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“The EHF has really been lucky to go to Vienna. As the bid for the Olympics turned into a disaster, the promises made by Berlin were becoming increasingly vague” Former EHF Vice President Hans-Jürgen Hinrichs (2014) 28
Whoever enters the European Handball Federation’s headquarters at Hoffingergasse 18 in Vienna quickly gains a vivid impression of the international orientation and professionalism of the umbrella organisation’s administration – phone conversations going on everywhere, offices bustling with activity. Today, the EHF and its subsidiary EHF Marketing employ a staff of 57 from 17 nations in the south-west of Austria‘s capital. Conversations are therefore held not only in typically Viennese dialect, but also in the Hungarian, Danish, French, Serbian and Polish languages and, most importantly, in English. Today, 25 years after the EHF’s foundation, its administration is organised in a large number of different departments. Every member of the staff has clearly defined duties in their respective areas of work. Some of them work for Competitions, the department headed by Markus Glaser. Others, directed by David Szlezak, take care of marketing and organisation of the VELUX EHF Champions League. Others again, inspired by Helmut Höritsch, drive activities in the Education & Development Department. The department managed by Christoph Gamper dedicates all its time and effort to IT equipment and facility support. And then there are the specialists, headed by JJ Rowland, who focus exclusively on the EHF’s website and social media maintenance, as the fans’ thirst for news and moving images from European handball is known to be insatiable. And, of course, in an active sporting federation comprising 50 nations and many partners, the Finance and Legal Management Departments also play an essential role. The very top of the organisation is formed by Strategic Business under the leadership of Secretary General Michael Wiederer. The General Secretariat is not only responsible for organising EHF Congresses and Executive meetings, but also serves as the central body controlling communication and the umbrella organisation’s promotional activities. This department is nothing less than the hub of European handball. The many queries and ideas from the member federations that converge at this point are centrally collected and organised to form the basis on which this “think tank” discusses and develops concepts for the future of European handball. This, of course, is always done in close collaboration with the higher-level body of elected representatives serving in commissions whose first origins can be traced back to the year 1991, but which have become increasingly numerous and specialised in the course of the 25 years of EHF history. In a way, they mirror the stakeholders’ diverse interests in the umbrella organisation. After the EHF Congress, which meets every two years, the next most important body is the Executive Committee, which meets to discuss and decide key sports-political issues between the Congresses. The Executive Committee also considers motions submitted by the Professional Handball Board (PHB), the Women’s Handball Board (WHB) and the Nations Board (NB) in pursuit of the interests of national federations and clubs. The Congress elects the chair persons of the Competitions Commission (CC), the Methods Commission (MC), the Beach Handball Commission (BC), the Comptrollers and the legal bodies: the Court of Handball, the Court of Appeal and the EHF Court of Arbitration Council. The work of the Competitions Commission, the Methods Commission and the Beach Handball Commission (BC) provides direct input to the meetings of the Executive Committee, as their respective chair persons are ex officio members of the Executive Committee. The structure and development of these bodies and institutions, whose members serve on an honorary basis, also reflect the 25 years of EHF history. This history started on 15 November 1991 at a deeply symbolic place: the Dom Hotel at Berlin’s Gendarmenmarkt in the eastern part of the city whose Wall came down in November 1989, an event that significantly accelerated the disintegration of the two large political blocs. The EHF’s foundation had been prepared in detail in a number of informal meetings held after the 1990 IHF Congress in Madeira. Further important meetings of the acting commissions convened in Manchester (GBR) and Frankfurt (GER) in the spring and summer of 1991. 29
Page 5 and 6: 25 YEARS EUROPEAN HANDBALL FEDERATI
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