National Paralympic Committee Germany

The German Disabled Sports Association eV ( DPS) is the German umbrella organization for sports for people with disabilities and National Paralympic Committee (NPC ) for Germany. It was founded on July 4, 1951 decision of the Federal Ministry. The DBS is a registered non-profit association whose national office is based in Frechen.

  • 2.1 The national associations
  • 2.2 The trade associations
  • 2.3 The Associate Members
  • 2.4 Membership of the DBS
  • 2.5 Verbandstag, Main Board, Executive Committee and Board of Trustees 2.5.1 Verbandstag
  • 2.5.2 Main Board
  • 2.5.3 Bureau
  • 2.5.4 Board of Trustees
  • 3.1 Commissions and Committees 3.1.1 The Committee " competitive sport "
  • 3.1.2 The Committee " grassroots "
  • 3.1.3 The Committee "Rehabilitation Sports "
  • 3.1.4 The Committee " Education / Teaching"
  • 3.1.5 Commission "medicine"
  • 3.1.6 Commission "Girls and Women "
  • GGmbH 7.1 DBS Academy 7.1.1 objectives
  • 7.2.1 objectives

History

The beginnings of invalids Sports

On 19th/20th. August 1950 found the 1st German -disabled sports championships in swimming and athletics held with 200 participants. At the same time, to that of the Federal President Theodor Heuss support championship, the German -disabled sports federation is founded. Elected as the first chairman is Eugene Weimann.

Nearly a year later decides the Federal Ministry of Labour on June 27, 1951 " The maimed sport is to promote broad-based as to the nature and operation as a recreational sport, particularly by the orthopedic supply points and in the utilities, hospitals and convalescent homes he is as a healing measure be carried out. " Consequently establish representative of invalids Sports, the federal ministries, the war victims' associations and the countries on the occasion of the 1st conference on July 4, 1951 in Bad Godesberg, the " working Group of German -disabled sport " ( ADV), in which the German -disabled sports federation is integrated. Arthur Mallwitz is selected as the first chairman.

On 14 July 1951, the German Sports Federation decides (DSB ) ADV as " tip showing the maimed athlete " recognize. In 1952, the ADV is added as a member of the German Olympic Society.

The largest collection on the history of disability sport, the Lower Saxony Institute for Sport History ( " NISH " ) in Hannover.

From ADV for DBS

Five years after its founding, the ADV in 306 -disabled sports groups over 26 000 active athletes in 12 state associations with 1,200 marshals and 600 doctors. At the general meeting on April 28, 1957 we decided to rename the ADV in " German -disabled sports federation eV" (DVS ).

At the 1st Annual Verbandstag of DVS in Wurzburg 26-27. November 1960 adopted a new constitution that better integrates the regional associations through participation in the newly formed Main Board. In 1964, the number of members already amounts to more than 44 628 members in 868 sports groups that are providing expert of 2,300 exercise ladders and 1,500 physicians. The German Sports Federation organized the 1966 DVS in the " extraordinary affiliates " one. In 1968 a committee of the DVS released a redesign of the " maimed conditions for the German Sports Badge " and thus divides body damage 32 damage classes.

The Verbandstag in Bensberg on July 5, 1975, decides to re- change of name of association. The German -wounded Sports Association eV ( DVS ) will in the future be called " German Disabled Sports Association eV" (DPS) and thus adapts to the legislation of federal and state governments, which convert the term " invalids " to " Disabled ".

The DBS has expanded its areas of responsibility

On February 18, 1978, the Presidium of the DBS decides the German Wheelchair Sports Association eV ( DRS ) included in the German Disabled Sports Association and equivalent to the national associations. The main board of the DBS deals in Marie Heath on October 4, 1980, among others, with the competitive sports. They agree that the competitive sports needs financial and moral support to meet international demands. From now on, the German Sports Aid Foundation helps the competitive sports of disabled people from financially. However, primary task of DBS remains popular sport.

The 8th Annual Verbandstag of DBS in Fulda on November 14 In 1981 the amendment before the " Youth Committee " to take as the official organ in the DBS. Less than four years later, on March 10, 1985, the first General Assembly of the DBSJ takes place, the German Disabled Sports Youth is born.

Over time, you will now check the DBS also the possibilities of the "Sports of the mentally handicapped " ( old name ( source www.dbs - npc.de ) today: people with intellectual disabilities ). As of 25 January 1986, the interests of the athletes are officially represented by an active speaker. The Main Board decides on September 30, 1988, in to deal from now on with the future areas of " rehabilitation sports " and the " doping issue " in competitive sports.

The late 1980s and today

After the very successful for the DBS - athletes World Games in Seoul (South Korea) 1988, 1989 the relocation of the DBS Federal office of Dusseldorf is accomplished in the sports school of Duisburg- Wedau. The 10th Annual Verbandstag of the DBS, meeting in Saarbrücken of the same year on 29 April, for the first time takes a representative for the "sport of women " on the Presidium.

On September 22, 1989 in Dusseldorf some 240 delegates from 46 nations, the existing six world associations for disabled sports ( physically handicapped, paraplegic, deaf, blind, cerebral movement -impaired and mentally handicapped ) to unite in a federation. The new world organization is given the name " International Paralympic Committee " (IPC). From 1 January 1991 the national federations of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg- Western Pomerania, Saxony, Saxony -Anhalt and Thuringia belong to the German Disabled Sports Association.

The 1st International Congress of the DBS "Rehabilitation through Sport" from 25 to 28 October 1995 Dusseldorf covers topics sporting facilities like in a multiple disability, stroke, addiction and mental health, osteoporosis, blindness and visual impairment, cardiology, and law and organization. As part of the 12th Annual Association Day on May 3, 1997 Ratingen is the "Anti -Doping Rules " included in the Statute of the DBS. A survey in 1998 shows that established itself with 24,000 active athletes and the sport for the mentally handicapped. The Rehabilitation Sport is increasingly becoming one of the most important tasks of the DBS and so constituted on July 25, 1998 in Hanover, the Committee " rehabilitation sports ".

In the new millennium ( 2000), the DBS reached the number of 304 542 members and 3,342 clubs. Today, the German Disabled Sports Association of the competent central association is in the German Olympic Sports Confederation ( DOSB ), the former German Sports Federation (DSB ) for the sport of people with disabilities and simultaneously National Paralympic Committee (NPC ) for Germany.

Structure and membership of the DBS

The German Disabled Sports Association differs in the Statute between ordinary and extraordinary members. Among the regular members include 17 national associations and two trade associations.

In addition, the DBS, under its statutes, a self-governing youth organization, the German Disabled Sports Youth ( DBSJ ).

The national associations

  • Baden
  • Bavaria
  • Berlin
  • Brandenburg
  • Bremen
  • Hamburg
  • Hesse
  • Mecklenburg -Western Pomerania
  • Lower Saxony
  • North Rhine -Westphalia
  • Rhineland -Palatinate
  • Saarland
  • Saxony
  • Saxony-Anhalt
  • Schleswig-Holstein
  • Thuringia
  • Württemberg

The trade associations

  • German Wheelchair Sports Association
  • German Deaf People Sports Association

The extraordinary general

The associate members currently include seven organizations.

  • German Association for therapeutic riding
  • Sozialverband Germany ( SoVD )
  • German Blind and Visually Impaired
  • Special Olympics Germany (SOD )
  • German Rowing Federation e.V. ( DRV)
  • Disabled Golf Club Germany
  • German - Turkish Association for the promotion of disabled sports

Memberships of DBS

The DBS is in turn itself a member of three organizations.

  • International Paralympic Committee ( IPC)
  • German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB )
  • German Sports Youth ( DSJ )

Verbandstag, Main Board, Executive Committee and Board of Trustees

Verbandstag

At the top of the DBS is a volunteer operating Bureau, from once every four years passing Verbandstag, the highest organ in the DBS, is chosen. The Verbandstag also selects the honorary members of the Association.

Composition of the Association of Day:

  • All members of the Main Board
  • 250 delegates of the national federations (divided by number of members )
  • The two delegates of the disability sports federations
  • The two delegates of the extraordinary general
  • All honorary members of the Association

Main Board

Association Between these days the Main Board is the highest body in the German Disabled Sports Association.

Composition of the Main Board:

  • All members of the Bureau
  • The chairmen or presidents of the regular members or other members of the appropriate Board
  • The Honorary Presidents and Honorary President of the DBS
  • The chair of the Conference of the Extraordinary General
  • The chairperson of the Board of Trustees
  • The Commissioner for girls and women

Presidium

The chosen Verbandstag Bureau is responsible for the implementation of decisions taken by Verbandstag and Main Board decisions and the management of DBS in the first place.

Composition of the Bureau:

  • The President or the President
  • The Vice-President or the Vice President for Finance and economy
  • The Vice-President or the Vice President -performance sports
  • The Vice-President or the Vice President grassroots, prevention and rehabilitation sport Sports
  • The Vice-President or the Vice President Education and Teaching
  • The Vice-President or the Vice President Medicine
  • The chairperson of the DBSJ

Board of Trustees

The Board of Trustees consists of important personalities of the society, such as the Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of the Interior, Dr. Christoph Bergner. Since November 3, 2009, the SPD politician and former Federal Minister of Justice Brigitte Zypries assumes the chairmanship of the Board of Trustees.

Composition of the Board:

  • Personalities from politics, economy, science and sports and disability organizations
  • The President or the President
  • A Vice-President or a Vice- President
  • Two representatives or representatives of the national associations

When working bodies committees and commissions are used, their composition is a function of the Statute. The full-time representation of the DBS is the federal office in Duisburg. This is led by the Secretary General and reflects generally the volunteer-driven structures of the Bureau by appropriate departments resist. The German Disabled Sports Association is working with a number of partners to exploit synergy effects and to jointly establish the sport of people with disabilities. The work of the DBS is also supported by the Sponsors Disabled Sports, Disabled Sports Foundation and sponsors.

Membership of the DBS

The number of members of the DBS has steadily increased over the period of its existence since 1951. Was it in 1956, five years after the founding of the Association already impressive 13,093, the number has grown up to the last inventory survey in January 2012 to 618 621 members. The number of nationwide licensed, professional trainers came in the last inventory survey in 2008 to 23,862.

Tasks and objectives of the DBS

The German Disabled Sports Association is politically, union politically and religiously neutral, according to the principles enshrined in the Statutes section. He pursues the purpose to promote disabled sports as a means of rehabilitation and social integration and use. Each person with a disability should have the opportunity of participating in sport in the process of rehabilitation as well as from the aspect of medically attended health promotion.

The tasks of the DBS are thus essential in the social and welfare work step. For this purpose, they act in the legislative process in all matters which concern the disabled sports or maimed physical exercises, with and influence decisions. The DBS leads further courses and events at the federal, and international level, acting as a German leading association for competitive sports (NPC ) at the national and international levels, promotes, builds and maintains sports and leisure centers, published association information as well as appropriate literature or assigns or. participates in research contracts. In order to guarantee equality between women and men, confession is made expressly to the principles of gender mainstreaming. The DBS is pursuing the sole purpose of profit.

Committees and Commissions

The tasks and areas of competence of the German Disabled Sports Association are scattered across various committees and commissions. These include:

The Committee " competitive sport "

Tasks:

  • Responsible leadership and management of competitive sports
  • Development of concepts for performance enhancement and promotion of young
  • Planning and implementation of cross-departmental events
  • Creation of department orders
  • Public relations

The Committee " grassroots "

Tasks:

  • Coordination of issues of grassroots
  • Development of uniform national guidelines for the implementation of grassroots
  • Collection and analysis of information on the popular sport

The Committee "Rehabilitation Sports "

Tasks

  • Creation of uniform national guidelines for implementation of rehabilitation sport in the sense of legal and contractual requirements
  • Preparation of contracts with service providers at the federal level with the objective of uniform national regulations
  • Development of rehabilitation sport in relation to sports and types of disabilities as well as the initiation of pilot projects for the implementation of the concepts
  • Collection and analysis of information on rehabilitation sports

The Committee " Education / Teaching"

Tasks:

  • Development of concepts for pre- qualified employees for competitive sports
  • Appointment of Federal lecturers
  • Recruitment and training of speakers for the teaching work and performance monitoring
  • Coordination of the teaching work of rehabilitation sport and grassroots sport in the regional associations
  • Connection to other training institutions and evaluation of the work of these institutions
  • Production of teaching materials and annual course programs

Commission "medicine"

  • Health promotion, prevention and rehabilitation
  • Quality Management
  • Anti -Doping
  • Sports Medicine
  • Gender Mainstreaming

Commission "Girls and Women "

  • Gender Mainstreaming
  • Development and implementation of women's development programs

Function as the National Paralympic Committee

The German Disabled Sports Association represents in the form of the National Paralympic Committee the interests of Paralympic sports in Germany. The rules of the IOC is in accordance with the National Paralympic Committee, an independent and autonomous organization within the self-administration of the German sport. It is registered in accordance with the distribution Paralympic Ideenguts in the Federal Republic of Germany, prepares the participation of the German sports at the Paralympic Games and performs tasks that are provided to the German Olympic Sports Confederation by the IOC. It maintains contacts with the National Olympic Committees around the world.

President

President of the German Disabled Sports Association since its founding in 1951:

The German Disabled Sports Youth ( DBSJ )

  • Main article: German Disabled Sports Youth

The development of sport for children and young people with disabilities began in the early 1980s and was officially opened by the establishment of the DBSJ in 1985. The promotion of young people with disabilities is an essential task, its significance is expressed by its own youth organization within the DBS. The German Disabled Sports Youth leads and manages itself, under the Articles and Rules of the DBS independently.

It wants to create with disabilities the opportunity to its members to drive through the youth work of the regular members of the DBS and under medical supervision in communities sport to contribute to personal development, promote social and psycho-physical development, encourage social engagement and encounters for young people and contribute sporting events with non-disabled children and young people to integrate and awaken through contacts with foreign groups, the willingness to international understanding and to maintain.

Summer 2008 Paralympics in Beijing

From 8 August to 24 August 2008, the Summer Olympic Games in 2008 ( officially called the Games of the XXIX. Olympiad ) mainly held in the Chinese capital Beijing. They were the first Olympic Games that took place in China. The contract of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) awarded Beijing on 13 July 2001.

The agreement of the host countries to the IOC specifies that the Paralympics are using the same venue as the Olympic Games. So the 13th Summer Paralympics were officially discharged from the 6th to September 17, 2008 also in Beijing, China, and people with disabilities were able to put their skills and powers to the test. The DBS took in these games act as the National Paralympic Committees and sent the athletes who had met the requirements and guidelines to Beijing and assisted them on the spot.

At the Paralympic Games in Beijing, competitions were held in the following 20 sports:

  • Archery
  • Athletics
  • Boccia
  • Cycling ( road / terrain )
  • Riding
  • Soccer ( 5 Player )
  • Football ( 7 players )
  • Goalball
  • Judo
  • Weightlifting
  • Rowing
  • Sailing
  • Swimming
  • Table tennis
  • Volleyball
  • Wheelchair Basketball
  • Wheelchair fencing
  • Wheelchair Rugby
  • Wheelchair Tennis

See also Main article: Summer 2008 Paralympics

Other partners of the German Disabled Sports Association

DBS Academy gGmbH

The Academy of the German Disabled Sports Association was founded on 21 April 2006 from DBS, 14 state associations and the German Wheelchair Sports Association.

Objectives

The advice and support of the DPS and its state and professional associations in the fields of training, continuing education and training in disability sport as well as in leadership, management and administration as well as the creation of concepts in this area. Furthermore, tasks of the Academy the design, implementation, facilitation and documentation of events on people with disabilities and at highlighting the importance of sport for people with disabilities.

Sponsors Disabled Sports eV

The Presidium of the DBS was established in 1998.

Objectives

Promoting innovative projects by non-profit institutions in the disability sport with up to 50% of the total.

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