Martin Ohneberg new ÖTV President
The ÖTV is repositioning itself. Magnus Brunner, who was sworn in as Minister of Finance in December 2021, is resigning from the position of ÖTV President after 15 months. His successor is the previous Vice President Martin Ohneberg.
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last edit: Jan 27, 2022, 01:07 pm
Since January 26, 2022, the ÖTV executive committee has consisted of Martin Ohneberg and the vice presidents Elke Romauch (legal), Georg Blumauer (sport) and Jürgen Roth - the 48-year-old entrepreneur from Graz will take over the agenda of Ohneberg
economic area. The operational management by the two managing directors Thomas Schweda (business) and Jürgen Melzer (sport) guarantees continuity in the association alongside the previous members of the executive committee.
Magnus Brunner, who was sworn in as finance minister on December 6, 2021, cites time problems as the reason for his resignation. "Unfortunately, in my new function, there is no time left, the honorary post as ÖTV President in the previous one
to exercise form. However, Austrian tennis deserves a president who is intensively dedicated to this activity. That's why I had to make my position as ÖTV President available. "Another reason is that any
Incompatibilities should be ruled out from the outset. “With my new position as Minister of Finance, I am now responsible for state holdings, among other things. For compliance reasons, it therefore makes sense to resign from my voluntary work on ÖTV," says Brunner.
Brunner draws a positive balance
Of course, the Vorarlberger is sorry that he is no longer at the head of ÖTV. “It was a beautiful and exciting 15 months in which we achieved a lot together. A big thank you goes to the members of the Executive Committee, the regional associations, the office and the coaching team for the excellent cooperation. Tennis will always be my passion. The ideal successor was found in Martin Ohneberg, with whom I have been friends since we were young
found. I wish him and ÖTV all the best.”
Brunner draws a positive balance. "As a team, we managed to bundle the strengths in the tennis association and thus, despite Corona, achieved an upswing for domestic tennis." Brunner is particularly proud of the Davis Cup
To have brought the final tournament to Austria. "Even if things didn't go well for our team from a sporting point of view, we got to see world-class tennis in Innsbruck. The event was comparable in value to the football EURO 2008.” The budget was around five million euros.
The first business trip for the new president, Ohneberg, has already been booked: He will keep his fingers crossed for neo-captain Jürgen Melzer's Davis Cup team in South Korea at the beginning of March. "I'm very confident that we'll qualify again for
make it to the final tournament and play in the concert of the greats in November.”