The Presidium of the DEB At the regular meeting of the Presidium on October 05.10.2021th, XNUMX, the current media reporting and the allegations against the DEB and the DEB-President Franz Reindl.
The DEB-Presidium unanimously rejects all allegations as unfounded.
Regardless, this has DEB-Presidium of the renowned law firm for white collar criminal law Verte | Lawyers from Cologne were commissioned to independently and fully clarify the facts that gave rise to the allegations. The investigations are carried out under the direction of lawyer Dr. Christian Schmitz carried out.
We also note that the DOSB Ethics Committee is not responsible and has now declared itself not responsible. Proceedings by the ethics committee against the DEB, Presidium or Franz Reindl was consequently not opened. Statements to the contrary are simply wrong.
According to the DEB The DOSB ombudsman, Mr. Felix Rettenmaier, was already responsible for accepting the petition from the so-called whistleblower, according to information from the ethics committee, Mr. Hendrik Ansink, EHV Hessen, not responsible. Why he nevertheless took action and prepared his report on September 10.09.21th, XNUMX will still need to be examined in detail.
It is also intolerable that submissions to the DOSB Ombudsman for Good Governance Matters and the forwarding to the DOSB Ethics Commission become known publicly and in the media before the association or person concerned has been informed of them. From a data protection perspective, it is also unacceptable for the whistleblower's documents to be given to him despite repeated requests DEB were not made available.
The DEB is taking legal action against the reporting of "Spiegel". In our opinion, the media report of September 24.09.2021, XNUMX is unlawful for several reasons. Among other things, it contains the false claim that the report speaks of an initial suspicion of allegations against Mr. Reindl. In fact, nowhere in the report does it say that there is an initial suspicion of allegations against Mr. Reindl. The quotes attributed to the DOSB ombudsman are not in the report. We are looking forward to the Spiegel's statement.
The World Ice Hockey Association IIHF has filed proceedings against Mr. Wolff-Dietrich Prager, first chairman of the state ice sports association, for manipulation of the IIHF elections Schleswig-Holstein opened, warned this in writing and passed the matter on to the IIHF Ethics Committee because Mr. Prager acted in an unfair and intolerable manner the night before the election to the IIHF Presidium and IIHF Council, from September 24th to 25.09.2021th, XNUMX, by email. mail to Mr. Reindl's competitors for the election of the IIHF President as well as some IIHF electors, forwarded the "Spiegel" media report containing false representations to them and also damaged Mr. Reindl and the entire German ice hockey with unjustified discrediting words. Also the DEB is preparing legal action against Mr. Prager.
Unfortunately, the significant sporting, organizational and especially economic development of the country is lost throughout the campaign DEB and ice hockey during the seven-year term of office of this executive committee and the extremely collegial treatment of almost all of the 102nd members.
The DEB rejects false allegations and prejudgments and will take all legal measures to prevent this DEBto protect its officials and employees.