German Hockey Association

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German Hockey Association
German Hockey Association Logo2.svg
Founded December 31, 1909
Place of foundation Bonn
President Carola Meyer
Board Heiko von Glahn
societies 376
Members 85,950
Association headquarters Am Hockeypark 1
41179 Mönchengladbach
Homepage www.deutscher-hockey-bund.de
Headquarters of the DHB in the administration building of the hockey park in Mönchengladbach

The German Hockey Association e. V. (DHB) is the umbrella organization for hockey in Germany and was founded on December 31, 1909 in Bonn . After a few moves, most recently from Hürth , the association now has its headquarters in the Hockeypark in Mönchengladbach . The DHB has around 85,000 members in around 380 clubs (as of 2019). It is the amalgamation of the German hockey clubs that are part of the 15 state hockey associations of Baden-Wuerttemberg , Bavaria , Berlin , Brandenburg , Bremen , Hamburg , Hesse , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Lower Saxony , Rhineland-Palatinate / Saar , Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt , Schleswig-Holstein , Thuringia and West Germany are organized. The German Hockey Association is a member of the German Olympic Sports Confederation , as well as the World Hockey Association FIH ( Fédération Internationale de Hockey ) and the European Hockey Association EHF ( European Hockey Federation ). The German Hockey Association is also responsible for the German national hockey teams. Carola Meyer has been President since May 2019.

structure

The 15 national hockey associations
Former logo (until 2014)

The West German Hockey Association is a state and regional association, the association boundaries essentially correspond to the federal states:

  Regional association Regional association
01 Bremen Hockey Association Interest group north
02 Hamburg Hockey Association
03 Schleswig-Holstein Hockey Association
04th Lower Saxony Hockey Association
05 Berlin Hockey Association East German Hockey Association
06th Brandenburg Hockey Sports Association
07th Hockey Association Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
08th Saxon Hockey Association
09 Hockey Association Saxony-Anhalt
10 Thuringian Hockey Sports Association
11 Hockey Association Baden-Württemberg South German Hockey Association
12 Bavarian Hockey Association
13 Hessian Hockey Association
14th Hockey Association Rhineland-Palatinate / Saar
15th West German Hockey Association West German Hockey Association

After its re-establishment on December 10, 1949 in Cologne, the DHB initially had eleven regional associations: The Baden HV and the Württemberg HV only merged on June 22, 1996 to form the HV Baden-Württemberg, the Brandenburg HSV, the HV Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and the Saxon HV , the HV Sachsen-Anhalt and the Thuringian HSV joined the DHB on November 3, 1990 in Hürth.

The presidents of the DHB

  • 1909–1914 Kurt Doerry , Berlin
  • 1914–1928 Georg Berger, Berlin
  • 1928–1937 Georg Evers, Berlin
  • 1949–1967 Paul Reinberg, Hamburg
  • 1967–1973 Adolf Kulzinger, Mannheim
  • 1973–1985 Jürg Schaefer, Frankfurt / M.
  • 1985–1993 Wolfgang PR Rommel, Hamburg
  • 1993–1999 Michael Krause , Dortmund
  • 1999–2005 Christoph Wüterich, Stuttgart
  • 2005–2015 Stephan Abel, Cologne
  • 2015–2019 Wolfgang Hillmann, Cologne
  • since 2019 Carola Meyer, Cologne

National teams

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Hockey Association - Board of Directors / Directorate
  2. ↑ a b Inventory survey 2019. (PDF) German Olympic Sports Confederation, accessed on June 1, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b hockey.de history of DHB
  4. ↑ Carola Meyer as the first woman at the top of the DHB. Retrieved April 23, 2020 .
  5. ^ Deutsche Hockey Zeitung, 49th Volume, No. 22, July 4th 1996.