Association of German professional boxers

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Association of German professional boxers
Logo bdb kl.jpg
sport Boxing
Founded 1949
Members 412 (as of April 24, 2010)
Association headquarters Kaltenkirchen
Homepage boxen-bdb.de

The Bund Deutscher Berufsboxer (BDB) is a registered association and forms the umbrella organization of professional boxers in Germany. The association was founded in 1949 by Ernst Dubois , who was also the first president. The BDB awards the title of German or international German champion in professional boxing.

history

The Association of German Pugilists was founded in 1919 to represent the interests of German professional boxers and existed until 1945. At the beginning of the National Socialist era , the association had around 500 members. Willy Klein was BDB chairman until 1971.

From 1971 to 1984 Theo Wittenbrink led the fate of the association as president before he resigned from office for health reasons. He was made honorary president. In the 1970s there was the newly founded Association of German Pugilists, a counter-association headed by Fritz Wiene , an opponent of Wittenbrink. In February 1978 the VDF obtained injunctions against the designation of fights as German championships and as world championship qualifications. The BDB then provided the duels with the names "German Championship of the Federation of German Professional Boxers eV" and "Unofficial World Cup elimination".

Klaus-Peter Kohl succeeded Wittenbrink in 1984 and remained chairman of the BDB until 1989.

From autumn 1996 the then BDP president Alois Teuber came under pressure after traces of a prohibited substance had been found in a doping test in August 1996 in boxer Graciano Rocchigiani . Teuber was accused of not having communicated the result to the boxer and of trying to cover up the positive doping results. Teuber emphasized that he had forwarded the matter to the boxing association WBO , which its president denied. Teuber later admitted that he had not conducted any correspondence with the WBO in this regard. He was accused by the news magazine Spiegel of having written "backdated letters to the WBO". Teuber was also criticized for his handling of the association's funds. Klaus-Peter Kohl, former BDP president and influential promoter, called for Teuber's resignation, while BDB Vice President Mario Hille turned away from Teuber and resigned from his position.

In mid-November 1997 Teuber was voted out of office as BDB President, his successor was Bodo Eckmann , who knew the support of the then two great German boxing promoters, Klaus-Peter Kohl and Wilfried Sauerland , behind him. Kohl had suggested Eckmann as a candidate. Eckmann strove to end the negative headlines and stressed that he was independent of the two big boxing stables Universum and Sauerland (Eckmann: "In any case, I have no personal interests and am ready for all discussions"). Since he looked after Klaus-Peter Kohl as a doctor and maintained a friendly relationship with him, Eckmann was, according to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, however, "Kohl's confidante". Eckmann rejected allegations of being a slave to the boxing stable Universum. “Universum and the BDB understood that you can get the furthest when you work together. But that doesn't mean that we didn't argue about the matter. But in the end, Universum always stuck to the rules, so we always got on well, ”Eckmann told the Hamburger Abendblatt in February 2010 .

At the beginning of 2004, Sauerland Event, one of the largest German boxing stables, left the BDB and joined the Austrian federation. Sauerland thus drew the consequences of alleged racist and anti-Semitic statements that the then BDB Vice President Hans Högner is said to have made. Högner resigned in May 2003. Sauerland and Universum called for the allegations to be clarified. According to Sauerland, the "association has missed a sure instinct and has not clearly distanced itself". President Eckmann firmly rejected the charge that the BDB was xenophobic. “However, it is completely absurd to accuse the BDB or myself of xenophobia,” said Eckmann in January 2004. When the Sauerland left the BDB, fewer financial resources were available. In 2008, another big boxing stable left the BDB with Arena by Ahmet Öner . Öner had accused the BDB of preferring the Universum boxing stable.

Eckmann remained in office as President until 2010. According to the assessment of the Hamburger Abendblatt, he always proceeded according to the motto "to adhere uncompromisingly to the rules anchored in the BDB statutes". Under his leadership, the BDB had "changed from a small interest group to an efficient sports association".

In April 2010 Thomas Pütz was elected as the new BDB President. According to Pütz's statement, Klaus-Peter Kohl asked the entrepreneur if he didn't want to go into candy. The election was repeated due to a violation of the association's statutes, but the result was contested. Pütz was accused of mixing his voluntary work as BDB president and his professional trade. As the owner of a security company, Pütz was regularly involved in boxing events, among other things. The presidential election was repeated in May 2011, and Pütz won the vote again. Due to the expiry of the television contract between the Universum boxing stable (one of the largest BDB members at the time) and ZDF , the association lacked "decisive income", according to Pütz. He noticed "that the association was on the verge of bankruptcy" and considered filing for bankruptcy. According to his own statement, Pütz carried out "rigid austerity measures" and thus saved the association from collapse.

Pütz had taken over the office of BDB chairman when the heyday of professional boxing in Germany in the 1990s and 2000s had already subsided noticeably. In 2017, 82 professional boxing events were held under the supervision of the association. As of the end of November 2018, the Association of German Professional Boxers had around 750 members.

Board

  • Thomas Pütz (President)
  • Michael Facklam (Vice President Administration)
  • Volker Grill (Vice President Sport)

Anti-doping

The BDB does not receive any state funding. For cost reasons, the association does not submit to the anti- doping rules of WADA . Unannounced checks at the athletes' home will not be carried out. A doping test is done about every second fight.

Web links

literature

  • Beckmann's sports dictionary. AZ . Vienna: Otto Beckmann. 1933.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bund Deutscher Berufsboxer eV, Association register no .: VR 2653, Charlottenburg District Court .
  2. ↑ : Blunt abdominal trauma . In: Spiegel Online . tape June 26 , 1977 ( spiegel.de [accessed January 3, 2020]).
  3. ↑ DIED: Theo "Goldfinger" Wittenbrink . In: Spiegel Online . tape April 16 , 1986 ( spiegel.de [accessed October 20, 2019]).
  4. ↑ a b Die Welt, 1984, Germany, German . ( archive.org [accessed October 20, 2019]).
  5. ↑ "Gallows and bankrupts". Weller also vouched for the fees. In: The world. April 1, 1985. Retrieved October 20, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Blunt abdominal trauma - DER SPIEGEL 26/1977. Retrieved April 24, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Professional boxing: associations in a clinch. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. February 17, 1978, accessed April 24, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Bertram Job: Instructions for use for boxing . Piper Paperback, 2015, ISBN 978-3-492-27668-9 .
  9. ^ A b Geyer and: BOXING: Bockwurst instead of shellfish . In: Spiegel Online . tape 36 , September 1, 1997 ( spiegel.de [accessed September 25, 2019]).
  10. ↑ Rocky - the covered up doping case. March 19, 1997, accessed on September 25, 2019 (German).
  11. ↑ WORLD: Low blows in the power struggle in the league of professional boxers . October 30, 1997 ( welt.de [accessed September 25, 2019]).
  12. ↑ Because of doping! Rocky canceled the press conference. March 20, 1997, accessed September 25, 2019 (German).
  13. ↑ a b WORLD: The ring is free for Bodo Eckmann . November 16, 1997 ( welt.de [accessed September 25, 2019]).
  14. ↑ Box promoter in intensive care unit / person who caused the accident drunk? : Tiger manager Kohl in an artificial coma. March 25, 1997, accessed on September 25, 2019 (German).
  15. ↑ a b Hamburger Abendblatt- Hamburg: Boxing: BDB President Bodo Eckmann resigns - will Nartz succeed? February 19, 2010, accessed on September 25, 2019 (German).
  16. ^ Arne Leyenberg: Bund Deutscher Berufsboxer: Who pays, creates . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed September 25, 2019]).
  17. ↑ Sauerland leaves BDB. January 12, 2004, accessed on September 25, 2019 (German).
  18. ↑ Matthias Brzezinski: Bad low blows. January 15, 2004, accessed on September 25, 2019 (German).
  19. ↑ shoving on the front row. Retrieved September 25, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Björn Jensen: "Giving up is out of the question for me". January 26, 2004, accessed on September 25, 2019 (German).
  21. ↑ CLAUDIO CATUOGNO: Sturm im Ringgeviert . In: The daily newspaper: taz . February 11, 2004, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 13 ( taz.de [accessed September 25, 2019]).
  22. ↑ Öner threatens a million dollar lawsuit. Retrieved September 25, 2019 .
  23. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt- Hamburg: Boxing: BDB President Bodo Eckmann resigns - will Nartz succeed? February 19, 2010, accessed on September 25, 2019 (German).
  24. ↑ a b Christopher Herbst: Thomas Pütz: Germany's top boxer. December 12, 2011, accessed on September 25, 2019 (German).
  25. ↑ a b : Court: Boxing association election invalid. Retrieved September 25, 2019 .
  26. ^ Pütz in the third attempt President of the professional boxers - STIMME.de. Retrieved September 25, 2019 .
  27. ↑ Björn Jensen: "Doping is the biggest problem in boxing". November 17, 2018, accessed on September 25, 2019 (German).
  28. Jump up - why boxers can dope almost unhindered