Sports region Stuttgart

SportRegion Stuttgart e. V.
purpose	Improving inter-municipal cooperation in the field of sport
Chair:	Matthias Klopfer , Gunter H. Fahrion (Deputy Chairman), Monica Wüllner (Deputy Chairman)
Establishment date:	May 14, 1996
Number of members:	53 municipalities, 38 sports associations, six sports circles as well as the Stuttgart Olympic base and the Stuttgart Region Association
Seat :	Stuttgart
Website:	www.sportregion-stuttgart.de

The SportRegion Stuttgart e. V. was founded in 1996 with the aim of improving inter-municipal cooperation in the field of sport. Today the SportRegion Stuttgart belongs to 53 municipalities, 38 sports associations, six sports circles as well as the Olympic base Stuttgart and the Verband Region Stuttgart (status: October 2014).

The 11-person executive board consists of the mayor, presidents of sports associations, sports district chairmen and a representative of the Stuttgart Region Association . The chairman of the SportRegion Stuttgart is Matthias Klopfer (Lord Mayor of the city ​​of Schorndorf ).

With the new structures created in 2006, the SportRegion should make an important contribution to regional sport development and location marketing in the Stuttgart region . The office with the managing director Michael Bofinger is located in the SpOrt Stuttgart, the sports, education and service center in Neckarpark .

The main tasks of the SportRegion Stuttgart are to advise and support municipalities, sports associations and sports clubs in the acquisition, organization and preparation of regionally important sports events. In addition, there is advertising, public relations and lobbying for sport in the Stuttgart region and the promotion of regional sport development through innovative ideas and projects. Another main task is coordinating appointments and dialog between the individual members. The SportRegion intends to further improve the region's image in the future through attractive sporting events, a targeted sports development strategy and the expansion of top and popular sport.

History of the SportRegion Stuttgart

Between 1986 and 1991 the working group “Olympic Application Stuttgart Area” dealt with a possible application from Stuttgart for the Olympic Games . This working group led u. a. to an intermunicipal cooperation in the region. There were three commissions that dealt with the areas of “sports technology”, “infrastructure” and “culture”.

In January 1991, the association “Intercommunal Culture Promotion Region Stuttgart” was founded as the “successor” of the Culture Commission (short form: “KulturRegion Stuttgart”). At that time there was still no club formation in the sports sector, in the “Working Group Sports in the Region” the cooperation was continued in loose form.

In 1995, discussions in the field of sport were intensified again. This led to the "SportRegion Stuttgart" being founded on May 14, 1996 with the aim of improving inter-municipal cooperation in the field of sport. The inaugural meeting took place in the large meeting room of the Stuttgart city hall. Ludwigsburg's Lord Mayor Christof Eichert was elected first chairman . The founding members included 32 municipalities, 22 sports associations and the six sports circles. It was decided that Gunter H. Fahrion from the Stuttgart Sports Office should be responsible for the management. In 2002 the Lord Mayor of Sindelfingen , Bernd Vöhringer, succeeded Christof Eichert as Chairman of the SportRegion. In 2005 it was decided that the SportRegion Stuttgart should get a full-time office. On May 2, 2006, the board of the SportRegion Stuttgart elected Marc-Oliver Kochan as the first full-time managing director. At the beginning of 2007, the SportRegion Stuttgart moved into its new, approximately 70 square meter premises in the “SpOrt Stuttgart” in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt. In 2008, Michael Bofinger, a new managing director, took over management of the office. In February 2012 Matthias Klopfer succeeded Bernd Vöhringer as Chairman.

Members of the SportRegion Stuttgart

The members of the SportRegion are 52 municipalities, 38 sports associations, the six sports circles as well as the Stuttgart Olympic base and the Stuttgart Region Association . The member municipalities represent almost 65 percent of the Stuttgart region , the sports associations represent around 85 percent of the active people and almost all sports clubs in the region.

Municipalities

Aichtal Backnang Bad Boll Bad Ditzenbach Bad Liebenzell Bad Ueberkingen Bad Urach Benningen am Neckar Beuren Bietigheim-Bissingen Boeblingen Bönnigheim Cleebronn Ditzingen Ehningen Esslingen am Neckar Fellbach Filderstadt

Gäufelden Gerlingen Goeppingen Herrenberg Kirchheim unter Teck Korntal-Münchingen Kornwestheim Leinfelden-Echterdingen Leonberg Ludwigsburg Marbach am Neckar Metzingen Murrhardt Nufringen Nürtingen Plochingen Rechberghausen

Remseck am Neckar Reutlingen Schorndorf Schwäbisch Gmünd Schwäbisch Hall Sersheim Sindelfingen Stuttgart Tübingen Vaihingen an der Enz Waiblingen Waldenbuch Because of the city Wine town Welzheim Wernau Winnenden Wolfschlugen

Sports associations

American Football and Cheerleading Association Baden-Württemberg e. V. Baden-Württemberg Badminton Association V. Baden-Württemberg Baseball and Softball Association V. Baden-Württemberg Triathlon Association V. Basketball Association Baden-Württemberg e. V. Billiard Association Baden-Württemberg e. V. Boule, Boccia and Pétanque Association Baden-Württemberg e. V. Boxing Association Baden-Württemberg e. V. Ice Sports Association Baden-Württemberg e. V. Handball Association Württemberg e. V. Hockey Association Baden-Württemberg e. V. Canoe Association Württemberg e. V. State Sailing Association Baden-Württemberg e. V. Baden-Württemberg regional association of the DAV e. V. Rugby Association Baden-Württemberg e. V. Chess Association Württemberg e. V. Swabian Ski Association V. Swabian Gymnastics Association V. Swimming Association Württemberg e. V.

Squash Rackets Landesverband Baden-Württemberg e. V. Tanzsportverband Baden-Württemberg e. V. Table tennis association Württemberg-Hohenzollern e. V. Volleyball-Landesverband Württemberg e. V. Württembergischer Disabled and Rehabilitation Sports Association e. V. Württemberg Fencing Association V. Württemberg Football Association V. Württembergischer Golfverband e. V. Württembergischer Judo-Verband e. V. Württembergischer Kegler- und Bowling-Verband e. V. Württemberg State Association for Diving e. V. Württembergischer Leichtathletik-Verband e. V. Württembergischer Equestrian Association V. Württembergischer Radsportverband e. V. Württembergischer Lawn Power Sport and Tug of War Association e. V. Württemberg Wrestling Association V. Württembergischer Rollsport- und Inline-Verband e. V. Württembergischer Schützenverband 1850 e. V. Württemberg Tennis Association V.

Sports circles

• Sportkreis Böblingen e. V.
• Sportkreis Esslingen e. V.
• Sportkreis Göppingen e. V.
• Sportkreis Ludwigsburg e. V.
• Sportkreis Rems-Murr e. V.
• Sportkreis Stuttgart e. V.

Others

• Association Region Stuttgart
• Olympiastützpunkt Stuttgart e. V.

Board of the SportRegion Stuttgart

The board of the association consists of the chairman, two deputy chairmen, up to seven further members and the treasurer. The chairman and his deputy form the board in the sense of § 26 BGB . The chairman and his deputy are entitled to represent the association in and out of court. Everyone is solely authorized to represent.

Current board of directors

The following persons belong to the executive board of the SportRegion Stuttgart.

Office	Surname	function
Chairman	Matthias Klopfer	Lord Mayor Schorndorf
Deputy Chairman	Gunter H. Fahrion	President of the Württemberg Lawn Power Sports and Tug of War Association V.
vice-chairman	Monica Wüllner	Regional Councilor, representing the Association Region Stuttgart
Treasurer	Wilfried Scheible	President of the Baden-Württemberg Dance Sports Association
Board member	Jürgen Scholz	Mayor Sersheim , President of the Württemberg Athletics Association
Board member	Andreas Hesky	Regional Councilor, Lord Mayor Waiblingen , Chairman of the Regional Marketing and Tourism
Board member	Joachim Wolf	Mayor Korntal-Münchingen
Board member	Günther Kuhnigk	Head of the Office for Sport and Exercise of the State Capital Stuttgart
Board member	Fred-Jürgen Stradinger	President of the Sportkreis Stuttgart
Board member	Matthias Müller	President of the sports district Ludwigsburg
Board member	Wolfgang Drexler	President of the Swabian Gymnastics Federation

Previous chair

The SportRegion Stuttgart has had three chairmen since it was founded.

year	Surname	function
1996-2002	Christof Eichert	Mayor Ludwigsburg
2002–2012	Bernd Voehringer	Lord Mayor of Sindelfingen
since 02/2012	Matthias Klopfer	Lord Mayor Schorndorf

logo

The SportRegion Stuttgart also has its own logo. This is based on elements of the logo of the Stuttgart Region Association . It contains six “waves”, which symbolize the districts of Böblingen , Esslingen , Göppingen , Ludwigsburg , Rems-Murr and Stuttgart , all of which are part of the Stuttgart region . The logo is intended to symbolize the close cooperation under the umbrella of the SportRegion. The spelling “SportRegion” stands for the interaction between sport and politics, that is, between the sports associations and the municipalities.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ at the top of the SportRegion ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - on the homepage of the Swabian Gymnastics Federation. Retrieved June 6, 2012. 
2. ↑ Office of the SportRegion Stuttgart - on the homepage of the SportRegion Stuttgart. Retrieved June 6, 2012.
3. ↑ Marc-Oliver Kochan becomes managing director of the SportRegion Stuttgart - on the homepage of the Württemberg Athletics Association. Retrieved June 6, 2012.
4. ↑ on SportRegion Stuttgart ( Memento of the original from November 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - on the homepage of the City Association for Sport Ludwigsburg. Retrieved June 6, 2012. 

Web links

• Homepage of the SportRegion Stuttgart
• Interview with Matthias Klopfer (Chairman of the SportRegion Stuttgart) from April 1, 2012 in the Stuttgarter Zeitung
• Cooperation between the SportRegion Stuttgart and the Association for Sport Economics and Sport Management in Germany
• Announcement of the table tennis association Württemberg-Hohenzollern about the sponsorship of the SportRegion Stuttgart for Liang Qiu