Claudia HERWEG has been elected with an overwhelming majority as the new DTTB President. HERWEG has worked full-time in table tennis for 30 years including as a managing associate in the table tennis industry. Since 2018 she has been the ITTF equipment manager and has built up the equipment department in Cologne.
As an active player newly elected President used to play in the 2nd Bundesliga and worked as a coach with one of the biggest German regional associations. Since Saturday at 4.17 p.m. Claudia Herweg is the President of the German Table Tennis Association. The 55-year-old who was proposed by the five DTTB regional associations with the largest number of members was elected by the DTTB-AGM with 204 votes in favour two against and no abstentions.
Herweg is the 13th person to hold the office of president of the DTTB and the first woman since the founding of the association in 1925. She succeeds Michael GEIGER who after six years as a President and previously five years as a vice-president for finances did not run again for an office in the DTTB executive committee.
„It shouldn’t really matter that I am the first woman. But we still have to fight for that and hopefully pioneers like me will make it easier for the younger girls” HERWEG says.
The long-term priorities of her office: “We have to get better in many areas and this can only be done together. I feel that unity is very important because we have very demanding tasks ahead of us. Together we are much stronger and can better market our incredibly fascinating and multi-faceted sport.”
