busy, busy, busy in the Deutsche Hockey-Bund. This is the latest for well over a month clearly, as an anonymous letter-writer to the DHB, the destruction of structures functioning responded, “inhuman Hire & Fire policy” and a “System of fear”. Trigger the alignment of the championship finals in indoor hockey, which had been awarded by the DHB in the short term to Mülheim was, after the originally intended venue had to be inappropriate.
well Before ten days of Stephan Abel, the former President of DHB (2005 to 2015), in the debate on. In an Interview with the “Hamburger Abendblatt” he practiced sharp criticism of the Association’s leadership to his successor, Wolfgang Hillmann. His statements have led to speculation that Abel could push back after his retirement from the Bureau of the German Olympic sports Confederation (DOSB) in his old office. “I have been approached by many, but I am convinced that it would be the wrong Signal, even if there is a restraint in the hockey family,” he said, with a view to the Bundestag of the DHB in may.
Now, four prominent members of the so-called hockey family to speak, which is celebrated with the national team, three Olympic gold medals, three Olympic medals, two world and four European Championships have been won in field hockey. The former national coach Peter Lemmen (women, 2001 to 2003), Bernhard Peters (men, 2000 and 2006), Markus (women, 2003 to 2006; men, 2006 to 2015) and Jamilon Mülders (women, 2012 and 2017) in an Open letter to the members of the German Hockey Federation, in which you bring your concern to the internal relationships in the Association and its external representation.
The Open letter
dear hockey community, dear friends,
the former Federal trainer of the German Hockey Federation in women’s and men’s, Peter Lemmen, Jamilon Mülders, Bernhard Peters, and Markus way, combines the great interest in our attractive sports, the respect for the people working in the Association and in the Clubs, and the concern for the integrity of the internal relationship of the current Association leadership to its members, the concern for the external representation of the Union in relation to our partners in business, the media and Sport.
Although we are not actively engaged in the Association, we observe from our prospects with the greatest interest the Events in and around the national teams and the Clubs. And of course, we keep track of the – often by decisions of the world Association of induced – change processes and their impact on our Association and competition structures.
wrong location. In the Deutscher Hockey-Bund (here national player Nike Lorenz) fester for many disputes. Photo:…photo: imago/Focus Images
The challenges for our Sport and for our cooperation, based on the Association and Association’s interests, in our view, after our departure from the Federal trainer roles are not fundamentally changed.
– We need to have successful national teams, which play in the Olympics for the medals. It is an expression of a community effort to maintain the competitiveness of the Teams.
– We need a healthy growing clubs in the performance and grassroots sport, as the clubs are the base for everything else.
– We need a smart policy for human resources development in the area of our trainers. It is one of the most important key to Success.
– We must constantly rings in critical constructive dialogue with one another, the compensation of the Association and Association’s interests.
– We need a clear return on our Strengths, we are competitive. With all of the skills within our academic system, we already have the Board to pursue in the future, visionary and challenging goals.
And for all the legitimate personal objectives: It is not ums sole Lord, it is about the common Success! To achieve these overarching goals, we need an outstanding, far – and prudent Association management, that is, a smooth goal-oriented Interaction between the Bureau and the Board of Directors, of honor and main office, the League and the Clubs. This seems to us to be for quite some time, often disturbed.
From our perspective, be unloaded to the complex problems on the shoulders of less comrade-in-arms. Within the Bureau, this leads to, for example, a to-do accumulation in the case of the Vice President of Remo Laschet, the integration of several departments. At the Board level to many tasks and sports Director Heino Knuf. Such a grown state of the tasks and power of wealth is in General, for systems featuring reside permanently in crisis mode. How do we want to make sure with such a construction, a contemporary and goal-oriented cooperation, which works largely without friction losses?
, We call
– for a far-reaching realignment of the Association, its Presidium and of the Executive Board, by a better division of tasks and leadership to work more closely with the current and future challenges.
– for a reorganisation of the Bureau, with a clear division of departments, no member of the Bureau, more than a resort.
– for a realignment of the Board of the DHB. The national teams need a sports representation with a voice at the Board level, the only way to survive the necessary importance to the Association can be ensured on the level of decision-making. Also, the League needs a voting seat on the Board level, such a constellation involves a great deal of design opportunities and increase the chances of constructive cooperation in the game plan design, as well as in the planning of high profile events in field and hall.
We want for the upcoming election of the Bureau and the Board of Directors on the occasion of the Federal day in green town, a correspondingly-positioned candidates – team, which ensures the delegates with a convincing program.
With hockey warm Regards
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