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Areas of work and tasks of the adh. General German University Sports Association, accessed on August 11, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Carsten Milde: Stations of a Journey - a homage to 50 years of the General German University Sports Association, Chapter: University Sports after 1945, Darmstadt, 1998, p. 40.
  4. ↑ Richard Vorhammer: Stations of a Journey - a tribute to 50 years of the General German University Sports Association Chapter: Scenes from the early days of adh, Darmstadt, 1998, p. 47.
  5. ^ Website of the Fédération International du Sport Universitaire (accessed on July 29, 2015).
  6. ↑ a b FISU History. Retrieved July 29, 2015 .
  7. ^ Günter Eglin: Stations of a journey - a homage to 50 years of the General German University Sports Association Chapter: The early decades of the ADH, Darmstadt, 1998, p. 58.
  8. ^ Statutes of the General German University Sports Association, Article 3, Paragraph 4, Dieburg, 2015.
  9. ↑ University Framework Act, Paragraph 2, Paragraph 4.
  10. ^ German Bundestag: Shorthand report of the 230th session of the German Bundestag, Berlin, July 2, 2009.
  11. ^ Statutes of the General German University Sports Association, Article 9, Paragraph 1.
  12. ^ Statutes of the General German University Sports Association, Article 12.
  13. ^ Statutes of the General German University Sports Association, Article 10.
  14. ↑ Julius Peschel and Mathias Arnold are adh athletes of the year 2012. Accessed on December 31, 2015 .
  15. ^ Hall of Fame and Hall of History. Retrieved August 30, 2018 .
  16. ^ Statutes of the General German University Sports Association, Article 15. [1]
  17. ^ Statutes of the General German University Sports Association, Article 16 .
  18. ^ Sports advisory board «Committees« Organization «About us / adh - General German University Sports Association. Retrieved August 30, 2018 .
  19. ^ Sports advisory board «Committees« Organization «About us / adh - General German University Sports Association. Retrieved August 30, 2018 .
  20. ^ Advisory Board Education & Development «Committees« Organization «About us / adh - General German University Sports Association. Archived from the original on January 30, 2019 ; accessed on August 30, 2018 .
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  22. ↑ Audit of the «Committees« Organization «About us / adh - General German University Sports Association. Retrieved August 30, 2018 .
  23. ^ Association jurisdiction «Committees« Organization «About us / adh - General German University Sports Association. Retrieved August 30, 2018 .
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  25. ↑ Competition rules (WO) of the General German University Sports Association, Paragraphs 2–8.
  26. ↑ Competition regulations of the General German University Sports Association, Paragraph 7.
  27. ↑ General German University Sports Association : Competition program 2018. [2]
  28. ↑ Competition regulations of the General German University Sports Association, Paragraph 3.
  29. ↑ a b Competition rules of the General German University Sports Association, Paragraph 28, Paragraph 1.
  30. ↑ Competition rules of the General German University Sports Association, Paragraph 7, Paragraph 5.
  31. ↑ adh-Open article on adh.de, accessed on August 30, 2018.
  32. ↑ DMQ concept: Game rules for the implementation of the open German Slowpitch Championships (Mixed) 2011 ( Memento from February 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Article on slowpitch.de, accessed on February 3, 2012.
  33. ↑ adh-Open "National" competition / adh - General German University Sports Association. Retrieved August 30, 2018 .
  34. ↑ Competition rules of the General German University Sports Association, Paragraph 2, Paragraph 3.
  35. ^ World University Championships. Retrieved July 29, 2015 .
  36. ↑ International «Competition / adh - General German University Sports Association. Retrieved August 30, 2018 .
  37. ↑ Summer Universiade. Retrieved July 29, 2015 .
  38. ↑ Dorothea Scheel: Stations of a journey - a homage to 50 years of the General German University Sports Association Chapter: On the way to the German-German Association in University Sports, Darmstadt, 1998, p. 101.
  39. ^ Universiade statistics 1949 to the present day. Retrieved July 29, 2015 .
  40. ↑ Highlight of top student sport: The 2007 Summer Universiade. Accessed on July 29, 2015 .
  41. ↑ Summer Universiade in Kazan. Retrieved July 29, 2015 .
  42. ↑ Our athletes. Retrieved July 29, 2015 .
  43. ↑ Website of the Gwangju Summer Universiade Organizing Committee ( Memento of March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on July 29, 2015)
  44. ↑ Website of the Fédération International du Sport Universitaire (accessed on July 29, 2015)
  45. ↑ Nomination criteria for the Winter Universiade 2019. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on August 30, 2018 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.adh.de
  46. ↑ General German University Sports Association : Annual Report 1999, Dieburg, 2000, pp. 3-4.
  47. ↑ An overview of partner universities. Retrieved August 30, 2018 .
  48. ↑ Partner university for top-class sport. Retrieved September 1, 2015 .
  49. ^ Arnd Krüger : U23. Competitive sport 44 (2014) 1, 34–36.
  50. ↑ Benjamin Bendrich: Top-level student sport between resignation, myth and departure: a study on dual careers in Germany and the USA. Göttingen: Optimus, 2015. ISBN 3-86376-164-2 .
  51. ↑ General German University Sports Association : Annual Report 2017, Dieburg, March 2018, p. 32 .
  52. ↑ General German University Sports Association wins 2nd place in the DOSB association competition. Retrieved July 29, 2015 .
  53. ^ 1st FISU Women's Committee Award - 2009. Retrieved July 29, 2015 .
  54. ↑ a b adh project tandem mentoring. Retrieved July 29, 2015 .
  55. ^ Tandem mentoring «Projects / adh - General German University Sports Association. Retrieved August 30, 2018 .