German Darts Association

German Darts Association eV
Logo of the German Dart Association
sport	Darts
Founded	August 21, 1982
Place of foundation	Wiesbaden
president	Michael Sandner
societies	736
Members	13,343
Association headquarters	Wiesbaden
Homepage	deutscherdartverband.de

The German Darts Association e. V. ( DDV ) is the national umbrella organization for darts in Germany . It is recognized by the World Darts Federation , which belongs to the association of international sports associations SportAccord , as the sole responsible darts association for Germany and has been a member of the German Olympic Sports Confederation since December 2010 .

history

The DDV was founded on August 21, 1982 in Wiesbaden.

Rolf Kahrau from Cologne was elected as the first president of the DDV. This position is currently held by Michael Sandner.

In 1983 the DDV was entered in the register of associations at the Wiesbaden district court.

On December 4, 2010, the German Darts Association became the 98th member of the DOSB at the general assembly of the German Olympic Sports Confederation in Munich. At that time, the DDV had a total of 11,019 members.

In 2018, the DDV was able to hire full-time competitive sports personnel for the first time and is heading into the future with sports director Jürgen Rollmann .

The German Darts Association has been a member of the World Disability Darts Association (WDDA) since 2019 and is hosting a Paradart season for the first time in 2020 .

Members

In 2019, over 13,000 members are organized in 13 permanent regional associations in the DDV. Thuringia has been the 13th member of the DDV since 2016. The DDV thus consists of the following regional associations:

• BDV (Bavarian Darts Association)
• BWDV (Baden-Württemberg Darts Association)
• DVBB (Darts Association Berlin Brandenburg)
• HBDV (Hanseatic City of Bremen Darts Association)
• HDV (Hessian Darts Association 1985)
• LDVH (State Darts Association Hamburg)
• LDVT (State Darts Association Thuringia)
• NDV (Lower Saxony Darts Association)
• NWDV (North Rhine-Westphalian Darts Association)
• RPDV (Rhineland-Palatinate Darts Association)
• SADV (Saarland Darts Association)
• SDV (Saxon Darts Association)
• SHDV (Schleswig-Holstein Darts Association)

Competitive sport

The DDV has kept individual rankings for women and men since it was founded. At the German championship in 1987, a junior tournament was played for the first time. Since the 1995/96 season, the youngsters have been playing their ranking tournaments separately for boys and girls.

After the German championships and the German Masters, the largest and most important national tournaments are the three world ranking tournaments Bull's German Open (Bochum), German Gold Cup (Bremen) and Dortmund Open. The Bull's German Open is one of the largest darts tournaments in the world with almost 1600 participants in singles (seniors and juniors).

Team sports are also practiced in the DDV. There is a fixed league structure in the regional associations. Until 2004, the national associations always sent the respective national champions and other qualified participants to the German team championship. The German team champion was then played on a weekend.

The DDV has been organizing a Bundesliga since 2005. In two groups of 9 divided into a Bundesliga North and South, the participants of the Bundesliga finals are determined on 8 match days. In the first two years, the top two of the two relays qualified for the finals. In 2007 the number of final round participants was increased to 8 teams, now the top four teams take part in the final round.

Currently (season 2017/18) the following 18 teams play in the Bundesliga:

Group south:

• DC Black Birds Kelheim
• DC Dartmoor Darmstadt
• DV Kaiserslautern
• Dartspub Walldorf
• DSV Finnigans Harp Nuremberg
• Bear Flörsheim
• Darts team Essenbach
• TSV Ginnheim
• Taraxacuma Huttenheim

Group north:

• DC Vegesack Bremen
• SC Diedersen Treble Bull
• DC Bulldogs Wolfenbüttel
• 1st DSC Bochum 1982
• Aera of Darts Buxtehude eV
• Blind wins Dortmund
• Vikings DC Berlin
• The rats Bremen
• DSC double 1 Dinslaken

List of German masters

year	Men	Women	Team champions
1982	Wolfgang Damm	not carried out	not carried out
1983	Peter Hummel
1984	Bernd Hebecker	Bianca Schmidt	Jolly DT Berlin
1985	Rolf Kahrau	Birgit Thomas	Broadway Bremen
1986	Dieter Sentrup	Sabine Eggerer	Post SV Hannover
1987	Wolfgang Nolte	Ela Worms	Post SV Hanover (2)
1988	Dieter Schutsch	Gabi Kosuch	Post SV Hanover (3)
1989	Rainer Halfmann	Gabi Kosuch (2)	Cologne darts club
1990	Andreas Kröckel	Andrea Leipold	Cologne Darts Club (2)
1991	Bert Hansen	Marion Diehn	DC Seligenstadt
1992	Kai Pfeiffer	Heike Ernst	DSC food
1993	Bernhard Willert	Heike Ernst (2)	1. DC Mülheim / Ruhr
1994	Frank Mast	Heike Ernst (3)	1. DC Muelheim / Ruhr (2)
1995	Colin Rice	Gabi Kosuch (3)	1. DC Muelheim / Ruhr (3)
1996	Colin Rice (2)	Heike Ernst (4)	1. DC Muelheim / Ruhr (4)
1997	Olaf Cremer	Bianka shrub	Irish Folk Pub Munich
1998	Olaf Tupuschis	Heike Ernst (5)	1. DC Muelheim / Ruhr (5)
1999	Marcel Schmidt	Kerstin Niederau	1. DC Muelheim / Ruhr (6)
2000	Thomas Wille	Heike Ernst (6)	1. DSC Bochum
May 2001	Ulrich Meyer-Schlueter	Heike Ernst (7)	DIG Neu-Isenburg
October 2001	Tomas Seyler	Bianka Shrub (2)
2002	Andree Welge	Trixi Kröckel	1. DC Wuppertal
2003	Tomas Seyler (2)	Heike Ernst (8)	1st DSC Bochum (2)
2004	Tomas Seyler (3)	Heike Ernst (9)	DIG Neu-Isenburg (2)
2005	Andreas Kröckel (2)	Heike Ernst (10)	1st DSC Bochum (3)
2006	Michael Rosenauer	Marene Csepeli	DC Vegesack Bremen
2007	Colin Rice (3)	Bianka Shrub (3)	1st DSC Bochum (4)
2008	Andree Welge (2)	Monique Lessmeister	Vikings DC Berlin
2009	Karsten Koch	Karina Känzig	DC Vegesack Bremen (2)
2010	Kevin Münch	Stefanie Lück	DC Vegesack Bremen (3)
2011	Klaus Rohlederer	Irina Armstrong	DC Vegesack Bremen (4)
2012	Marko pulse	Irina Armstrong (2)	DC Vegesack Bremen (5)
2013	Kevin Munch (2)	Anne welcome	Dartspub Walldorf
2014	Daniel Zygla	Stefanie Lück (2)	DV Kaiserslautern
2015	Pavel Jirkal	Steffi Zwitkowitsch	DC Vegesack Bremen (6)
2016	Martin Schindler	Steffi Zwitkowitsch	DC Black Birds Kelheim
2017	Tobias Seibert	Stefanie Lück (3)	DV Kaiserslautern
2018	Ricardo Pietreczko	Monique Lessmeister	DC Vegesack Bremen (7)
2019	Pascal Wirotius	Monique Lessmeister	DC Dartmoor Darmstadt

Web links

• deutscherdartverband.de - Official website of the German Dart Association
• bulls-germanopen.de - Bull's German Open

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Inventory survey 2019. (PDF) German Olympic Sports Confederation, accessed on May 11, 2020 . 
2. ↑ German Darts Association new member in DOSB dosb.de, accessed on November 28, 2014.
3. ↑ German Darts Association - Michael Sandner is the new President of the German Darts Association , accessed on December 8, 2018.
4. ^ German Olympic Sports Confederation - 2010 inventory , accessed on December 8, 2018.
5. ↑ DDV Association Day 2019 , accessed on October 31, 2019.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Dart Tournaments - German Championship of the DDV , in: dartn.de , accessed on December 8, 2018.
7. ↑ Chronicle of the previous champions and runner-ups , accessed on December 8, 2018.