Jan Pommer

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Jan Pommer (born September 19, 1970 ) is a German lawyer and sports manager.

School, education and family

After passing the Abitur examination in Oldenburg , Pommer studied law and art history at universities in Würzburg , Freiburg , Salamanca ( Castile-León / Spain ) and Cologne . In Oldenburg, Pommer played basketball as a schoolboy . He is married and has two children.

Professional Activities

In the period from June 1997 to May 1999, Pommer initially worked as a trainee lawyer and, after passing the second state examination, also as an employed attorney in the law firm of Cornelius and Thiel in Cologne. He worked for the communications agency Bob Bomliz Group (formerly Sponsor Partners) in June 1999 as legal advisor , authorized signatory and head of sponsoring .

On April 1, 2005, Pommer was appointed managing director of BBL GmbH Gesellschaft der Basketball-Bundesliga , based in Cologne . From September 1, 2015 to December 31, 2016, he was Managing Director of Deutsche Sport Marketing GmbH alongside Axel Acht and was primarily responsible for the area of ​​digital media and the development of new marketing models.

From the beginning of January 2017 to the end of 2018, Pommer was Vice President Sports Affairs at Turtle Entertainment . These are operated by the eSports company Electronic Sports League .

At the beginning of January 2019, Pommer switched to horse racing. As managing director of the affiliated companies of the Directorate for Thoroughbred Breeding and Races eV , the umbrella organization of German horse racing , he is responsible for the operational business and the overarching marketing of the sport, which should move more into the focus of the public.

More functions

From May 2012 to the end of 2015, Pommer was Vice President of the Association of Sports Sponsoring Providers (VSA). He is a deputy member of the representative assembly of the administrative trade association . In addition, he is a member of the executive committee of the sports law group in the German Bar Association.

From 2009 to 2015 Pommer represented the interests of the BBL in the ' Initiative Profisport Deutschland '; until 2010 he was their deputy spokesman. In June 2010 he was reappointed to the Executive Board at the General Assembly of the ULEB Euroleague and was elected chairman of the licensing working group. Also until 2015 he was a board member of the European league association ULEB (Union of the European Leagues of Basketball).

public perception

Pommer was named “Sport Manager of the Year” by the trade magazine “Horizont” on October 28, 2010 in Frankfurt as part of the German Sports Sponsoring Days. The jury recognized Pommers work for the basketball league.

In 2011, after the 37th FIBA ​​European Championships , in August and September in Lithuania , he was quoted in the German media as saying “These people should have their mouth washed out with soap ”. The statement was made by him in a context in which he tried to fend off the criticism of the performance of DBB national player Dirk Nowitzki at the European Championships in Lithuania , which had been put forward by various parties .

There was also great interest in the German sports public that Pommer informed about the goal of BBL GmbH to have developed its own league by 2020 in such a way that it would then be “ at the 7th Sponsors Club Manager Summits” on November 14, 2011 in Cologne's Rheinenergiestadion. be the strongest league in Europe ”. The Beko BBL managing director wants to operationalize this project with a “ business plan ” and a “clear mission statement ”. In this context, he had not commented on the targeted development of German basketball players, in the breadth of the sport and in the top performers, as a mandatory prerequisite for a desired "performance explosion".

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jan Pommer - Appointment as managing director of BBL GmbH. Tagesspiegel website, article 'One from the outside', January 30, 2005. Retrieved December 16, 2011.
  2. ↑ Deutsche Sport Marketing (DSM) expands executive suite. ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , German Sports Marketing. Retrieved September 24, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dsm-olympia.de
  3. ↑ PresseBox (c) 2002-2017: Jan Pommer appointed as new Director Team & Federation Relations - Turtle Entertainment GmbH - press release. Retrieved October 13, 2017 .
  4. ↑ German Racing: Sports marketing specialist switches to horse racing . In: German Racing. German Racing, October 13, 2018, accessed on October 13, 2018 .
  5. ^ Association of sports sponsoring providers is formed. Horizon Online website.Retrieved June 15, 2012
  6. ↑ About us Website Initiative Profisport. Retrieved December 16, 2011.
  7. ^ Sports business awards for Felix Magath, Jan Pommer and Red Bull. Website Horizont Online. Accessed on June 14, 2012
  8. ↑ Basketball EM 2011: Now it's full - Jan Pommer. Spiegel Online website, article September 9, 2011. Retrieved December 16, 2011.
  9. ↑ Basketball: German Association fights for superstar Nowitzki - Jan Pommer. World Online website (Axel Springer Verlag). Retrieved December 16, 2011.
  10. ↑ Basketball Bundesliga wants to be top in Europe in 2020 - Jan Pommer, Managing Director of Beko BBL. Schwäbische Zeitung Online website, article on November 14, 2011. Accessed December 16, 2016.
  11. ↑ Professional sport - BBL wants to be top in Europe in 2020  ( 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. - Jan Pommer, managing director of Beko BBL. Website Nordwest-Zeitung Oldenburg. Retrieved December 16, 2016.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.nwz-inside.de  

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SURNAME Pommer, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH 19th September 1970