Torsten Burmester becomes chairman of the board of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB).
According to information from the FAZ, the presidium of the association, headed by Thomas Weikert, voted unanimously on Wednesday in favor of the former personal advisor to Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder.
Three candidates were shortlisted by a recruitment agency.
Michael Reinsch
Correspondent for sports in Berlin.
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Burmester, 59 years old, is General Secretary of the German Disabled Sports Association (DBS). He has been on leave from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2020. In Düsseldorf he previously headed the business law department of the Ministry of Economics, Innovation, Digitization and Energy. In Berlin he worked in the Chancellery from 2002 to 2005 and then moved to the Federal Ministry of the Interior, where he was deputy head of the sports department. Burmester is from Cologne and is a graduate of the German Sport University in Cologne. His sporting home is handball.
Four weeks after their election, Weikert and his presidium set the course to end the vacancy at the top of the DOSB board.
Burmester is expected to take up his position before the Winter Olympics, which begin on February 4th.
Veronika Rücker, who succeeded Michael Vesper as CEO in 2018, left the company early at the turn of the year.