Thomas Bach

Thomas Bach ( born December 29, 1953 in Würzburg ) is a German jurist and former fencer. In 1976 he became Olympic champion with the team in fencing and is a longtime sports official since 2013 President of the International Olympic Committee.

Biography

Education and work

After high school studied Bach 1973-1979 Law and Political Science at the University of Würzburg and graduated with the first legal state exam. After his clerkship, including at the German Bundestag, put Bach 1982, the second state examination in 1983 and his doctorate with the thesis " The influence of predictions on the jurisprudence of the Federal Constitutional Court " to Doctor juris utriusque. He then opened in Tauberbischofsheim own law firm.

1985 Bach was Director of International Relations at Adidas. From 1988 to 1990 he coordinated the medium Advisory Board of the Federal Minister of Economics and was appointed chairman of Michael Weinig AG in Tauberbischofsheim 1998. Between 2000 and 2008, Bach was a consultant of Siemens AG.

In May 2006, Bach was elected president of the Ghorfa Arab- German Chamber of Commerce and Industry. This office he resigned after his election as President of the IOC.

Apart from German Bach speaks Spanish as well as French and English fluently.

Sporting career

In the 1970s, Bach was active as a fencer. In 1971 he won the bronze medal of the World Youth Championship, and two years later he became Vice World Champion team. In the Summer Olympics 1976 Bach have with the team and the Olympic gold medal in the same year of winning the world title. In the World Fencing Championships in 1977, he defended with the team the world championship title. In 1978, Bach German foil champion in singles and won the European Cup in the team foil. In 1979, he won again with the team a bronze medal at the World Championships in Melbourne.

Sports official

Bach was involved early in the sports policy. From 1975 to 1979 he was active spokesman for the German Fencing Federation ( DFB). In 1981 he was appointed as a member of the new Athletes' Commission of the International Olympic Committee and in 1982 as a member of the National Olympic Committee of Germany.

After his call to the International Olympic Committee in 1991 Bach resigned from the NOC. In 1995 he was appointed Chairman of the Appeals Chamber of the International Sports Court CAS. In 1996 he was elected to the Executive Committee of the IOC. On the occasion of the 111th session of the International Olympic Committee on the edge of the Olympic Summer Games 2000 in Sydney Bach was elected as the third German to honorary vice-president of the IOC. As scheduled, he resigned in August 2004 from this office. On the edge of the Olympic Winter Games in Turin in 2006, he was re-elected to this office. It was thus as a promising candidate for the succession of the former IOC President Jacques Rogge.

Following the unification of the DSB and NOK Bach was elected in May 2006 to take up volunteer president of the newly founded German Olympic Sports Confederation. After his election as IOC president, he entered on September 16, 2013 this office back.

In its various offices Thomas Bach led several IOC Commissions, was a board member of the organizing committee of the 2006 World Cup and a member of the Board of Trustees of the organizing committee of the Women's Football World Cup 2011.

On September 10, 2013, he was elected to the 125th IOC Session in Buenos Aires for the 9th President of the IOC.

Social commitment

Thomas Bach is a member of the FDP and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation in. At the suggestion of the FDP / DVP group in the Landtag of Baden- Württemberg Bach was a member of the 14th federal assembly.

Criticism

In the criticism Thomas Bach came when it was announced in April 2008 that he had a consulting agreement with Siemens since the turn of the millennium, which was paid in 2008, with 400,000 euros and providing for additional charges in the amount of 5,000 euros per day. Siemens supervisory board members complained that at such high fees an additional payment by the day " extremely unusual " was. Bach is said to have organized for the Siemens Group invitations from the Arab region.

From the journalists' union network research, he got in his capacity as Vice- President of the International Olympic Committee on 14 June 2008 negative price Locked oyster for which particularly restrictive information policy of the committee awarded. This tolerate " for many years, corruption and conflicts of interest in the awarding of Games" and operate with its " information policy is the opposite of fair play ' ," said the notice.

Awards

Others

Bach had been already four times Olympic torchbearer. After he carried the fire back in 2004 in Berlin, Beijing 2008 and Vancouver 2010, London 2012 was his fourth deployment as an Olympic torchbearer. He was also involved in the global torch relay - with regard to the first Summer Youth Olympic Games 2010 in Singapore - in Berlin.

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