It is advisable to fulfill the facts of the evil recovery if one attested a sports vita to Otto Fricke, the new CEO of the German Olympic Sports Association (DOSB). Yes, he never did top sport, Fricke confesses, then holds his colorful mass sports career, from baseball to ski alpine. Fricke can also credibly assure that he robs people with his special specialist knowledge. Small: he knows the exact day when the Olympic fire went out at the summer games in Munich, September 11, 1972! It is high time that Germany will be awarded the summer games again. Preferably in the next three years, for which Fricke has been signed by the DOSB.
The question arose when the DOSB introduced the 59-year-old last June as his new highest full-time employee: Can someone who at least leads no relevant work evidence as a sports official or from related industries, leading this umbrella organization, who has often been more busy with himself in recent years than with his actual mission? Certainly, Fricke, a trained lawyer, was sitting for the FDP in the Bundestag by 2025, and as a budgetary policy expert, he also negotiated with sports representatives. On the other hand, on Thursday, when Fricke introduced itself in a media round in Frankfurt, it became clear: to lead a umbrella organization from a special industry, with 102 member organizations and 28 million memberships, is another price range. And just in the debate about German Olympic acquisition there were promptly new irritation.
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Representatives from organized sport had recently heard edifying signals; Fricke works quickly and with sincere joy, could be heard. Fricke assured the recording of the DOSB general meeting in 2024 in 2024, assured Fricke on Thursday-through some things you have to struggle, he joked. With such anecdotes, he quickly creates trust. It is also taken from him when he says that he sees himself as a “service provider” for the many members and their interests in the DOSB, from width to the Olympic and Paralympic sport. Unlike under the former DOSB President Alfons Hörmann, who contradicted allegations, that sounds that a “climate of fear” had prevailed during his term. So the fresh look from outside can also help.
Fricke also complained about a point victory on Thursday: After the final negotiations of the federal government, the sport is now entitled to a billion euros for the renovation of its dilapidated sports facilities – per legislative period and not a year, as the DOSB had wanted. But without fricke, it sounded that it might have become even less. On other urgent topics, however, he only commented on request: with the top sports reform, in which the federal government and sport have long tried to promote better sports funding if he wanted to wait for the new Minister of State Christiane Schender. In the fight against sexualized violence, Fricke again presented an interesting approach. He understands the efforts to create an agency that can sanction attacks in the future regardless of sports associations – the so -called Center for Safe Sport. However, the latest reports from athletics have shown that one must primarily prevent coaches in a federal state and then continue to work in another federal state – and their history is hidden, for data protection reasons. He could imagine a kind of central register that also records incidents that are not punishable.
Just in one of the most pressing topics, the German Olympic advertising, Fricke then demonstrated how easily it is easy to get tangled in the confusion that his new employer had recently caused. On Wednesday, Fricke had objected to an SZ report on the Bundestag Committee and Voluntary of the Bundestag, according to which the procedure for the freestyle of the German Olympic candidate has changed again. In April 2025, the DOSB had clearly spoken in April 2025 that an extraordinary general meeting in autumn 2026 would vote on a (!) Prior candidate. This model has recently changed again that several of the currently four candidates in autumn 2026 could move into a fight vote – which could significantly extend the internal competition.
Fricke now admitted on Thursday that he understood if you see these recent “precisements” as a change. However, this change adheres to a decision that the DOSB general meeting had already taken in December 2024. There, the DOSB had actually discussed the opportunity to have the members voted on several concepts in the end. However, he had just cut the procedure differently in April 2025 – we have four applicants, a concept of which is predicted before the final vote – before he now enabled the old model again. As if a parliament would decide tax cuts, then collect them and then introduce them again – and claim that nothing changed after the back and forth.
How the affected regions and member associations accept such original explanations can be expected – such as the fact that one year before the planned freestyle of the German Olympic candidate remains unclear: From the financing to the question of whether an independent body in summer 2026 rated the candidates again, as was planned.
As a new one, you can arrive in everyday life so quickly.
