German baseball and softball association

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German baseball and softball association
DBV logo (since 2018)
Founded 5th December 1950
Place of foundation Heidelberg
president Jürgen Elsishans
Members 22,522 (as of: 2018)
Association headquarters Mannheim
Homepage www.baseball-softball.de

The German Baseball and Softball Association e. V. ( DBV ) is the umbrella organization of the German baseball and softball clubs . It was founded on December 5, 1950 as Amateur Baseball Federation Germany and was given its current name in 1980. The seat of the association is Mannheim ; the office is located in Frankfurt am Main at the DOSB (House of Sports).

history

The Germans' first encounter with baseball took place in 1936 during the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. A total of 100,000 spectators watched this demonstration game, as a result of which individual groups in Berlin were engaged in baseball. However, these activities were discontinued with the outbreak of World War II. After the war, baseball was best known in Germany through the German Youth Activities program during the American occupation. At that time there was an American baseball championship in Germany, which was held among the American companies. The sport met with great interest and so there were already around 140 German youth baseball teams in 1948 before the first German baseball club was founded in 1948 with the Frankfurt Juniors . After other clubs had been founded, the Amateur Baseball Federation Germany was founded in 1950, which from then on mainly took care of the game operations and the organization of the German baseball championship . Due to a lack of youth work and the organization of the sport of baseball in Germany, baseball in Germany almost completely disappeared from the scene in the 1970s, before the sport regained its strength in the 1980s. During this time, the association was renamed the German Baseball and Softball Association in 1980 .

organs

The organs of the DBV are the Federal Assembly, the Presidium, the committees (competitive sport, education, competitive sport, mass sport, sports facilities / environment) and the judicial organs (Federal Court and Sports Court).

President

From To president place
5th December 1950 January 27, 1952 Wilfried Schmidt Marburg
January 27, 1952 1953 Albrecht Rudiger bad Homburg
1953 1957 Alfred Buchner Frankfurt am Main
1957 1982 Richard Kermas Mannheim
1982 1984 Gerhard Baur Munich
1984 March 1988 Klaus Fritsche Cologne
March 1988 March 18, 2001 Martin Miller Ingolstadt
March 18, 2001 March 31, 2007 Frank Wagner Munich
March 31, 2007 15th November 2014 Michael Hartmann Mainz
15th November 2014 March 9, 2019 Mirko Heid Bonn
Since March 9, 2019 Jürgen Elsishans Edingen-Neckarhausen

Game operation

The DBV is also responsible for the organization of the game operations above the association leagues. The league structure for baseball looks like this, although not the entire depth of the organizational structure is used in individual state associations.

  • 1. Bundesliga baseball
  • 2nd Bundesliga baseball
  • Regional league
  • Association league
  • National league
  • District League

From the 2017 season, the regional league will cease to exist; instead, the 2nd Bundesliga will be expanded accordingly.

In softball, due to the smaller number of clubs, the following structure of the game operation results; here too, in some cases, not all available organizational levels are used:

Regional associations

The DBV has 10 regional associations as sub-organizations, which are responsible, among other things, for game operations under the regional leagues.

So far there is no regional association in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, but HBV and SHBV are involved in the organization of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Baseball League (MVBL).

Memberships in national and international organizations

The DBV represents the interests of German base and softball players in various national and international organizations, in particular the international baseball and softball associations and national sports associations.

DBV Hall of Fame

Since 1994 the DBV has regularly accepted players, coaches and other officials of the German baseball and softball sport into the DBV Hall of Fame .

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Number of members. Retrieved April 22, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Mannheim District Court VR 1150
  3. ↑ a b Martin Miller: Baseball - a demanding sport on the way up: http://www.baseball-softball.de/dbv/index.php?id=00000860  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. As of August 20, 2009.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.baseball-softball.de  
  4. ^ German Baseball & Softball Association eV: Baseball in Germany 1945 to 1950 ( Memento from October 31, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), as of August 20, 2009.
  5. ↑ Presidium since 1950: http://www.baseball-softball.de/dbv/index.php?id=00000762  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , As of August 20, 2009.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.baseball-softball.de  
  6. ↑ Articles of Association (2019)
  7. ↑ Federal game regulations: Changes for 2017: http://www.baseball-softball.de/wp-content/uploads/Aenderungen-fuer-BuSpO-2017.pdf , p. 2.