German Badminton Association

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German Badminton Association
Founded January 18, 1953
Place of foundation Wiesbaden
president Thomas Born
societies 3,258
Members 187.717
Association headquarters Mülheim an der Ruhr
Homepage www.badminton.de

The German Badminton Association e. V. ( DBV ) was founded on January 18, 1953. It is divided into 16 regional associations. Since a structural reform in 2004, the DBV has been headed by a five-person presidium chaired by the DBV president.

founding

On the occasion of a sporting goods fair in Wiesbaden , the sporting goods merchant Fred Haas was commissioned by the Association of German Sports Shops in 1953 to organize badminton advertising games. Haas invited all the German badminton clubs and departments he knew with the aim of holding the 1st German individual championships. These took place on January 17th and 18th, 1953 in the Schloßreithalle in Wiesbaden.

The representatives of the 14 participating clubs founded the German Badminton Association on the second day of the championship, on January 18, 1953. V. (DBV). The Bonn entrepreneur Hans Riegel ( Haribo ) was elected as the first president .

The Hessian Badminton Association was the first state association to be launched on July 26, 1953 in Lindenfels. The Schleswig-Holstein Badminton Association and the Badminton Regional Association of North Rhine-Westphalia followed in the same year. On the 2nd day of the association on February 20, 1954, the first DBV statutes were passed, in which the three named state associations are listed as members.

Since the DBV statutes were passed, the associations themselves are no longer direct members of the DBV, but their regional associations. Associations in whose federal state there was no regional association at that time were forced to found one themselves. In 1955, for example, the Badminton clubs in Lower Saxony managed to found the NBV just in time to get the right to start the German championship.

In 1953 the DBV joined what was then the International Badminton Federation (IBF) - today the Badminton World Federation (BWF) - the world umbrella organization. In May of the following year, the DBV was accepted as the 26th professional association in the German Sports Confederation (DSB), and in 1967 it was one of the founding members of the European Badminton Union (EBU) - today Badminton Europe (BE) .

German Badminton Association of the GDR

The German Badminton Federation (DFV) was founded in January 1958, and in the same year he joined the International Badminton Federation (IBF). A comprehensive competition was carried out within the GDR . However, since badminton was one of the “sports not worthy of funding”, the athletes' international starting opportunities - despite their high level of performance - were largely limited to the Eastern Bloc at the time . On November 18, 1990, the five East German regional associations that emerged from the DFV were incorporated into the DBV in the congress center in East Berlin with legal effect from January 1, 1991.

President of the DBV

  • Hans Riegel (Bonn) 1953 to 1962
  • Hubert Brohl (Düsseldorf) 1962 to 1971
  • Hans Hoffmann (Hanover) 1971 to 1974
  • Hans-Peter Küsters (Krefeld) 1974 to 1976
  • Heinz Barge (Oberhausen) 1976 to 1988
  • Dieter Kespohl (Hochspeyer) 1988 to 2006
  • Karl-Heinz Kerst (Kleve) 2006 to 2016
  • Thomas Born (Berlin) since June 11, 2016

Regional associations

The following regional associations are members of the DBV (as of 2016):

  • Badminton Association Berlin-Brandenburg: Originated from the two state associations Berlin and Brandenburg.
  • Baden-Württemberg Badminton Association: Emerged from the Badminton Association of Baden and the Württemberg Badminton Association
  • Badminton regional association North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Badminton regional association Saxony-Anhalt
  • Badminton Regional Association of Thuringia
  • Badminton Association Rhineland
  • Badminton Association Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
  • Badminton Association of Saxony
  • Badminton Association Rheinhessen-Pfalz
  • Bavarian Badminton Association
  • Bremen Badminton Association
  • Lower Saxony Badminton Association
  • Hamburg Badminton Association
  • Hessian Badminton Association
  • Saarland Badminton Association
  • Schleswig-Holstein Badminton Association

Major events, tournaments and leagues

National

International

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Inventory survey 2019 (PDF) German Olympic Sports Confederation, accessed on August 27, 2020 .
  2. ^ The DBV in numbers. German Badminton Association, accessed July 2, 2016 .
  3. ^ The DBV Association Day 2016. German Badminton Association, accessed on July 2, 2016 .