German Karate Association

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German Karate Association V.
Founded 17th June 1976
Place of foundation Gladbeck
president Wolfgang Weigert
societies 2,464
Members 152,755
Association headquarters Gladbeck
Homepage www.karate.de

The German Karate Association e. V. ( DKV ) is the official and largest professional association for karate in Germany . It is the only professional association funded by the Federal Ministry of the Interior and is recognized by the IOC as a member of the German Olympic Sports Confederation . 16 regional associations with over 2,400 associations, clubs and schools with a total of over 150,000 members are officially represented by the DKV.

history

On April 1, 1957, founded Judoka Jürgen Seydel in Bad Homburg the first Karate - Dojo Germany (Budokan Bad Homburg). The martial art karate spread quickly and in 1961 the German Karate Association (DKB) was founded as the first karate association in Germany. At the same time, the German Judo Association (DJB) tried to unite all Budo sports under its roof and in 1965 founded the "Karate Section in the German Judo Association" (SeKa DJB). As a section of the DJB, this association was automatically a member and thus the official representative of the sport in what was then the German Sports Confederation (DSB). The older karate federation with more members was therefore effectively excluded from the DSB. As a result, there were two national teams that took part in events of various organizations on an international level: the SeKa sent their athletes to events of the European Karate Union (EKU) and the World Union of Karate Do Organizations (WUKO), athletes of the German Karate Association participated in championships of the European Amateur Karate Federation (EAKF) and the International Amateur Karate Federation (IAKF).

In addition to these two associations, there were a number of other, mainly style-related associations, such as the German-Japanese Karate Association (DJKV), the Goju-Kai Germany (GKD), the Wado-Kai Germany (WKD) and the German Karate Union (DKU). All associations found this fragmentation to be untenable in the long run, so that on June 17, 1976, the DKB, GKD and DJKV founded the German Karate Association (DKV) as a joint umbrella organization, which the DKU, WKD and SeKa DJB formally joined on January 1, 1977. On June 11, 1977 this was included in the DOSB, while the SeKa was spun off from the DJB. The SeKa only remains in place in Lower Saxony.

On November 2, 1986 the conversion into a professional association was finally decided. The previously autonomous member associations merged and gave up their membership in favor of the newly formed regional associations. In 1995 the association opened up to other groups and styles as part of a major change in structure and statutes. In addition to the four major styles; Gōjū-ryū , Wadō-ryū , Shitō-ryū and Shōtōkan , the then national coach Toni Dietl, also introduced the style-neutral karate in 1997. Because even in these meanwhile recognized styles not all karate styles were covered. In 1999 he introduced the Junior-Dan from 13 in the DKV. Sound karate followed in 2001. According to the Munzinger archive , Toni Dietl changed karate more than anyone before or after him.

In 1993 national coach Hideo Ochi separated from the German Karate Association and founded the German JKA-Karate Association (DJKB). The DJKB competes internationally in JKA competitions.

In 2007, national coach Toni Dietl and the German Karate Association also split up . He founded the Karate Association Karate College . The Karate College starts internationally at the WKU .

Dispute about association magazine

At the beginning of 2014 the public prosecutor's office in Essen announced that in connection with the publication of the association magazine “Karate, Fachzeitschrift des Deutschen Karate Verband e. V. ” to conduct investigations against a member of the executive committee and a former president of the association on account of allegations of breach of trust and money laundering . According to media reports, DKV's actions are said to have suffered financial damage; the association in the person of its president Wolfgang Weigert denies this representation.

The DKV today

The German Karate Association (DKV) is recognized by the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) and represents: competitive sport, several styles, school karate, karate for people with disabilities, jukuren karate for late beginners, self-defense, etc. Internationally, the DKV is the European Karate Federation (EKF) and the World Karate Federation (WKF) affiliated.

Karate for people with disabilities

As the first WKF member, the DKV already has its own department for karate for people with disabilities . She is represented by the speakers Ernes Erko Kalač (Integration Ambassador of the DOSB), Wolfgang Weigert (DKV President).

Official

The Bureau

president
Wolfgang Weigert
Vice President
Wolfgang Hagge
Vice President
Falk Neumann
Treasurer
Rainer Wenzel
Sports director
Christian Gruener
Manager
Gundi Günther

National coach

The respective national cadres are trained and supervised by: national coach Efthimios Karamitsos of the Kata A- B- C- team, national coach Thomas Nitschmann of the Kumite A- B- C- team, national youth coach Klaus Bitsch of the Kumite team for students and youth.

Regional associations

The German Karate Association is divided into 16 regional associations.

  • Karate Association Baden-Württemberg e. V.
  • Bavarian Karate Association V.
  • Berlin Karate Association V.
  • Karate Dachverband Land Brandenburg e. V.
  • Bremen Karate Association V.
  • Hamburg Karate Association V.
  • Hessian Association for Karate e. V.
  • Karate-Union Mecklenburg-Vorpommern e. V.
  • Karate Association Lower Saxony e. V.
  • Karate umbrella organization North Rhine-Westphalia e. V.
  • Rhineland-Palatinate Karate Association V.
  • Saarland Karate Association V.
  • Saxon Karate Association V.
  • Karate Association of Saxony-Anhalt e. V.
  • Karate Association Schleswig-Holstein e. V.
  • Thuringian Karate Association V.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Inventory survey 2019 (PDF) German Olympic Sports Confederation, accessed on May 19, 2020 .
  2. ^ Munzinger Archiv- Toni Dietl , accessed on November 3, 2013.
  3. Thomas Reisener: Fraud scandal endangers Karate World Cup. In: Rheinische Post. January 3, 2014; Patrick Hoffmann: Fraud scandal overshadows the Karate World Cup in Bremen Public Prosecutor Essen investigates two association officials / tournament in November allegedly not at risk. In: Bremer Nachrichten. 4th January 2014.
  4. Thomas Reisener: Fraud scandal endangers Karate World Cup. In: Rheinische Post. January 3, 2014.