Raphael Beckmann

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Raphael (Ralf) Beckmann (* 1957 / 1958 ) is a German sports official .

Life

Beckmann grew up in Hagen, passed his Abitur  at the local Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium and played in the 2nd basketball league for the BG Hagen team, with which he was promoted to the basketball league in 1980 . For reasons of study he moved to Cologne . He was temporarily employed as managing director of the basketball Bundesliga club BSC Saturn Cologne . In 1999, the qualified sports teacher and business administrator participated, among others, together with Walter Tokarski and Hans Dieter Horch  from the German Sport University Cologne in the study “Qualification and employment potential in sport in a district in North Rhine-Westphalia”. At the end of 2000 Beckmann, who was active in marketing, was employed by the Basketball Bundesliga as a consultant and crisis helper for the economically troubled Bundesliga basketball team Metabox Braunschweig . He was credited with helping the team "decisively out of the greatest need".

In August 2002 he took up the position of operations manager at the sports facility and swimming pool company of the City of Dresden . He held this office until August 31, 2008. During his tenure, among other things, the damage to urban sports facilities caused by the floods in 2002 had to be removed and he managed the implementation of an integrated sports development plan. In addition, the Dresden sports facility and swimming pool company was the developer of the EnergieVerbund Arena ice and ball sports center during his tenure and brought the 2008 Chess Olympiad  to the city. However, his work was also subject to criticism. From 2004 he also sat on the board of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Sportämter (ADS) and was deputy chairman from 2006. This activity ended when he left the Dresden sports facility and pool company.

On September 1, 2008 Beckmann became General Secretary of the German Disabled Sports Association (DBS) in Duisburg  , he remained in office until the end of August 2012.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About us / this is how it all started. In: BG HAGEN. Retrieved May 26, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b By Rainer Hofeditz: Flight to Beijing to take office. August 29, 2008. Retrieved May 26, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Beckmann new DBS general secretary. In: bild.de. Retrieved May 26, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Hans-Dieter Horch; Walter Tokarski; Rolf Meier; Raphael Beckmann; Kurt Sombert: Qualification and employment potential in sport in a district in North Rhine-Westphalia. In: sportwissenschaft.de. Retrieved May 26, 2019 .
  5. ↑ RP online: Financial gap of almost two million marks: Sponsors should save basketball in Braunschweig. Retrieved May 26, 2019 .
  6. ↑ https://www.schoenen-dunk.de/news_a39_StadtSport-Braunschweig_Kooperation-mit-ALBA-Vermarkter.htm
  7. ↑ Next, please: Dresden's new sports facility manager should leave again. Retrieved May 26, 2019 .
  8. ^ The boards of the Association of German Sports Offices (ADS). In: ads-sportverwaltung.de. Retrieved May 26, 2019 .
  9. ↑ DBS office since September 1, 2012 with new interim management. In: Disabled Sports in Saxony, 03/2012 edition. Saxon Disabled and Rehabilitation Sports Association (SBV), accessed on May 26, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Beckmann, Raphael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beckmann, Ralf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports official
DATE OF BIRTH 1957 or 1958