Alexander zu Solms-Braunfels (sports official)

Alexander Prince of Solms-Braunfels (1855–1926), 1893

Prince Alexander zu Solms-Braunfels (born November 4, 1855 in Podiebrad , Bohemia , † June 3, 1926 in Nieder-Ingelheim am Rhein ) was an Austrian sports official .

Life

Alexander was the second and youngest son of Friedrich Wilhelm Carl Prinz zu Solms-Braunfels (1812–1875) and his second wife Sophie zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg (1814–1876).

After studying agriculture at the University of Vienna , zu Solms-Braunfels embarked on a military career and was a colonel in World War I and the commander of the voluntary k. and k. Automobile corps. He served as the private secretary of the Austrian emperor. From 1903 to 1909 he was President of the Austrian Automobile Club . In 1899 he was the president of the preparatory committee for Austria's participation in the 1900 Olympic Games in Paris. In 1905 he became a member of the International Olympic Committee , where he campaigned for the exclusion of Bohemia because it was only an Austrian province. However, since Pierre de Coubertin campaigned for the Bohemian IOC member Jiří Guth and the remaining of Bohemia with an independent team in the sense of the special Olympic geography, he resigned from the IOC in 1909. Solms-Braunfels was one of the pioneers of balloon flight and made its first own flight as early as 1881.

His only son from his marriage to Espérance Freiin von Erlanger , daughter of the banker Ludwig Gottlieb Friedrich von Erlanger , Prince Karl (* 1892), fell in the northern theater of war in October 1914 .

literature

Solms-Braunfels, Alexander zu . Tagblattarchiv. (Press comment). 1 sheet, (Vienna) 1926, OBV .

Individual evidence

↑ Wilfried Schimon: Austria-Hungary's motor vehicle formations in World War 1914-1918: a contribution to the history of technology in World War II . Klagenfurt: Mohorjeva Hermagoras 2005. ISBN 978-3-708-60243-1 .
↑ 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. MA University of Vienna 2013. [1]
^ Arnd Krüger : Neo-Olympism between nationalism and internationalism. Horst Ueberhorst (Ed.): History of physical exercises , Vol. 3/1, Berlin: Bartels & Wernitz 1980, 522-568.
^ Carl Calliano (1857–1934) (Red.): Baden in the field of honor 1914–1915. Fourth war number of the "Badener Stadtgeschichtlichen Blätter". Official organ of the "Familien-Chronik" association in Baden (ed.). December 1915, p. 37 (unpaginated).

personal data
SURNAME	Solms-Braunfels, Alexander zu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Solms-Braunfels, Prince Alexander zu (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian sports official
DATE OF BIRTH	November 4, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH	Podebrady , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH	June 3, 1926
Place of death	Nieder-Ingelheim on the Rhine

[1] Wilfried Schimon: Austria-Hungary's motor vehicle formations in World War 1914-1918: a contribution to the history of technology in World War II . Klagenfurt: Mohorjeva Hermagoras 2005. ISBN 978-3-708-60243-1 .

[2] 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. MA University of Vienna 2013. [1]

[3] Arnd Krüger : Neo-Olympism between nationalism and internationalism. Horst Ueberhorst (Ed.): History of physical exercises , Vol. 3/1, Berlin: Bartels & Wernitz 1980, 522-568.

[4] Carl Calliano (1857–1934) (Red.): Baden in the field of honor 1914–1915. Fourth war number of the "Badener Stadtgeschichtlichen Blätter". Official organ of the "Familien-Chronik" association in Baden (ed.). December 1915, p. 37 (unpaginated).