National Olympic Committee for Germany

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The National Olympic Committee for Germany ( NOK ) was the umbrella organization for Olympic sports in the Federal Republic of Germany from 1949 to 2006 . From 1979 to 1990 the official name was the National Olympic Committee of the Federal Republic of Germany . As the NOK, it represented German interests in the International Olympic Committee until it was dissolved .

history

Historical development of German sports umbrella organizations and National Olympic Committees

After the German Olympic Committee, which existed before the Second World War, was dissolved in 1946, a (provisional) German Olympic Committee was founded again in June 1947 under the leadership of Adolf Friedrich zu Mecklenburg . Since it did not yet represent a recognized state (the Federal Republic had not yet been founded), international recognition was denied.

After the constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany was completed in May 1949 , the prerequisites for the establishment of a National Olympic Committee (NOK) were given. On September 24, 1949, the National Olympic Committee for Germany was founded in Bonn , which was recognized by the IOC as the sole representative for all of Germany. H. for the territory of the then Federal Republic and the Soviet occupation zone , but not the French-occupied Saarland , for which the independent National Olympic Committee of the Saarland was recognized by the IOC. After the Saarland participated as a separate team in Helsinki in 1952 , the Saarlanders were able to join the Federal Republic in several steps from 1955. The athletes took part in the all-German team as early as 1956 . The previously independent NOK of the Saarland dissolved in February 1957 or became part of the German NOK.

The West German claim to sole representation or mandate was not recognized by the authorities of the GDR , which was founded on October 7, 1949 , where a National Olympic Committee for East Germany was formed in 1951 under the leadership of Kurt Edel . However, this was not recognized by the IOC, as there can be no two NOK per country. All German athletes were supposed to participate in a joint German team under the leadership of the West German NOK, but this was rejected by the GDR officials. Thus, in 1952, no athletes from the East took part, it was only in 1956 that the GDR gave in and sent athletes to the German team. For the formation of the all-German team for the 1956 Olympic Games , the West German NOK for Germany and the East German NOK jointly received the IOC-awarded Alberto Bonacossa trophy in 1958 .

The division of Germany was exacerbated by the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1960. After the Olympic Games in 1964 , the formation of a joint team was no longer practicable for Germany in the sense of the West German NOK, especially since it was foreseeable that the majority of GDR athletes would qualify in the eliminations before the Olympics. It was not until 1965 that the NOK for East Germany was recognized by the IOC as the NOK of the GDR. In 1968, separate teams were entered, but with the same Olympic flag and Beethoven anthem. It wasn't until 1972 that both teams were symbolically separated.

In accordance with the IOC Rule 24e was 1979 National Olympic Committee for Germany in the National Olympic Committee of Germany officially renamed. The IOC also confirmed that West Berlin belonged to the NOK of the FRG.

On 15 May 1980 the NOC of Germany decided because of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan the 1980 Olympics boycott in Moscow. In return, the GDR's NOK decided to boycott the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles .

In view of the looming German reunification , a steering committee was formed, which met for the first time in Berlin on July 9, 1990. In the Schöneberg town hall there, the general assembly of the NOK of the FRG decided on November 17th the change in the statutes proposed by the steering committee to unite the two German NOKs. At the same time, the general assembly of the NOK of the GDR in the Rotes Rathaus in Berlin decided that its statute should lose its validity on December 31, 1990 and that no legal succession should take place. This was followed by a joint meeting of both German NOKs in the Reichstag in Berlin and the unification of the organizations in the NOK for Germany, which initially (until the end of 1993) maintained an office in Berlin-Wannsee.

On May 20, 2006, the National Olympic Committee for Germany merged with the German Sports Confederation to form the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB). On December 10, 2005, the German NOK decided to dissolve itself.

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