Thomas Weikert was re-elected president with 434 votes (99%), Verena Bentele (403 votes), Kerstin Holze (370 votes), Oliver Stegemann (338 votes) and Miriam Welte (425 votes) as vice-presidents. Jens-Peter Nettekoven (273 votes) has now filled another position of vice president that was vacant at the DOB general meeting in Weimar last year.
The presidium is completed by Fabienne Königstein as elected representative of the athletes and Stefan Raid as president of the German Sports Youth (dsj) and Britta Heidemann as member of the athletes commission in the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
“This is a strong vote for the members of the Executive Committee who have been confirmed in office and of course also for me personally. Together with newcomer Jens-Peter Nettekoven, we will tackle the challenges that German sport is facing. Pandemic, energy crisis and also shaping the future with the Olympics, safe sport, more movement and health for the whole country require energy and unity: this general assembly represents both. We want to move more together”.
The elections marked the end of a busy sports parliament, presided over in the morning by the mayor of Baden-Baden Dietmar Späth, the president of the Baden-Württemberg State Sports Association, Jürgen Scholz, the chairman of the Conference of Sports Ministers and Minister of the Interior and Sport of Rhineland-Palatinate, Michael Ebling, and the Minister of Education, Youth and Sport of Baden-Württemberg, Theresa Schopper.
Juliane Seifert, state secretary at the Federal Ministry of Home Affairs (BMI), spoke on behalf of the federal government in front of around 300 delegates. Seifert stressed the further development of German top-level sports financing jointly supported by the DOB and the BMI, but she also stressed that in the pandemic and the energy crisis, sports clubs must be secured and strengthened as a basis. She stressed that the Federal Interior Ministry will continue to work to ensure that sports clubs affected by the energy crisis can also benefit from the hardship rules.
During the protection against sexualized violence in sport, Seifert thanked the DOB and the dsj for the dialogue process. The representative of the federal government also agreed with the participatory strategy process that must be carried out before a possible German Olympic bid.
Before that, the delegates (consisting of representatives of German sports associations, state sports federations and other sports-related organisations, as well as individual members) had made a whole range of decisions for the future of organized sport in Germany.
The assembly unanimously approved a resolution on a multi-stage strategic process for a possible bid for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Miriam Welte and Oliver Stegemann presented a “road map”, the first stage of which in the coming year will include a series of nationwide discussion forums with supporters, critics and stakeholders from business, politics, culture and other sectors of society. In an open and transparent process, the why should be discussed before the question of possible details such as when, where or how.
Sport as a protected area, in which children and young people in particular have a safe place, was the content of the motion for a resolution “Protection against violence in sport again in the future plan Safe sport as a sustainable overall strategy!”. The managing director of the German sports youth, Christina Gassner, promoted the development of a future-safe sports plan as a long-term comprehensive strategy for the DOB and the DSJ, as well as their affiliated organisations, to protect themselves from violence. Experiences of violence in sports clubs are not isolated cases. A basic position of sport on protection against violence had already been worked out jointly by the DOB, the DSJ and member organizations as well as athletes’ representatives in an intensive dialogue process over the summer. The resolution adopted by the General Assembly “Again the protection against violence in sport in the future plan for safe sport as a global sustainable strategy!” intends to ensure further continuous development in the field of protection against violence.
The meeting dedicated particular attention to the topic of “Resolving sexual harassment and violence in sport”. As the third pillar alongside prevention and intervention, reassessment should receive more attention. Awareness and knowledge of injustice through sexual harassment and violence in sport offers the opportunity to penetrate the dynamics of violence in an association or sports club, to clarify cases, take action and listen and support those affected. The general assembly unanimously supported the publication of the guidelines for “handling sexual harassment and violence in sports associations and clubs”, which offer associations and clubs guidance aid for transparent and targeted treatment on those affected. The resolution and the guidelines were unanimously approved by the assembly.
A human rights advisory board is to advise the DOB on sustainability and human rights issues. The committee helps to continuously work on these issues, which are becoming more and more important for the sport. DOSB President Thomas Weikert: “We had these discussions at previous major sporting events as well, but the interest waned as soon as they were over. With the help of the expertise gathered in the advisory board, we want to anchor a permanent commitment of sport on these topics, because sustainable approaches are needed to be able to bring about real changes.” As umbrella organization for organized sport in Germany, but also as the Olympic Committee national, the DOB for the essential that the rethinking that has already occurred in world sport and the focus on issues such as sustainability and human rights are constantly carried forward, said Weikert.
As Chief Executive Officer of the Human Rights Advisory Board of the DOB, former chairman of the UN Human Rights Advisory Board, Dr. Joachim Rücker. You can read member information here.
The general assembly of DOB 2023 will be held on 2 December in Frankfurt am Main.
(Source: DOSB)
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