German Olympic Sports Confederation

The German Olympic Sports Confederation (German: Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund or DOSB) was founded on 20 May 2006 by a merger of the Deutscher Sportbund (DSB), and the Nationales Olympisches Komitee für Deutschland (NOK) which dates back to 1895, the year it was founded and recognized as NOC by the IOC.

German Olympic Sports Confederation
Country/Region Germany
CodeGER
Created1895
Recognized1895
Continental
Association
EOC
HeadquartersFrankfurt am Main, Germany
PresidentThomas Weikert
Secretary GeneralTorsten Burmester
Websitewww.dosb.de

Seated in Frankfurt am Main, it represents 89,000 clubs and 27,000,000 members, about a third of the population of Germany.

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