Rainer Koch (sports official)

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Rainer Koch (2019)

Rainer Koch (born December 18, 1958 in Kiel ) is a German lawyer and football official . From November 9, 2015 to April 15, 2016 he was acting president of the German Football Association together with Reinhard Rauball . From April 2, 2019 to September 17, 2019, he again acted as interim president of the DFB with Rauball. Since November 2004 he has been President of the Bavarian Football Association, since October 2011 President of the South German Football Association and since October 2013 1st DFB Vice President for amateur football and matters of regional and state associations.

Professional career

After graduating from the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich and completing his military service, Koch studied law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1979 to 1984 and joined the Bavarian judicial service after completing his doctorate . After holding positions at various local courts, three years as the founding head of the legal department at the Saxon Administration College in Meißen and years as deputy head of the joint IT office of the Bavarian judiciary, Koch has been a judge at the Munich Higher Regional Court since 2008 and chairman since December 1, 2017 Judge at the Munich Higher Regional Court. Due to his diverse sport policy obligations, Koch switched to a part-time position in 2008. In the meantime he no longer practices as a judge.

Athletic career

Bavarian Football Association (BFV)

Koch discovered his passion for football as a player for the Munich suburbs Kirchheimer SC and TSV Poing. From 1977 to 1980 Koch was a D and C junior coach at Kirchheimer SC. Also in Kirchheim , Koch took over the youth management from 1989 to 1990. Koch's career at the Bavarian Football Association began as an active referee . From 1975 to 1986 he directed almost 1000 association games up to the Bayern League , at that time the third highest league, and was also employed as a referee observer from 1987 to 1989. At the same time he trained the A-youth of FC Falke Markt Schwaben, Koch had already acquired the coaching license B in 1982.

He started his career as an official in 1982 at the age of 24 as an assessor in the Munich District Referee Committee. He held this office until 1986. After a job-related break, Koch resumed his association work in the BFV in 1990 and became chairman of the youth sports court in the Upper Bavaria district . After six years he became an assessor in the Association Sports Court, the highest sports court in the BFV, which he chaired from 1998 to 2004. In November 2004, the first extraordinary Verbandstag the BFV chose the then 45-year-old as the successor of the selected for the DFB treasurer Heinrich Schmidhuber in Nuremberg unanimously elected president of the Bavarian Soccer Association. In this function, he was present at the district and district days, accelerated efforts against betting manipulation and strengthened the less prestigious leagues in the national association. At the following BFV Association Days in 2006, 2010 and 2014, Koch was unanimously re-elected. Most recently, he was unanimously re-elected for the 2018–2022 legislative period on May 5, 2018 at the 25th BFV Association Day in Bad Gögging.

South German Football Association (SFV)

In 2005, Rainer Koch joined the board of the South German Football Association (SFV) as Vice President . Since the election at the 7th Ordinary SFV Association Day in Kassel on October 22, 2011 , Koch has chaired the regional association, which is made up of the state associations in Bavaria, Hesse and Baden-Württemberg , as the successor to Rolf Hocke as president. On October 12, 2014, Koch was confirmed as president of the SFV for another four years at the 8th Ordinary SFV Association Day in Freiburg im Breisgau . Four years later (October 20, 2018) he was re-elected as SFV President at the 9th Ordinary SFV Association Day in Stuttgart.

German Football Association (DFB)

In 1996 Koch became an assessor at the sports court of the German Football Association (DFB), and he was elected chairman in 1998. In this function, Koch made a major contribution to clarifying the "Hoyzer case" in 2006. In addition, the court under him resolutely took action against racist abuses by football fans and imposed the highest fines in DFB history.

Koch was elected DFB Vice President for legal and statute issues in October 2007 at the DFB Association Day and subsequently resigned the chairmanship of the sports court. In his new role, too, he propagated a zero-tolerance strategy against racism and violence in football stadiums. After relevant information had been withheld from him in the affair of referee official Manfred Amerell , Koch gave up the responsibility for refereeing at the DFB, which had also been transferred to him, in February 2010. In November 2011, due to tensions with the then DFB President Theo Zwanziger , Koch swapped the department for legal and statute issues with the department for “Prevention, Integration, Leisure and Popular Sports”, which is the responsibility of Hessian Vice President Rolf Hocke . In March 2012, after Wolfgang Niersbach was elected DFB President, the departments were exchanged between Koch and Hocke. The delegates of the 41st Ordinary Bundestag of the German Football Association unanimously elected Koch on October 25, 2013 in Nuremberg as “1. Vice President Amateurs ”. In this function, Koch represents the interests of German amateur football and advocates constructive cooperation between professional and amateur football in the interests of the regional and state associations of the DFB. The chairmanship of the conference of the 21 state and five regional association presidents is linked to this position. This conference advises the DFB Presidium, the DFB Executive Board and the DFB Central Administration on all topics relating to amateur football.

After Wolfgang Niersbach's resignation as DFB President in November 2015, Koch and the other 1st DFB Vice President Reinhard Rauball became provisional DFB President in accordance with the statutes. Niersbach resigned due to possible bribe payments before the 2006 World Cup . On November 9th, 2015, Koch publicly appealed to Franz Beckenbauer : It was "high time he got involved more intensively in the clarification of the events." On April 15, 2016, Reinhard Grindel was named the new DFB at the extraordinary DFB Bundestag in Frankfurt. President elected. In the course of the regional league reform, which was decided on at the extraordinary Bundestag on December 7, 2017, the Bavarian regional league and third division clubs, together with the Bavarian Football Association, presented the so-called "Wendelsteiner template" in which they advocated the Maintaining the five-track regional league and discussing a changed promotion model. As an alternative, the "Wendelsteiner template" addressed the introduction of a four-track regional league and merging the Bavarian regional league with Saxony and Thuringia. For this proposal, Koch was heavily criticized in the media, especially by traditional East German clubs, although he had always spoken out in favor of preserving the five regional leagues.

On April 2, 2019, after the resignation of the previous DFB President Reinhard Grindel, Koch took over the post of DFB President together with the DFL President and 1st DFB Vice President Reinhard Rauball. The interim term of office ended with the Ordinary DFB Bundestag and the election of Fritz Keller as the new DFB President on September 27, 2019.

International football

Koch has been active in various functions for UEFA and FIFA since 2002. Initially, he was a member of the UEFA Control and Disciplinary Body for nine years, in which role he worked at the 2004 and 2008 European Championships. From 2015 until his election to the UEFA Executive Committee, Koch was a member of the UEFA Court of Appeal. He has also been a regular UEFA and FIFA match delegate since 2005 and was able to look back on more than 100 appointments from UEFA and FIFA to delegate assignments at international matches in the Champions League, Europa League, as well as European and World Cup qualifiers. Since March 2020, Rainer Koch has been the only German representative to be a member of the UEFA Executive Committee. In 2017 he was appointed by UEFA as one of two European representatives on the FIFA Governance Committee, in which he is primarily responsible for liaising between the committee and the FIFA Human Rights Advisory Board.

Sports policy program

Koch's sports policy agenda in Bavaria aims to preserve the club landscape that is indispensable for football through modernization, campaigns and image work for amateur football as well as maintaining the unity of professional and amateur football. At the 2010 BFV Association Day, for example, he initiated the “Pro Amateurfußball” campaign with qualification and further training opportunities for the club base. As head of a project team, Koch developed "BFV.TV", the most popular online sports show for amateur football. In 2013 the format was awarded the Bavarian Sports Prize in the “Innovation in Sport” category. Since his time as a sports judge, Koch has stood for the resolute fight against violence, racism, pyrotechnics and all forms of discrimination in football stadiums. In 2013, together with the chairmen of the legal bodies of the DFB, he developed a 10-point program for sports jurisdiction, with which the investigation of perpetrators should come to the fore against the clubs' no-fault liability. In spring 2018 Koch campaigned for the DFB to open up to the topic of "eSports". But he closed games that glorified violence such as Counterstrike or the like. For this reason, a uniform line on the subject of "eSoccer" was defined, the 21 national associations of the DFB only want to support football-related games and formats. The Bavarian Football Association then anchored the topic of "eSoccer" on its association day on May 5, 2018 as a further facet of football in its statutes.

politics

Koch sat from 1990 to 2020 for the SPD in the council of Poing and in 2009 by his party to the Federal Assembly sent.

family

Koch is married with a daughter and has lived in Poing since 1964.

Awards

2014: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon

Web links

Commons : Rainer Koch  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

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  14. Maximum sentence for Hansa Rostock .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 15, 2006.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.sueddeutsche.de  
  15. DFB imposed a severe penalty against Erfurt . In: Focus , August 21, 2008.
  16. DFB Vice President Koch is relinquishing responsibility for referees . In: Spiegel Online , February 10, 2010.
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  29. Racism, violence, trouble with indoor soccer: BFV President Koch speaks plain language. Interview. heimatsport.de, October 29, 2013, accessed on May 15, 2014 .
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