DTTB Assembly elects new Supervisory Board

The German Table Tennis Association (DTTB) has taken the next step in its major structural reform. At the extraordinary Federal Assembly in Frankfurt am Main the full assembly elected the new Supervisory Board. The candidates received overwhelming majorities with some receiving no opposing votes at all.

The new president is Konrad GRILLMEYER who has been leading the Bavarian Table Tennis Association since 2016.

One of the most well-known of the all vice-presidents on the Supervisory Board is ZDF sports reporter and presenter table tennis expert and active player Norbert KÖNIG. His new colleague at the DTTB Christian SOMMER is CEO and Chairman of the German Centre for Industry and Trade Shanghai a subsidiary of Bayern LB and has outstanding contacts and knowledge of the business world. Dr. Hans-Jürgen HACKENBERG the former DTTB Vice President for Finance has had a long career as the commercial director of two major university hospitals. 

Along with Konrad GRILLMEYER Uwe SCHLÜTTER is the second serving president from DTTB member associations on the members’ list.He has led the Thuringian Association since 2014 and as the managing director of the SPD parliamentary group in the Thuringian state parliament is an insider of the political scene.

Michael BACHTLER is the former head of the traditional table tennis company JOOLA. As the manager Andreas PREUSS is the creative mind and driving force behind German record champion Borussia Düsseldorf. As Vice President for Youth the Thuringian entrepreneur Ralf TRESSELT had already been elected by the Youth Council and was confirmed by the Federal Assembly for the new Board.

Former automobile manager Hans Wilhelm GÄB in his role as DTTB Honorary President remains an ex-officio member of the new Supervisory Board.

The list is not completed. The proposal that German representatives in ITTF or ETTU executive bodies have a position on the DTTB Supervisory Board by virtue of their office was accepted but still needs to be formally implemented in the statutes.

The Board consist of the President Honorary President eight Vice Presidents (7 elected or confirmed members by the Federal Assembly plus max. two executive board members from ITTF/ETTU)

The tenth-largest Olympic sports association will be led by a small salaried full-time Managing Board in future. The members of the new Supervisory Board which will remain unpaid will appoint the Managing Board and coordinate with it the policy guidelines of the association.

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