Bob- und Schlittenverband für Deutschland
The Bobsleigh and Luge Association of Germany eV ( BSD ) is one of nine regional associations around 100 clubs with approximately 8,000 members. His office is based in the Bavarian Berchtesgaden.
Five clubs from Friedrichroda, Ilmenau, Oberhof, Schierke and Winterberg stood on November 5, 1911 Pate, as the German Bobsleigh Federation ( DBV) was founded in Frankfurt / Main. Also five clubs, this time from Bad Sachsa, Dresden, Hanover, Hildesheim and Ilmenau, accompanied only seven weeks later, on December 26, 1911 in Hanover, the foundation of the German Federal toboggan (DRB).
The effects of World War II brought a new organization of sport in a divided Germany. In the young Federal Republic were Bob, again combined luge and skeleton on October 29, 1949 in Frankfurt / Main, the German Bobsleigh and Luge Federation ( DBSV ). In the GDR, founded in 1953 in Oberhof, the section Bobsleigh and Luge, 1957, in East Berlin, the German sled and Bobsportverband ( DSBV - President: 1953-1962 Heinz Rustemeier, 1962-1976 Erhard Feuereiss, 1976-1982 Hans Friedrich, 1982-1990 Martin Kilian, 1990 Karl -Heinz Anschütz ).
In the wake of German reunification, the DSBV the GDR merged in 1990 in Berchtesgaden with the DBSV. The date last key date in more than nine decades nationally organized bobsleigh, luge and skeleton formed June 24, 2000, when the DBSV the new name was at its annual general meeting in Ilsenburg / resin Bobsleigh and Luge Federation of Germany (BSD ).
Structure
Since 1911, 17 the President directed the destiny of the German runners sport. From 1911 to 1945, the Rentsch - Seyd ( 1911-1912/BC Schierke ) Wolf from Werder ( 1912-1921/BC Friedrichroda ), Otto Griebel ( 1921-1925/BC Oberhof / BC Taunus ), Dr. Rettig (1925 - 1929/MSC Munich ), Walter thickness ( 1929-1930/Sauerländischer BC ), Erwin Hachmannplatz ( 1930-1936/Berliner SC ), Dr. Karl Ritter von Halt ( 1936-1945/München ). From 1949 (DDR so ) were DBSV President: Otto Griebel ( 1949-1952/BC Taunus Frankfurt), Hanns Kilian ( 1952-1968/SC Rießersee ), Richard Hartmann ( 1968-1984/WSV Koenigssee ) and 1984-2004 ( meanwhile BSD) Klaus Kotter from Eggenfelden.
On 26 May 2004, the 50th General Meeting of the BSD chose the Thuringian Interior Minister Andreas Trautmann cousin as successor Kotter, who in 2010 was honorary president of the Association until his death. Vice President is currently Rainer M. Jacobus, as treasurer acts Georg Grabner. Other Committee members are: Bernd hares number, Winfried Stork, Hans-Wolf of Schleinitz. In addition, Norbert Hiedl (Board ) in addition Thomas Schwab ( SG / Sports Director ). Stewards are responsible for the sporting field:
- Bobsleigh / Luge / Skeleton: Silke Kraushaar- Pielach
- Natural Track: Thomas Niemetz
- Jugendwartin: Stefanie Rudolph
Then there are the speakers:
- Grassroots: Juergen Hornung
- Coach Education: Siegfried Radandt
Association doctor: Christian Schneider
For the peak area of the former Sporting luge coach Thomas Schwab is responsible as Secretary General and Director of Sport. Head coach Christoph Langen in Bobbereich is with the coaches René Spies and Sven stirring. Head coach for the Skeleton area is Jens Müller. He is assisted by the coach Bernhard Lehmann and Dirk Grundmann. In luge area Norbert hole is head coach, the coach identify the Georg Hackl, Patric Leitner, Torsten Görlitz and André Florschütz.
The BSD is organized into nine regional associations (Baden- Württemberg, Bavaria, Brandenburg, Hesse, Lower Saxony, North Rhine -Westphalia, Saxony -Anhalt, Saxony, Thuringia).
Olympic Winter Games in Sochi
At the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, the German bobsled team did very poorly, Thomas Florschütz blamed developed for EUR 900,000 of taxpayers' money at the Institute for Research and Development of Sports Equipment Bob's responsible. BMW was simultaneously involved in the development of the German and U.S. bobsled. Steven Holcomb won two and four bronze.
The BSD locked after the games Manuel Machata. Machata had privately related skids for EUR 29,000 from Switzerland, but failed to qualify for the Games themselves. At the World Cup in Winterberg Machata drove faster than the German Sochi participant as Spurbob. He put the skids to the later Olympic gold medalist Alexander Zubkov Jurjewitsch available. Francesco Friedrich sat on the second day also one such Swiss runners; but this did not bring the hoped-for success.
According to the report of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the Swiss company Machata had the skids under the condition " if you do not qualify you with our runners, we get them back, so they can drive in Sochi another" made available.