Sports politics
DOSB announces leadership change on the board
The CEO of the DOSB is running for mayor of the city of Cologne. Regardless of the election outcome, the DOSB is now announcing a change at the top – without giving any details.
The German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) has announced a change at the top of the board. The DOSB announced this after the current chairman, Torsten Burmester, was presented as the SPD candidate for the mayoral election on September 14, 2025 in Cologne.
“Regardless of the outcome of the election, there will be a change at the top of the DOSB main office,” it said in a statement. The umbrella organization for German sports initially did not provide any further details – including when the change should take place. “Publication of further details would inevitably affect the personal rights of individuals.” The DOSB left it open what this formulation meant.
Burmester was personal assistant to the then Chancellor Gerhard Schröder (SPD) from 2002 to 2005. He then worked as deputy head of the sports department in the Federal Ministry of the Interior and as head of the commercial law department in the Ministry of Economics, Innovation, Digitalization and Energy in North Rhine-Westphalia. In 2022, Burmester took over as CEO of the DOSB.
dpa
Source: Stern
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