DOSB plans Olympic application
“Will not give a correct or wrong decision”
11.09.2025 – 6:44 p.m.Reading time: 4 min.
Otto Fricke is the new CEO of the DOSB. The official burns for sport-and a German Olympic application.
Melanie Muschong reports from Frankfurt
And that is exactly what Otto Fricke, the new CEO of the German Olympic Sports Association (DOSB) since September, knows. The 59-year-old sat for the FDP from 2002 to 2013 and then again in the Bundestag from 2017 to 2025. Most recently, he was a budgetary spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group-now he is devoting himself to the future of German sport.
In conversation with T-Online, the official emphasized that the sport in this country was very important in this country, but also a problem. “We focus this importance very strongly on the core of the top sport. Namely: winner, winner, world champion, records,” said Fricke. This is good and important. “But we have to make it clearer that sport is part of the entire society,” he says. This would give countries such as Norway or the Netherlands.
Fricke emphasizes: “They show that sport is part of social interaction. Where do I still meet someone who is not in my bubble? Earlier in the restaurant, but only in the club today, and that over generations. Sport is in the middle of society. These are not just the super athletes.”
Also at schools it is not just about the highest score in the federal youth games, but about the cooperation. “We often forget that you can not only measure success from who has achieved what, but also from the obstacles you have overcome to get where you are,” said Fricke. He wants more regular movement at a young age: “It starts in kindergarten and is even more than the question of daily school sport. The French showed us that Olympic games can also be used to integrate daily movement into everyday primary school life.”
Fricke used to do a lot of sport himself. He was never a performance athlete, but he tried various sports. He played basketball and volleyball at school, and he was also able to get excited about swimming. During a press conference in Frankfurt, he also emphasizes: “I still played badminton and I was an enthusiastic alpine ski driver. I did a lot of cross -country skiing when I studied in Freiburg. I also played baseball.