Austrian Olympic Committee

Austrian Olympic Committee
Founded	1908
Place of foundation	Vienna
Homepage	www.olympia.at

The Austrian Olympic Committee (abbreviation ÖOC ) was founded on March 16, 1908 as an association of the largest Austrian sports organizations (including swimming committee, sports committee for light athletics and football association).

history

Austria's athletes and supervisors for the 2012 Olympic Summer Games with ÖOC President Karl Stoss

As early as 1896, the “Committee for the Olympic Games in Athens for Austria” was founded under the chairmanship of Count Wilczek , Count Lamezan-Salins and Theodor Harmes . In January 1900 a new “Committee for the Charging of the Olympic Games in Paris” was formed. Members were, for example, Count Alexander Thurn and Taxis and Prince Heinrich Liechtenstein . Since Austria was represented in St. Louis in the USA in 1904 only by the swimmer Otto Wahle , no separate committee was founded. The Austrian abroad Julius Lenhart won the mixed Turner twelve fight. Internationally, however, Lenhart is listed as an American, although he never had American citizenship.

In 1905, Alexander Prinz zu Solms-Braunfels (1855–1926) was the 43rd member for the first time an Austrian was accepted into the International Olympic Committee (IOC). This was preceded by an article in the Allgemeine Sport-Zeitung on September 25, 1904 , in which the editor Victor Silberer (1846-1924) had expressed his dismay that both Hungary and Bohemia were represented by delegates in the International Olympic Committee , Austria however it was missing. Solms-Braunfels tried during his tenure vehemently to the removal of Bohemia from the IOC. He resigned from his position in December 1908 in protest against the exclusion of the Czech representative Jiří Guth (1861-1943), which was rejected in particular by President Pierre de Coubertin (1863-1937) . Solms-Braunfels determined the lawyer Gustav Magg (1871-1909) as his successor, but this was not confirmed by the IOC. In 1909 Magg died and Austria had no IOC member until 1911.

Alexander Prinz zu Solms-Braunfels (photo taken around 1893): first Austrian member of the IOC from 1905

Between 1909 and 1935 the association was called the Central Sports Committee , Central Association for Common Sports Interests and then the Austrian Main Association for Body Sports , before returning to the original name of the Austrian Olympic Committee on June 19, 1935 .

After the dissolution of the association in the course of annexation to Germany , the association was re-established on December 11, 1946, and after the Second World War Austria, unlike Germany, was allowed to take part in the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz .

Because of the doping scandal during the 2006 Winter Games, the ÖOC was fined one million US dollars by the IOC .

President of the ÖOC

Karl Stoss (left) and Peter Mennel, President and Managing Director of the ÖOC (2018)

• Balduin Groller (1908–1912)
• Otto Herschmann (1912-1914)
• Rudolf Graf Colloredo-Mannsfeld (1914-1919)
• Theodor Schmidt (1929–1938)
• Josef Gerö (1946–1954)
• Heinrich Drimmel (1956–1969)
• Heinz Pruckner (1969–1972)
• Kurt Heller (1973–1990)
• Leo Wallner (1990-2009)
• Karl Stoss (since 2009)

Members

The following associations are members of the ÖOC:

I) Olympic Sports Associations

• Austrian Badminton Association
• Austrian baseball and softball association
• Austrian basketball association
• Austrian Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation
• Austrian Archery Association
• Austrian Boxing Association
• Austrian Curling Association
• Austrian Ice Hockey Association
• Austrian Figure Skating Association
• Austrian Speed ​​Skating Association
• Austrian Fencing Association
• Austrian Football Association
• Austrian Weightlifting Association
• Austrian Golf Association
• Austrian Handball Federation
• Austrian Hockey Association
• Austria Sportschützen professional association throwing target and combination
• Austrian Judo Association
• Austrian Canoe Association
• Austrian Karate Federation
• Climbing Association Austria
• Austrian Athletics Association
• Austrian Association of Modern Pentathlon
• Austrian Equestrian Federation
• Austrian Cycling Association
• Austrian Wrestling Association
• Austrian Toboggan Association
• Austrian Rowing Association
• Austrian Rugby Association
• Austrian Rifle Federation
• Austrian Swimming Association
• Austrian Sailing Association
• Austrian Ski Association
• Austrian Taekwondo Association
• Austrian Tennis Association
• Austrian table tennis association
• Austrian Triathlon Association
• Austrian Association for Gymnastics
• Austrian volleyball association

II) sports organizations

• Austrian federal sports organization
• Working group for sport and physical culture in Austria
• General Sports Association of Austria
• Sports union

literature

• Heinz Jungwirth (Red.): Festschrift of the Austrian Olympic Committee. ÖOC 1946–1986 . ÖOC, Vienna 1986, OBV .
• Erwin Roth (Red.): Olympic snapshots, 1894–2008. 100 years of ÖOC . Austrian Olympic Committee (ed.), Vienna 2008, OBV .
• Michael Wenzel: The Olympic Movement in Austria. A historical contribution from a sporting and structural point of view in the sense of the Olympic idea . Thesis. University of Vienna, Vienna 2013. - Full text online (PDF; 4 MB) .

Web links

• Official website of the ÖOC

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Historical origin and development from 1894 to 1938 ( Memento of the original dated February 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on the ÖOC website on January 31, 2010. 
2. ↑ Historical origin and development from 1894 to 1938 . In: oeoc.at , accessed on March 10, 2014.
3. ↑ V (ictor) S (Silberer):  The Congress of the Comité International Olympique. In:  Allgemeine Sport-Zeitung. Weekly for all branches of sport , year 1904, September 25, 1904, No. 88/1904 (XXV. Year), p. 1203, center left. (Online at ANNO ). .
4. ^ Wenzel: The Olympic Movement in Austria , p. 17 f.