Simon Haldemann takes over the position of managing director at BSV Bern. The former co-director of the Gurten Festival was a junior Swiss champion.
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–Simon Haldemann is the new managing director of BSV Bern.
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In Bern he is known as one of the makers of the Gurten Festival. Up until last year, Simon Haldemann worked for the music happening on Bern’s local mountain for almost 25 years, he was HR manager, head of food and beverage, head of sponsorship and at the last festival to date, 2019, co-head of the event. In autumn 2020 he left the organization for personal reasons.
The 47-year-old always remained a handball player at heart. As a young player, he won the Swiss championship title in the Inter-A class (U-20) with HBC Muri-Gümligen in 1992. Later he was in this club – which after several merger steps later merged with BSV Bern – also member of the board and played for Muri-Gümligen in the first division.
“I still have my best friends in the handball scene,” says Haldemann. In the future he will also be involved in the sport professionally. From May 1st he will be in the service of BSV Bern. For two months he will be introduced to the job by the previous managing director Achim Dähler; on July 1st he takes over the post entirely.
Passed through
Since leaving the Gurten Festival, Haldemann had been trying to reorient himself. He was asked by those responsible for the BSV and was immediately positive about getting involved with the Bernese. “I’m basically going back to my roots,” he says. The BSV Bern is an excellently managed organization with great potential. “The hall is perfect, the Sport for Kids youth development foundation does good work for young talent, and the economic basis is also good,” says Haldemann. A through ball was passed to him when he was considered for the post of managing director. “It was clear to me pretty quickly that I wanted to do that. A wonderful circle on my long handball past is coming full circle, and I am very happy and proud to work in this well-anchored and emotional environment and to contribute my part to the whole. ”
In the Gümliger ball sports hall, the games will not take place on the same scale as at the Gurten Festival. “You can still adapt a lot,” says Haldemann, who has a law degree and has also completed further training as Head of Human Resources. “It’s sport instead of music, but the organization processes are similar.” And both are connected with emotions, they want to bring joy to the audience as soon as they can come back into the hall.
1985 as a drummer in the hall
Haldemann would like to see how the club won a title during his time at BSV. As a 12-year-old drummer, he supported the team in the 1985 game against Amicitia Zurich, when the Bernese were champions for the last time with the decisive goal of future coach Martin Rubin. Three and a half decades later, he is now working in a responsible position for the association.
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