Rüdiger Nickel

Rüdiger Nickel (born January 9, 1945 in Berlin ) is a German sports official ; he was an honorary member of the executive committee of the German Athletics Association (DLV).

Career in sport

Rüdiger Nickel was first a hockey player and then from 1961 to 1971 an active athlete . He was multiple Hessen champion in the middle distance and in all-around competitions and in 1966 German junior champion in middle distance running. Nickel started for the TG 1837 Hanau, SC Charlottenburg Berlin, Sportfreunde Siegen , Schwalbe Hanau, LG District Hanau and LAZ Hanau-Bruchköbel.

He then worked as a sports supervisor and chairman of the Offenbach / Hanau athletics district. From 1977 to 1979 he was chairman of the legal committee of the Hessian Athletics Association (HLV) and since 1979 youth and legal manager of the HLV. Furthermore, from 1981 to 1989 he was the spokesman for the regional youth watchdog in the DLV, then until 1993 the youth watchdog of the DLV and from 1991 to 1993 anti-doping officer of the DLV. From 1993 to 2004 he worked on a voluntary basis as a sports supervisor, chairman of the federal committee for competitive sports and vice-president of competitive sports in the DLV executive committee. As the first anti-doping officer of the DLV, Nickel was involved in the development and implementation of a doping control and punishment system in Germany as a result of the sensational doping proceedings against Katrin Krabbe , Grit Breuer , Silke Möller , Manuela Derr , Uta Pippig and Iris Biba .

On February 23, 2001, the DLV Association Council renamed the previous "Carl Diem Shield" to the DLV Honor Shield and the "Heinz Cavalier Prize" to the DLV Media Prize, largely due to his initiative. On the basis of documented quotations from Carl Diem and Heinz Cavalier from the time of National Socialism and before that, Rüdiger Nickel had proven the "unsuitability of their role model function as namesake" for the two highest DLV awards. On his initiative, the "Carl-Diem-Weg" was also renamed "Philipp-August-Schleißner-Weg" in his hometown.

From 1993 to 2004, Rüdiger Nickel was in charge of competitive sport in the DLV on a voluntary basis, initially as a sports warden and later as Vice President "Competitive Sports". He headed the national athletics team at the 1996, 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games, at the World and European Championships, as well as the World and European Cups, as well as international competitions and youth championships. Because of the poor performance of the track and field athletes at the 2003 World Championships in Paris and the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, he resigned from this position “out of sport-political responsibility”. His successor in the DLV Presidium was the sports scientist Prof. Dr. Eike Emrich .

Until 2004, Rüdiger Nickel was a member of the board of competitive sports in the German Sports Confederation . From 2005 he was an anti-doping advisor to the European Senior Athletics Association (EVAA), the “decathlon team” and the “proMASTERS” interest group for senior athletics in Germany, for which he developed the Findex anti-doping database. After all, he was on the board of the "Friends of Athletics" until 2015, which is particularly concerned with promoting young athletics.

Professional activities

Rüdiger Nickel works as a lawyer and - from 1985 to 2015 - also as a notary in Hanau . He is also a certified executor (AGT). After visiting schools in Berlin and Bonn, where he 1964 at the High State School (Hanau) , the High School from. This was followed by law studies in Berlin, Frankfurt and Marburg, the first state examination in 1969 and the second state examination in 1972. In the same year he joined the Hanau law firm Nickel, Fleischmann and Dröse . In 1994 he founded the law firm Nickel & Nickel with his wife Karin Nickel, a lawyer specializing in family law . Together with his wife - since 2007 also with daughter Nadja Nickel, specialist attorney for traffic law , notary since 2015, and since 2012 with son Götz Nickel ( specialist attorney for family law with a focus on inheritance and labor law) - he is primarily in the fields of traffic and criminal law as well as inheritance and sports law. He is a member of the Inheritance Law Working Group of the German Lawyers' Association and of the AGT Execution of Wills and Assets. After appropriate specialist training, he works as an executor. 2012 is a lawyer and notary a. D. Herbert Schächtele, specialist lawyer for labor law, joined the law firm and notary's office operating under the name "NICKEL • NICKEL • SCHÄCHTELE".

author

Rüdiger Nickel is the author of legal and sports policy, sports ethics and sports law treatises. In 2007 the two-volume “Anti-Doping Handbook” appeared, of which he is the editor together with Theo Rous.

Works

• Anti-Doping Handbook . Meyer & Meyer-Verlag, Aachen 2007.

1. Basics . ISBN 978-3-89899-186-5 .
2. Documents, rules, materials . ISBN 978-3-89899-187-2 .

• Image exploitation rights of athletes and national teams - from the perspective of a top sports association . In Marketing Rights in Sport - Leadership Academy Deutscher SportBund - 1999. ISBN 3-89152-852-3

• Issues related to accident regulation: Handbook for vehicle repair shops - Fuchs / Nickel / Rust / Otting - BVSK special edition - 1996

Web links

• Literature by and about Rüdiger Nickel in the catalog of the German National Library