Bernhard Schwank

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Bernhard Schwank (born October 11, 1960 ) is a German sports official .

Life

Schwank played football in the youth of SV Niederlahnstein and later, among others, at Wormatia Worms , Hassia Bingen and FSV Mainz 05 . The defender played 45 games for the Rhineland selection, with the German student selection he achieved third place at the student world championship in Mexico in  1982, three years later he also took part in the student world championship in Japan  .  Schwank studied history, sports science, politics and education in Mainz and Vienna .

In 1987 he took up the post of advisor for competitive sports and sports science at the State Sports Association of Rhineland-Palatinate , from the end of 1994 Schwank was responsible for sports matters and for the promotion of associations and clubs in the Hessian Ministry of the Interior , from 2002 as a government director and during this time also worked in Frankfurt's application for the 2012 Summer Olympics . On a voluntary basis, he held the post of chairman of the Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland Olympic base and headed the competitive sports committee of the Rhineland-Palatinate State Sports Federation . Schwank was Secretary General of the National Olympic Committee for Germany (NOK) from October 2003 to May 2006 and thus the last NOK General Secretary before the merger with the German Sports Confederation . During the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and the 2006 Winter Games in Turin , he headed the office of the German team in both cities. In the run-up to the 2006 soccer World Cup in Germany, he worked on its preparation.

From October 2006 Schwank was the director of the competitive sports division of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB). Until 2011 he was the managing director of the company that directed Munich's bid for the 2018 Winter Olympics. On October 1, 2011, Schwank returned to the DOSB as competitive sports director. In December 2014, Schwank joined the DOSB board as the person responsible for international affairs / Olympic applications. From May 2015, as Director of Sports and International Affairs, he was responsible for setting up an application company for Hamburg's application for the 2024 Summer Olympics and was then authorized signatory of Hamburg 2024 GmbH from July 2015 to March 2016, which was dissolved again in February 2018.

In May 2016 he left the DOSB and was employed as a ministerial councilor in the Ministry for Family, Children, Youth, Culture and Sport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia as head of the “Sport, Sports Facilities” department.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Player profile. In: wormatia.de. Retrieved February 7, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c Jörg Hahn: Portrait of Bernhard Schwank: Team player . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed February 7, 2019]).
  3. ↑ a b Bernhard Schwank is the new competitive sports director of the DOSB. In: DOSB. Retrieved February 7, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Günter Deister: Bernhard Schwank is our man for the Olympics. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. March 19, 2015, accessed February 7, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Rainer Grünberg: "We can do it". In: Hamburger Abendblatt. August 31, 2010, accessed February 7, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Schwank returns to the DOSB, Tippelt to Saxony. In: DOSB. Retrieved February 7, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Hill and Schwank are supposed to lead the Olympic bid. In: DOSB. Retrieved February 7, 2019 .
  8. ^ Application company Hamburg 2024 GmbH, Hamburg. In: northdata.de. Retrieved February 7, 2019 .
  9. ↑ WORLD: Bernhard Schwank leaves DOSB and switches to politics . March 4, 2016 ( welt.de [accessed February 7, 2019]).
  10. ↑ Committee Protocol APr 16/1312. Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on 31 May 2016 .
  11. ↑ Organization plan . Ministry for Family, Children, Youth, Culture and Sport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on February 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Schwank, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports official
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1960