Rolf Müller, the President of the State Sports Federation (LSB) Hessen, has sharply criticized the plan by Alfons Hörmann and the Presidium of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) to convene an extraordinary general meeting in September for the purpose of a vote of confidence.

"The DOSB Presidium would be well advised to accept the prudent and well-founded recommendation of the ethics committee," demanded Müller on Tuesday.

The commission headed by former Federal Minister of the Interior Thomas de Maizière had recommended new elections in December.

Müller assesses the approach of Hörmann and his committee as follows: “This is trickery.

Insight and willingness to learn look different for me. "

Michael Reinsch

Correspondent for sports in Berlin.

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    On Saturday, the conference of the central associations, the majority of the DOSB members, voted in favor of the extraordinary general assembly after the Olympic and Paralympic Games, probably in September. On Tuesday, however, it became clear that more and more association presidents, managing directors and board members supported the unanimous vote of the state sports federations as well as the resolute demand from Athletes Germany, which reads: What the ethics committee writes about the leadership style and behavior of the president can have no other consequence than New elections.

    An email from President Hörmann and CEO Veronika Rücker, which the organizations and people associated with the DOSB received on Monday, may have contributed to the change of heart.

    Since the impression was given that the DOSB Presidium was not planning to implement the recommendations of the ethics committee in the best possible way, Hörmann and Rücker wanted to provide detailed information.

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    "Clear and unanimous decision"

    On the day after receiving the report from the ethics committee, that is on Tuesday last week, the presidium, it says in the mail, “made a clear and unanimous decision that we would clear the way for new elections in December 2021 by resigning our mandates accordingly become". This was done under the "premise" of coordinating the procedure with the association groups. In the next paragraph, the clear and unanimous decision becomes a “provisional resolution”, which Hörmann “openly discusses” with the associations' spokespersons and asks for close coordination.

    Since the associations with special tasks and the state sports federations still have the formation of opinion ahead of them at this point in time, the influence of the central associations is particularly important.

    Their group of speakers, led by basketball president Ingo Weiss, unanimously decided on the so-called two-stage path in the evening: first of all, the vote of confidence as the “basis for a decision on possible new elections in December 2021”.

    "This led" according to Hörmann / Rücker "to an adjustment of the decisions of the Presidium from the previous day" on the same evening.

    So if the Bureau's decision to follow the recommendation for new elections, as is done in the mail, is described as a clear and unanimous decision to step down, even though it is only implicit, the adjustment was the resignation from resignation.

    Nobody seems to have noticed that the ailing Hörmann had decided for twenty-four hours to resign. Although Hörmann last Saturday, when he tried to convince around eighty representatives of the leading associations that the ethics committee had exonerated him and that he was the right person to lead German sport, when he said on this occasion that he did not want a new beginning Standing away, the resignation was not discussed in the indicative, as one participant described it, but in the subjunctive. Hörmann did not give the delegates of the associations the impression that he wanted to step aside for this new beginning.