German Disabled Sports Association

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German Disabled Sports Association
Logo of the German Disabled Sports Association.svg
Founded 4th July 1951
Place of foundation bad Godesberg
president Friedhelm Julius Beucher
societies 6,412
Members 565.090
Association headquarters Bonn
Homepage www.dbs-npc.de

The German Disabled Sports Association e. V. ( DBS ) is the German umbrella organization for sports for people with disabilities and the National Paralympic Committee (NPC) for Germany. It was founded on July 4, 1951 by decision of the Federal Ministry. The DBS is a registered, non-profit association whose federal office is based in Frechen .

history

The beginnings of disabled sports

On 19./20. August 1950 the 1st German Disabled Sports Championships in swimming and athletics with 200 participants. At the same time, with this championship supported by Federal President Theodor Heuss , the German Disabled Sports Association is founded. Eugen Weimann is elected first chairman.

Almost a year later, the Federal Ministry of Labor resolved on June 27, 1951, “The disabled sport is to be promoted as a compensatory sport on a broad basis with regard to the type and operation, especially through the orthopedic supply centers and in the supply, health and spa facilities it should be promoted as a curative measure As a result, representatives of the disabled sport, the federal ministries, the war victims associations and the states on the occasion of the 1st conference on July 4th, 1951 in Bad Godesberg found the "Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Versehrtenport" (ADV), into which the German Disabled Sports Association is integrated. Arthur Mallwitz is elected as first chairman.

On July 14, 1951, the German Sports Confederation (DSB) decided to recognize the ADV as the “top representation of disabled athletes”. In 1952 the ADV was accepted as a member of the German Olympic Society .

The Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History ("NISH") in Hanover has the largest collection on the history of disabled sports .

From ADV to DBS

Five years after it was founded, the ADV has over 26,000 active athletes in 306 disabled sports groups in 12 regional associations with 1,200 sports officers and 600 doctors. At the general meeting on April 28, 1957, it was decided to rename the ADV to “Deutscher Vers ertensportverband e. V. "(DVS).

On the 1st Ordinary Association Day of the DVS in Würzburg on 26./27. November 1960 a new statute is passed, which better integrates the regional associations through their participation in the newly established main board. In 1964, the number of members was already over 44,628 members in 868 sports groups, who were professionally supervised by 2,300 trainers and 1,500 doctors. In 1966, the German Sports Confederation incorporated DVS into the “extraordinary member organizations”. In 1968, a DVS committee published a new version of the “Conditions for disabled people for the German sports badge” and thus divided physical injuries into 32 damage classes.

The Association Day in Bensberg on July 5, 1975 decided to change the name of the association again. The German Disabled Sports Association e. V. (DVS) will in future be the “German Disabled Sports Association e. V. "(DBS) are called and thus adapts to the legislation of the federal and state governments, which convert the term" disabled "into" disabled ".

The DBS expands its fields of activity

On February 18, 1978, the DBS Presidium approved the German Wheelchair Sports Association . V. (DRS) to be included in the German Disabled Sports Association and put on an equal footing with the regional associations. The main board of the DBS deals in Marienheide on October 4, 1980, among other things with competitive sports . It is agreed that competitive sport needs financial and moral support in order to meet international demands. From now on, the Deutsche Sporthilfe Foundation will provide financial support to competitive sports for the disabled. However, the primary task of the DBS remains popular sport .

The 8th Ordinary Association Day of the DBS in Fulda on November 14, 1981 takes the amendment of the statutes before the "Youth Committee" to be included as an official organ in the DBS. Less than four years later, on March 10, 1985, the first full assembly of the DBSJ takes place, the German Disabled Sports Youth is born.

In the course of time, the DBS is now also checking the possibilities of "sports for the mentally handicapped" (old name (source www.dbs-npc.de); today: people with mental disabilities). From January 25, 1986, the interests of competitive athletes will be officially represented by an active spokesman. On September 30, 1988, the main board decided to deal from now on with the future areas of “rehabilitation sport” and the “doping issue” in competitive sport.

Late 1980s until today

After the world games in Seoul (South Korea), which were very successful for the DBS athletes, in 1988, the DBS federal office moved from Düsseldorf to the Duisburg-Wedau sports school in 1989. The 10th Ordinary Association Day of the DBS, which meets on April 29th in Saarbrücken of the same year, will for the first time include a representative for “Sport of Women” in the Presidium.

On September 22nd, 1989, 240 delegates from 46 nations agreed in Düsseldorf to unite the existing six world associations for disabled sports (physically handicapped, paraplegic, deaf, blind, cerebral movement disorders and mentally handicapped people) in one umbrella organization. The new world association is named " International Paralympic Committee " (IPC). From January 1, 1991, the state associations of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia also belong to the German Disabled Sports Association.

The 1st International Congress of the DBS "Rehabilitation through Sport" from October 25th to 28th, 1995 in Düsseldorf deals with issues of sporting activity such as multiple disabilities, strokes, addiction and mental illness, osteoporosis, blindness and visual impairment, cardiology, as well as law and Organization. As part of the 12th Ordinary Association Day on May 3, 1997 in Ratingen, the "Anti-Doping Regulations" are included in the statutes of the DBS. A survey in 1998 shows that with 24,000 active athletes, sport for the mentally handicapped is also establishing itself. Rehabilitation sport is increasingly becoming one of the most important tasks of the DBS, and so the “Rehabilitation Sport” committee was established on July 25, 1998 in Hanover.

In the new millennium (2000) the DBS has 304,542 members and 3,342 associations. Today the German Disabled Sports Association is the competent umbrella organization in the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB), the former German Sports Confederation (DSB), for sports for people with disabilities and at the same time the National Paralympic Committee (NPC) for Germany.

Structure and members of the DBS

According to the statutes, the German Disabled Sports Association differentiates between ordinary and extraordinary members. The full members include 17 regional associations and two professional associations.

In addition, the DBS has a self-governing youth organization, the German Disabled Sports Youth (DBSJ) , as part of its statutes .

The regional associations

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  • Bavaria
  • Berlin
  • Brandenburg
  • Bremen
  • Hamburg
  • Hesse
  • Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
  • Lower Saxony
  • North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Rhineland-Palatinate
  • Saarland
  • Saxony
  • Saxony-Anhalt
  • Schleswig-Holstein
  • Thuringia
  • Württemberg

The professional associations

The extraordinary members

The extraordinary members currently include seven organizations.

  • German board of trustees for therapeutic riding
  • Social Association Germany (SoVD)
  • German Association of the Blind and Visually Impaired
  • Special Olympics Germany (SOD)
  • German Rowing Association (DRV)
  • Disabled Golf Club Germany
  • German-Turkish association for the promotion of disabled sports

Memberships of the DBS

The DBS is itself a member of three associations.

Association day, main board, presidium and board of trustees

Association day

At the head of the DBS is a voluntary executive committee, which is elected by the Association Day, the highest body in the DBS, which meets every four years. The association day also elects the honorary members of the association.

Composition of the Association Day:

  • All members of the main board
  • 250 delegates from the regional associations (divided according to the number of members)
  • Two delegates from each of the disabled sports associations
  • Two delegates each of the extraordinary members
  • All honorary members of the association

Main board

Between these association days, the main board is the highest body in the German Disabled Sports Association.

Composition of the main board:

  • All members of the Presidium
  • The chairmen or presidents of the full members or another member of the respective board
  • The honorary presidents of the DBS
  • The chairperson of the Conference of Extraordinary Members
  • The chairperson of the board of trustees
  • The representative for girls and women

Bureau

The Presidium elected by the Association Day is primarily responsible for the implementation of the resolutions made by the Association Day and the main board and the management of the DBS.

Composition of the Presidium:

  • The president
  • The Vice President Finance and Economics
  • The Vice President Competitive Sports
  • The vice president of popular sports, preventive sports and rehabilitation sports
  • The Vice President Education and Teaching
  • The Vice President Medicine
  • The chairman of the DBSJ

Board of Trustees

The board of trustees consists of important personalities from society. The SPD politician and former Federal Minister of Justice Brigitte Zypries has chaired the Board of Trustees since November 3, 2009 .

Composition of the Board of Trustees:

  • Personalities from politics, business, science and the sports and disability associations
  • The president
  • A vice president
  • Two representatives of the regional associations

Committees and commissions are set up as working bodies, the composition of which is specified in the statutes. The full-time representation of the DBS is the federal office in Duisburg. This is led by the General Secretary and usually reflects the voluntary structures of the Presidium through appropriate presentations. The German Disabled Sports Association works with a large number of cooperation partners in order to use synergy effects and jointly establish sports for people with disabilities. The work of the DBS is also supported by the sponsorship group for disabled sports, the foundation for disabled sports and sponsors.

Number of members of the DBS

The number of members of the DBS has increased steadily since 1951. In 1956, five years after the association was founded, there were already 13,093 members, but by the time the population was surveyed in 2019, the number had grown to 565,019 members. The number of nationwide licensed technical trainers amounted to 23,862 in the survey in 2008.

Tasks and goals of the DBS

According to the paragraphs anchored in the statutes, the German Disabled Sports Association is neutral in terms of party politics, association politics and denomination. Its purpose is to promote and use disabled sports as a means of rehabilitation and social integration. Everyone with a disability should have the opportunity to participate in sport in the process of rehabilitation and under the aspect of medically accompanied health promotion.

The tasks of the DBS are therefore essentially social and welfare work. To this end, they participate in the legislative process on all issues relating to disabled sports or handicapped body exercises and have an influence on decisions. The DBS also conducts courses and events at national and international level, acts as the German National Association for Competitive Sports (NPC) at national and international level, promotes, builds and maintains sports and leisure facilities, publishes association information as well as suitable specialist literature or awards or . participates in research assignments. In order to guarantee equality between women and men, we expressly commit to the principles of gender mainstreaming. The DBS only pursues the goal of charitable status.

Committees and commissions

The tasks and areas of competence in the German Disabled Sports Association are distributed among various committees and commissions. Which includes:

The "Competitive Sports" Committee

Tasks:

  • responsible management and administration of competitive sport
  • Development of concepts for promoting performance and promoting young talent
  • Planning and implementation of cross-departmental events
  • Creation of department regulations
  • public relation

The Committee "Popular Sport"

Tasks:

  • Coordination of grassroots sport issues
  • Elaboration of national guidelines for the implementation of popular sport
  • Collection and evaluation of information about popular sport

The "Rehabilitation Sports" Committee

tasks

  • Creation of uniform nationwide guidelines for performing rehabilitation sport in terms of legal and contractual requirements
  • Preparation of contracts with service providers at the federal level with the aim of uniform nationwide regulations
  • Further development of rehabilitation sport in relation to types of sport and disability as well as the initiation of model measures to implement the concepts
  • Collection and evaluation of information on rehabilitation sports

The Education / Teaching Committee

Tasks:

  • Development of concepts for the introduction of qualified employees for competitive sports
  • Appointment of federal teaching officers
  • Acquisition and training of speakers for teaching work and performance control
  • Coordination of the teaching work of rehabilitation sports and popular sports in the regional associations
  • Liaise with other training institutions and evaluate the work of these institutions
  • Creation of teaching materials and annual course programs

"Medicine" Commission

  • Health promotion, prevention and rehabilitation
  • Quality management
  • Anti-doping
  • sports medicine
  • Gender mainstreaming

Commission "Girls and Women"

  • Gender mainstreaming
  • Development and implementation of programs to promote women

Function as the National Paralympic Committee

The German Disabled Sports Association represents the interests of Paralympic sports in Germany in the form of the National Paralympic Committee . According to the rules of the IOC, the National Paralympic Committee is an independent and autonomous organization within the self-administration of German sport. According to the statutes, it serves to disseminate Paralympic ideas in the Federal Republic of Germany, prepares the participation of German sports in the Paralympic Games and carries out tasks that are assigned to the German Olympic Sports Confederation by the IOC. It maintains contacts with the National Olympic Committees around the world.

President

President of the German Disabled Sports Association since it was founded in 1951:

  • 1951: Arthur Mallwitz (interim chairman)
  • 1952–1960: Gerd Brinkmann (chairman)
  • 1960–1965: Gerd Brinkmann (President)
  • 1965–1984: Eberhard Roßlenbroich (President)
  • 1984–1989: Heinz Haep (President)
  • 1989–1995: Reiner Krippner (President)
  • 1995–2005: Theodor Zühlsdorf (President)
  • 2005–2009: Karl Hermann Haack (President)
  • 2009 – today: Friedhelm Julius Beucher (President)

The German Disabled Sports Youth (DBSJ)

Logo of the DBSJ

The development of sport for children and young people with disabilities began in the early 1980s and became official with the establishment of the DBSJ in 1985. The promotion of young people with disabilities is an essential task, the special importance of which is expressed through a separate youth organization within the DBS. The German Disabled Sports Youth runs and administrates itself independently within the framework of the statutes and regulations of the DBS.

It wants to create the opportunity for young people with disabilities to do sport under medical supervision in communities through the youth work of the regular members of the DBS and their members, to contribute to personal development, to promote social and psychophysical development, to stimulate social engagement and through encounters and To contribute to the integration of sporting events with non-disabled children and young people and to awaken and cultivate the willingness for international understanding through contacts with foreign groups.

Beijing 2008 Summer Paralympics

Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games emblem

From August 8th to August 24th, 2008, the 2008 Summer Olympics (officially called the XXIXth Olympiad Games ) were mainly held in the Chinese capital Beijing . It was the first Summer Olympic Games to be held in China. Beijing received the award of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on July 13, 2001.

The contract between the host countries and the IOC states that the Paralympics will use the same venue as the Olympic Games. The 13th Summer Paralympics were officially held from September 6th to 17th, 2008 in Beijing, China, and people with disabilities were able to demonstrate their abilities and strengths. The DBS performed the tasks of the National Paralympic Committee at these games and sent the athletes who had met the requirements and guidelines to Beijing and looked after them on site.

At the Paralympic Games in Beijing, competitions were held in the following 20 sports:

  • Archery
  • athletics
  • Boccia
  • Cycling (road / terrain)
  • horse riding
  • Soccer (5 players)
  • Soccer (7 players)
  • Goalball
  • Judo
  • Weightlifting
  • rowing
  • sailing
  • shoot
  • swim
  • Table tennis
  • volleyball
  • Wheelchair basketball
  • Wheelchair fencing
  • Wheelchair rugby
  • Wheelchair tennis

See also main article: 2008 Summer Paralympics

Other partners of the German Disabled Sports Association

Logo of the DBS Academy

DBS Academy gGmbH

The Academy of the German Disabled Sports Association was founded on April 21, 2006 by the DBS, 14 regional associations and the German Wheelchair Sports Association.

aims

The advice and support of the DBS and its regional and professional associations in the areas of education, training and further education in disabled sports as well as in leadership, management and administration as well as the creation of concepts in this area. Furthermore, the tasks of the academy are the conception, implementation, moderation and documentation of events on the subject of people with disabilities and the highlighting of the great importance of sport for people with disabilities.

Support group for disabled sport e. V.

The DBS sponsorship group was founded in 1998.

aims

Funding of innovative projects by non-profit institutions in disabled sports with up to 50% of the total.

See also

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 2019 inventory (PDF) German Olympic Sports Confederation, accessed on July 3, 2020 .