State Sports Association of Hesse

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State Sports Association of Hesse
legal form registered association
founding June 1, 1946
Seat Frankfurt am Main
Chair Rolf Mueller
Managing directors Andreas Klages
Members 2.1 million members in 7,600 clubs
Website www.landessportbund-hessen.de
Office in Frankfurt

The Landessportbund Hessen eV (lsb h), based in Frankfurt am Main, is the umbrella organization for organized sport in Hessen. With 2.1 million members in around 7,600 sports clubs, 23 sports circles, 59 sports associations and 14 associations with special tasks, the lsb h is one of the 16 state sports federations of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB). The lsb h is committed to popular, competitive and youth sports, provides services, provides impulses in all areas of sport, advises and promotes its sports clubs. The current president is Rolf Müller.

Fields of work

Business areas

The State Sports Association of Hesse is divided into the following business areas:

  • Club management : Tasks are the financial support and advice of the clubs, the financial support for trainers, construction measures, sports equipment as well as personal and club honors, perception of changes in membership of clubs, associations and sports circles (new admissions, departures, mergers) and support of the state committee law, taxes and insurance. Steffen Kipper is the head of the division.
  • Sport development : Tasks are the interdisciplinary new and further development of sport offers, the positioning of organized sport on the growing professional health market, the training, further education and training of the instructors and clubs in the field of health, inclusion and sports badges as well as advising the clubs on structural issues Changes and new developments. The director is Gundi Friedrich.
  • School, education and personnel development : He takes care of the training and further education offers with and without license acquisition and the supplementary, additional training and training with special objectives in cooperation with the Sportjugend Hessen and the Bildungsakademie. In addition, this business area deals with the subject of “Schools and Clubs”. The division manager is Frank Obst.
  • Competitive sport : The field of activity extends from the coordination of state-wide measures in the field of competitive sport promotion to the formation of uniform organizational forms in the implementation of training and course measures, advising sports circles and clubs on the establishment of sports facilities for competitive sport, searching for and promoting talent, the coordination of talent promotion measures through to financial support for the associations and the intensification of sports medical care for E and D squad athletes. In addition, the division oversees the state program "Talent Search-Talent Promotion". The division manager is Thomas Neu.
  • Communication and Marketing : The tasks include the publication of the magazine and the report edition "Sport in Hessen", the information of the public about relevant processes of the lsb h, the maintenance and expansion of the internet presence as well as the social media activities of the state sports association Hessen, the Development and implementation of the external presentation of the lsb h as well as the preparation of the participation of the sport in public events, e.g. the Hessentag . The department is headed by Ralf Wächter.
  • Sports infrastructure : He takes care of advice on environmental issues and sports facility development such as water and energy saving in sports, construction and renovation measures and schoolyard design, the training of instructors and employees of clubs, associations and sports circles in the above-mentioned topics and publication the handbook series "Future-oriented sports facility development". Jens Prüller is the leader.
  • Finance and personnel management : His tasks include handling the lsb h's finances, personnel management, the sports school, advising clubs, associations and sports circles on taxes, questions about donation processing and contributions, as well as IT in the club and inventory. Business area manager is Sebastian Mader.

Other tasks are carried out by the Hesse Olympic Training Center, the Hesse Sports Youth and the Hesse State Sports Association's educational academy as well as the North Hesse Qualification and Advice Center and the Hesse Sports Foundation.

Sports youth Hessen

The Sportjugend Hessen in the Landessportbund Hessen eV is a sport, social and sociopolitical youth association in Hessen. It is a member association of the German Sports Youth and the Hessian Youth Association and has a good network with many other providers of extracurricular youth education and youth work. It represents the interests of the children, adolescents and young adults of the Hessian sports clubs and is one of the leading youth organizations in German sport. Sportjugend Hessen maintains two high-profile youth education institutions in Wetzlar and on the Edersee. Jürgen Herget is the managing director.

Olympic base in Hessen

The Olympiastützpunkt (OSP) Hessen is an institution funded by the federal, state and local authorities for cross-sport advice and support for young and top athletes in the Olympic and Paralympic sports. It has been sponsored by the Landessportbund Hessen eV since 1992. Currently, more than 650 athletes (of which approx. 350 in the regional catchment area and approx. 300 via central measures) from around 20 sports are supported at the OSP Hessen. The currently eight federal bases for Olympic sports play a prominent role. The range of services of the OSP Hessen includes in particular career advice / dual careers, training sciences, athletic and rehab training, physiotherapy, nutritional advice, psychotherapy and sports coaching as well as sports medicine support. Werner Schaefer is the head of OSP Hessen.

Educational academy

The tasks of the Bildungsakademie include the promotion of adult education through further training in various areas, the promotion and support of the lsb h, its clubs and associations, the teaching of sport as a lifelong content and the activation of non-organized sport as well as the conception of personnel development and the qualification of employees. Sabine Roth is the managing director and educational director.

Management and office

The office of the Landessportbund Hessen is in the Otto-Fleck-Schneise, directly in the Frankfurt city forest . The Commerzbank-Arena , the German Football Association and the German Gymnastics Association are in the immediate vicinity . The general manager is Andreas Klages.

Structure and presidium of the State Sports Association of Hesse

The Executive Committee currently has the following members:

  • Rolf Müller , President
  • Lutz Arndt, Vice President Competitive Sports
  • Ralf-Rainer Klatt, Vice President Sports Development
  • Juliane Kuhlmann, Vice President Children's and Youth Sports, Chairwoman of the Sports Youth Hessen
  • Susanne Lapp, Vice President Communication and Marketing
  • Helmut Meister, Vice President Financial Management
  • Frank Weller, Vice President Club Management and Sports Infrastructure
  • Heinz Zielinski, Vice President Education and Personnel Development, Preschool, School and University
  • Andreas Klages, General Manager

History of the State Sports Association of Hesse

The logo of the lsb h

In May 1946 Heinz Lindner received the order from the American military government to invite to a conference in which the reorganization of sport in Hesse was to be dealt with. The conference took place on June 1, 1946 in Mörfelden near Frankfurt a. M., instead of and at the end of this conference, the establishment of the state sports federation was decided. Heinz Lindner was elected the first president of the sports association by representatives of the sports associations and sports districts. In April 1947, the State Sports Association of Hesse rented a house in Goethestrasse in Frankfurt , which initially served as an office. The main task of the State Sports Association of Hesse in the first few years was primarily to train instructors for the sports activities of the clubs. In May 1954 the decision was made to build its own sports school in Frankfurt am Main , and in November 1957 the foundation stone was laid in the Frankfurt city forest.

In December 1963, the first trainer training with a license examination was completed; to date, well over 20,000 people have been licensed as trainers. The financial support of the clubs by the Sportbund started in 1966 and was thus an important part of the continuous growth. The new office and the sports school were completed in 1975 in the Otto-Fleck-Schneise in the Frankfurt city forest, the office in Goethestrasse could no longer be used due to lack of space. In 1985 the State Sports Association of Hesse took part in the Hessentag for the first time . In 2000 the lsb h received a seat and vote in the broadcasting council of the Hessischer Rundfunk ; this requirement has been made since the company was founded in 1946. In 2001, the promotion of sport was included as a state goal in the Hessian state constitution and thus equated with other state goals. Today, a third of all Hessians belong to a sports club that is a member of the state sports association.

The sports education facilities of the State Sports Association of Hesse

In the "central home of Hessian sports", the sports school and educational facility in the Otto-Fleck-Schneise in Frankfurt, seminars, courses, training and further education are offered. It is also a training facility for high-performance sport in Hessen. The sports school has 92 guest rooms, various training and conference rooms of various sizes and a sports restaurant. With three large sports halls (each divisible into three segments), a multi-purpose hall, a swimming pool (4 lanes of 50 m; also divisible into 8 lanes of 25 m), a teaching pool, a weight room, a running diagnostic track, etc., it offers optimal training conditions.

The state sports association includes two other sports education facilities in Sensenstein (near Kassel) and Wetzlar as well as a nature camp on the Edersee . Courses, advanced training and education are also offered there, and clubs can also be used for training camps.

The magazine and the report edition Sport in Hessen

The communication and marketing division of the State Sports Association of Hessen publishes the magazine and the report edition Sport in Hessen alternately every two weeks . The magazine edition deals with cross-sport topics such as sport and health, sport and politics, inclusion in sport, etc. In the report edition, reports from the Hessian sports circles and sports associations are published. Sport in Hessen is sent to all sports circles, associations and clubs in the lsb h , but can also be freely subscribed to.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Data and facts. In: landessportbund-hessen.de. Retrieved December 18, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Landessportbund Hessen: We about us. Presidium and management . Online at www.landessportbund-hessen.de. Retrieved September 29, 2018.