Award-winning: KSB Honorary Chairman Peter Ache (3rd from right) and his wife Astrid Ache-Lindemann with the well-wishers (from left) Markus Wolf (KSB), Christoph Reents (Mayor Wardenburg), Holger Kreye, Horst Bokelmann (both KSB) and District Administrator Carsten Harings.
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Sandkrug – Great recognition for Peter Ache: The honorary chairman of the district sports association in the district of Oldenburg has now been awarded the Medal of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his more than 40 years of voluntary commitment in sport. On behalf of Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, District Administrator Carsten Harings presented the Wardenburger with the medal on the premises of TSG Hatten-Sandkrug, where the office of the Kreissportbund (KSB) is based.
1975 Ache was in his hometown club Judo Club Achternmeer Youth leader. “That was the starting signal for an unprecedented career that was to follow,” said District Administrator Harings, looking back on the merits of the 62-year-old. So Ache worked in addition to the association work from 1978 to 1990 as a board member for the international youth movement of KSB sports youth During this time, he was also a member of the specialist committee for international youth movement in sports youth in Lower Saxony for two years. In 1990 the Wardenburger took over the chairmanship of the sports youth in the district, which he held for six years. Among other things, he acted as deputy chairman of the Sports youth Lower Saxony and from 1994 also as deputy chairman of the KSB. Ache followed in 2004 Gerold Otte as KSB chairman. “By 2018 you had mastered this responsible task with flying colors and played a key role in the development of the regional sports association,” praised Harings.
Ache set up the KSB professionally and represented the interests of the sports clubs with the necessary tenacity. Harings was also able to determine this in his term of office as district administrator, which is coming to an end in a few days. “I found the cooperation very pleasant,” he said: “It was open, honest, trusting and fair – just as it should be for a sportsman.” There is no question that he is one of those volunteer people who do more than just hold an office and manage it, but fill it out with energy, cleverness and skill.
My need was and is to develop personally, to have contact with great people and to learn a lot in the process. I am infinitely grateful that this was allowed to happen to me.
Wardenburg’s mayor was one of the first to congratulate Christoph Reents. “It is impressive when you have made your energy available to volunteer for more than 40 years. It’s been an exceptional achievement over such a long period of time, ”he said. Reents also emphasized that Ache had recently also looked after a refugee family in Wardenburg.
The KSB deputy chairman Horst Bokelmann remembered how Ache had brought him to the KSB Executive Board in 2004: “I accepted immediately because I knew you and was convinced that we as a team could organize and achieve something.” Relocation of the KSB office from Wildeshausen to Sandkrug, as well as the one Merger with the Stadtsportbund Delmenhorst to form the smallest sports region in Lower Saxony. “You prevailed in Hanover to give us a 17th sports region. Thanks in part to your earnings, we are the smallest sports region, but a very, very active one, ”emphasized Bokelmann. Ache still fulfills his advisory role as honorary chairman in board meetings with great commitment.
Thanks to his early sponsor Günter Schröder in the judo club as well Gerold Otte, with whom he sat on the KSB board for many years. “Even as the chairman of the youth sports team, I always had the feeling that I was at eye level,” said Ache. He has also always been able to work very well with politics and administration in the district.
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