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Munich (dpa) - Alfons Hörmann struggled hard to be calm.
The pressure on the President of the German Olympic Sports Confederation continued to grow when the 60-year-old first spoke in more detail about the DOSB crisis around an anonymous employee letter.
He would “do nothing better” than to comment on the individual, harsh accusations, he claimed in the Munich press club - but unfortunately this was the “wrong time” and “wrong place”.
After the allegations from the previous week, the Allgäu is facing decisive in-house hearings in the case.
And on Monday, the criticism of the DOSB boss got new food.
But Hörmann made one thing clear: According to his understanding, the DOSB President sees “no reason whatsoever to suspend his office in any way” until the allegations have been clarified, as he told the German Press Agency.
At the weekend there were even calls for the top German sports official to resign.
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How it continues with the open letter from unnamed employees from the DOSB headquarters in Frankfurt, who reported a "culture of fear", great psychological pressure from Hörmann and a very lax approach to corona regulations, is due to ethics -Commission of the DOSB.
On Wednesday, the committee around the former Federal Minister of the Interior Thomas de Maizière wants to discuss the allegations, as Hörmann announced two days earlier.
"Our goal will be to answer all of the points clearly, openly and transparently," he said.
The 60-year-old said the allegations made him “personally in the same way as the entire presidium and the board of directors”.
By Tuesday, the DOSB leadership wanted to present the ethicists with “our corresponding representations”.
The house row comes at an inopportune moment on Frankfurt's Otto Fleck aisle, now that preparations for the Corona Olympics in Tokyo are entering the most important phase.
And actually Hörmann wanted to chat about the summer games with all their challenges related to the pandemic measures at his appointment in the Munich press club opposite the pretty town hall on Marienplatz.
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Hörmann said he was surprised by the allegations, which he took "seriously" and after which one would come to a conclusion "over the next few weeks" and "draw the appropriate conclusions".
The aim is to “create a different climate in the DOSB”, he announced.
The explosive letter would therefore not be completely insubstantial.
This is also suggested by statements by the former managing director of Deutsche Sport Marketing (DSM), Thomas Dieckhoff.
He told the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” (Monday) that the DOSB boss had always built up a lot of pressure.
“With Mr. Hörmann, I personally always felt the pressure to be negative, as stress.
That was threatening, unsettling and did nothing to create a positive, motivating working atmosphere for me personally, ”said Dieckhoff.
Before the Ethics Conference, Hörmann relied on the trust that the DOSB Presidium had expressed in him “unreservedly” and “unanimously”.
That's why he's not thinking of resigning.
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Athlete representative Jonathan Koch distanced himself from the statement on Monday.
In a statement on Twitter, he made it clear that the rower abstained from a vote by the Presidium on a position in the Hörmann case.
He did not agree with the choice of words in parts of the statement published by the DOSB.
“Despite my abstention, I was named under this position.
I would like to correct this here, »wrote Koch.
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