Your career at the Center for Sports Management

Leading the way into sports business.

The Center for Sports and Management offers WHU students as well as external prospects excellent opportunities to enter the sports business - both in practice and in science. Former employees and alumni of Professor Schmidt now work at some of the finest addresses in the sports business, including the German Football League (DFL), the German Football Association (DFB) or German record football champion FC Bayern Munich. Have we aroused your interest in a career at the CSM? Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or suggestions.

The CSM offers internal and external doctorate programs on the “future of sports”.

Find out more about our doctorate program and kindly send your application including motivational letter, CV and transcripts to Kerstin Forword (Kerstin.forword(at)whu.edu).

Subsequent to a successful application, you will receive two online interviews with Prof. Schmidt and Jun.-Prof. Dominik Schreyer. The objective of the interviews is to get to know one another: a high personal fit is crucial for the small team at our center and hence a top priority for us. Therefore, please feel free to also use this opportunity to ask questions and to find out more about what we do, how we work and what your day-to-day life as a doctorate student would look like. As part of the interviews, we will also work through a case study to evaluate problem solving abilities. Shortly after the interviews, you will, of course, receive detailed feedback.

Should you have further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us!

Making an impact on the sports business world –
Get to know our CSM alumni.

Top athletes at WHU –
Meet some of our former students.

Dana Glöß
Class of 2016 (PT MBA)

Track Cycling
Greatest Successes:
- 3rd Place at World Championships
- 5x German Champion

 

Benjamin Starke
Class of 2016 (PT MBA)

Swimming
Greatest Successes:
- World Champion (Relay) 
- Vice World Champion 
- Olympian 
- Former Leader of the World Ranking

 

Christian Friedrich
Class of 2017 (PT MBA)

Bobsleigh

Greatest Successes:
- Vice World Champion 
- 3rd Place at German Championships

Thomas Lurz
Class of 2017 (PT MBA)

Open Water Swimming
Greates Successes:
- World Champion 
- European Champion  
- Olympic Silver Medal
- Olympic Bronze Medal

 

Daniel Hermann
Class of 2018 (PT MBA)

Ice Dance
Greatest Successes:
- German Champion
- German Junior Champion

 

Nicolas Limbach
Class of 2018 (PT MBA)

Fencing
Greates Successes:
- 2x World Champion
- Vice European Champion
- 7x German Champion

 

Birte Steven-Vitense
Class of 2018 (PT MBA)

Swimming
Greates Successes:
- German Champion
- Olympian
- World Cup Participant

 

Norman Ackermann
Class of 2019 (PT MBA)

Fencing
Greatest Successes:
- Olympic Bronze Medal (Team)
- Vice World Champion (Team)
- World Cup Champion (Juniors)
- World Champion (Juniors)
- 3x German Champion (Team)

 

Ibrahim Ahmadsei
Class of 2019 (PT MBA)

Taekwondo 
Greatest Successes:
- Olympic Silver Medal (Juniors)
- European Champion (Students)
- 4x German Champion

 

Eileen Hoffmann
Class of 2019 (PT MBA) & Class of 2017 (SPOAC)

Field Hockey 
Greatest Successes:
- Vice World Champion
- 2x European Champion 
- 6x German Champion
- 233 Internationals

 

Hagen Rothe
Class of 2019 (FT MBA)

Rowing
Greatest Successes:
- World Champion (Juniors)
- Vice World Champion (U23)
- Vice World Champion (Juniors)
- German Champion

 

Christian Hochbruck
Class of 2020 (PT MBA)

Rowing
Greatest Successes:
- World Champion
- Multiple U23 World Champion

 

Ilja Immermann
Class of 2020 (PT MBA)

Water Polo
Greatest Successes:
- German Champion
- German Cup Champion
- German Youth Champion
- International since 2010

 

Daniela Schreiber
Class of 2017 (FT MBA)

Swimming
Greatest Successes:
- European Champion (Relay)
- Vice World Champion (Relay)
- Olympian

 

Andreas Späck
Class of 2017 (FT MBA)

Field Hockey 
Greatest Successes:
- German Champion (Field & Indoor) 
- Europa Cup Champion (Indoor) 
- European Champion (Indoor) 

 

Max Keller
Class of 2019 (FT MBA)

Boxing
Greatest Successes:
- German Champion 
- German Team Champion

 

Vanessa Low
SPOAC

Track and Field
Greates Successes:
- Paralympic Gold Medal
- Paralympic Silver Medal
- World Champion 
- European Champion

 

Richard Becker
Class of 2016 (SPOAC)

Tennis 
Greatest Successes:
- Quarter-finalists Australian Open (Juniors) 
- Quarter-finalists French Open (Juniors) 
- World Ranking No. 336 

 

Felix Reuß
Class of 2016 (SPOAC)

Field Hockey 
Greatest Successes:
- European Champion (Field & Indoor)
- Winner Champions Trophy
- German Champion

 

Martin Schmitt
Class of 2016 (SPOAC)

Ski Jump
Greates Successes:
- 2x World Champion (Single)
- 2x World Champion (Team)
- 2x World Cup Winner
- Olympic Gold Medal

 

Amelie Kober
Class of 2017 (SPOAC)

Snowboard 
Greatest Successes:
- World Cup Winner 
- Olympic Silver Medal
- Olympic Bronze Medal
- Vice World Champion

 

Normann Stadler
Class of 2017 (SPOAC)

Triathlon 
Greatest Successes:
- 2x Ironman World Champion

 

André Weßels
Class of 2017 (SPOAC)

Fencing
Greatest Successes:
- Vice World Champion
- World Champion (Team) 
- Olympic Bronze Medal (Team) 

 

Contact

Get in touch with us –
We look forward to hearing from you.

Kerstin Forword
Project Manager

+49 (0)211 44709 746
kerstin.forword(at)whu.edu