Thomas Puetz

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Thomas Pütz (born February 22, 1966 ) is a German boxing sports official and entrepreneur .

Life

In 1985, Pütz completed his school education with a business diploma. He worked as a doorman in Kaltenkirchen and founded a company for security services and personal protection there in 1987, with which he was active in discos , at parties, sporting events and for the protection of individuals, buildings and facilities. From the end of the 1990s, his company regularly provided security for professional boxing evenings and worked for years with the Hamburg boxing stable Universum . In addition, Pütz and his employees were also responsible for safety at the 2001 Alpine World Ski Championships . Later his company, which was converted into a stock corporation and which Pütz continued to manage as CEO, opened branches in Berlin , Hamburg , Kiel and Frankfurt am Main .

Thanks to the support of the Universum boxing stable, Pütz, who was an amateur boxer up to the age of 21, was elected as the successor to Bodo Eckmann as President of the Association of German Professional Boxers (BDB) in April 2010 . According to Pütz, the then boss of the Universum boxing stable, Klaus-Peter Kohl , asked him if he wanted to stand as a candidate. He was naive when he said yes, said Pütz. The vote on the BDB president had to be repeated because of a formal error. An objection was raised against the election, Pütz was accused of a conflict of interest between the honorary position as BDB president and his work as a security service provider at boxing events. A court overturned the election. In May 2011, Pütz was elected BDB President in another vote. Pütz set up the financially troubled association from a commercial point of view, implemented "rigid austerity measures" and, according to his own statement, saved it from collapse.

In 2015, Pütz was honored for his work by the boxing association WBC . In 2017 he was awarded the Kaltenkirchener Ring entrepreneurship award for trade, craft and industry. In November 2018, Pütz called for doping to be prosecuted “by the state”. The Bund Deutscher Berufsboxer (Association of German Professional Boxers) “has financial limits when it comes to persecution,” he emphasized.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Entrepreneur award for Thomas Pütz. In: kn-online.de. Retrieved September 25, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c Gunnar Meinhardt : Ready to rumble: Boxboom Germany. Gunnar Meinhardt in conversation with the stars . New Life, 2013.
  3. ^ Company history - Pütz Security AG. Retrieved September 25, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b Christopher Herbst: Thomas Pütz: Germany's top boxer. December 12, 2011, accessed on September 25, 2019 (German).
  5. ^ Arne Leyenberg: Bund Deutscher Berufsboxer: Who pays, creates . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed September 25, 2019]).
  6. ↑ : Court: Boxing association election invalid. Retrieved September 25, 2019 .
  7. ^ Pütz in the third attempt President of the professional boxers - STIMME.de. Retrieved September 25, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Boxer boss Pütz honored in China. In: kn-online.de. Retrieved September 25, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Björn Jensen: "Doping is the biggest problem in boxing". November 17, 2018, accessed on September 25, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Pütz, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German boxing official and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1966