The Executive Committee of the German Volleyball Association (DVV) resigned after the majority of the national volleyball associations and the national volleyball league had voted no confidence in them.
President René Hecht and Vice-Presidents Volker Schiemenz, Holger Schell and Matthias Hach have resigned, the association announced. Board member Julia Frauendorf is also leaving the DVV.
According to the presidium, the state associations and the volleyball federal league had withdrawn their confidence at a crisis meeting in Göttingen last weekend. The conflict in the association has been smoldering for months.
Numerous officials left in strife. Especially Hecht and the Frauendorf supported by him, which should modernize the DVV, were controversial. In the year that was so important for the Olympic qualification, this was a constant source of unrest.
Bad administration
Record national player Hecht, who has led the association since 2018, was reportedly accused of poor administration in economic and structural terms, accompanied by sporting failures of the national teams.
Hecht was quoted as saying in the message: “The majority of the state associations and the volleyball league no longer want to go along the path of renewal. They are now taking responsibility for everything that is to come.”
Attorney Katharina Dierlamm remains in office at the DVV as Vice-President, as do the co-opted members of the Executive Committee Janine Stanelle (DVJ), Maren Fromm (athlete spokesperson) and Daniel Sattler (VBL). Frauendorf is to accompany the orderly transition to a new presidency.