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Expensive time under DOSB President Alfons Hörmann

IIs it lucky for the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) that the Hörmann affair seems to be over? “Not punishable” is the report published on Wednesday by a commission of inquiry into the behavior of the former DOSB president, his presidium and board of directors between May and December 2021. The boss was primarily accused in an anonymous email in spring last year , to have created a “culture of fear” in the association.

The attack was followed by an elaborate attack by the Hörmann faction, which was costly for the DOSB. That failed enormously, also to the detriment of a former board member. But according to the reporters, the lawyer Christa Thiel and the former judge at the Federal Court of Justice Clemens Basdorf, it is not enough for claims for recourse. There will probably be no legal disputes.

Sports officials expressed their disappointment at the “too harmless” result to the FAZ. There was also talk of “inadequate transparency”. But there will be no riot. Organized sport rather wishes that the story ended here. It only starts at this point: The 41-page template touches on a value that cannot be sued for in any court in the world, but is also essential for sport: respect.

Eight months working time for report

What do you have to conclude when the new DOSB leadership praises “fairness, transparency and appreciation” in the introduction to the most recent presentation of the Hörmann case? If she literally puts “the needs of the employees at the center”, wants to “build trust”, wants to define “binding rules for the documentation and filing of processes”? That apparently the reverse conclusion applies to the examined time in the Hörmann era. Admittedly, this is nothing more than an interpretation.

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