Alphert Schimmelpenninck van der Oye

Alphert Schimmelpenninck van der Oye (1928)

Alphert Baron Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Heer van Hoevelaken (born April 6, 1880 in Bussum , † April 30, 1943 in Baarn ) was a Dutch local politician and sports functionary.

family

Alphert Schimmelpenninck van der Oye came from one of the most respected families in the Netherlands, he was the great-nephew of the Dutch Foreign Minister Willem Anne Schimmelpenninck van der Oye (1800–1872).

Alphert Schimmelpenninck van der Oye's first marriage was Henriette Suzanne Frederique Huyssen van Kattendijke. The marriage entered into in 1905 was divorced in 1930 and had three daughters. The youngest daughter was Gratia Schimmelpenninck van der Oye , a successful skier in the 1930s . In the same year he married Minette Adrienne "Miesje" van Lennep (1892–1975), the mother of the later resistance fighter Esmée van Eeghen ; the couple had a son, Sander.

During the occupation of the Netherlands by the German Wehrmacht , stepdaughter Esmée was shot by the Germans, her brother Dave died in 1945 in Buchenwald concentration camp . Another member of the family, Alexander Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, was executed by the Germans in August 1942 in retaliation for acts of sabotage by resistance groups.

Mayor's office

Schimmelpenninck lived in this house with his family during his time as Mayor of Doorn

In 1909 Alphert Schimmelpenninck van der Oye became mayors of Doorn and Maarn . In 1920 the former German Emperor Wilhelm II came to Doorn to take up residence in Haus Doorn . In the following years the mayor had regular personal contact with the ex-emperor.

Sports

Schimmelpenninck van der Oye was very athletic himself and became the first Dutch master in epee fencing in 1909 .

In April 1925, Schimmelpenninck van der Oye was elected chairman of the Dutch National Olympic Committee , succeeding Frits van Tuyll van Serooskerken, who had died the year before . At first it was little known in public - unlike its bustling predecessor - but convinced with calm, deliberation and humor. His term of office did not end until his death in 1943.

When the Second Chamber of the Netherlands decided not to support the organization of the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam financially, as it was an event with a "pagan character", Schimmelpenninck van der Oye reacted with unusually sharpness, also to the displeasure of his own party friends the Christelijk-Historische Unie (CHU): “In 1896 we were there for four years in various countries. Thans what het our beurt om gastheer te zijn. Nederland heeft zich door het Kamerbesluit gedegradeerd tot de klasse van internationale klaplopers. "(Dt. =" We have been guests in different countries every four years since 1896. Now it was up to us to be the host. The Netherlands decided by this chamber decision degraded to international parasites. ”) On his initiative, a fund was set up in which 1.5 million guilders were collected within two weeks. He himself managed the organization of the games with his usual calm, which were then generally praised.

When, in the run-up to the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, critical voices were raised against the event there, Schimmelpenninck van der Oye was convinced that the Games would take place in an Olympic atmosphere and with respect for Olympic ideals.

His last trip abroad and, at the same time, his last official act for the IOC was a trip to Brussels in order to attend the funeral service for the Belgian IOC President Henri de Baillet-Latour in the company of one of his daughters in January 1942 , an undertaking that actually according to the regulations the German occupier was not allowed. According to the description of the daughter, the German sports officials Carl Diem and Karl von Halt had traveled with a delegation of high-ranking Nazi officers. The German delegation laid a wreath with a swastika in the name of the “Führer” and the IOC, which caused horror among the family members. After a pause of embarrassed silence, her father made a funeral speech and made it clear that he was the one attending the funeral service on behalf of the Swedish IOC's deputy president, Sigfrid Edström .

Honors

In Doorn, a street is named after Alphert Schimmelpenninck van der Oye.

Web links

Commons : Alphert Schimmelpenninck van der Oye  - collection of images

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alphert baron Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, heer van Hoevelaken, burgemeester van Doorn en Maarn, benoemd voorzitter van het Nederlands Olympisch Comité. (No longer available online.) Europeana, archived from the original on December 26, 2014 ; Retrieved December 25, 2014 . 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.  
2. ↑ ^{a b} Mr. Alphert baron Schimmelpenninck van der Oye. sthabenonderzoek.com, accessed December 25, 2014 (Dutch). 
3. ^ Elias van der Plicht / Anja Marbus: Eeghen, Esmée Adrienne (1918-1944). Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland, January 13, 2014, accessed December 24, 2014 (Dutch). 
4. ↑ Gerrit Kobes: Fusillade in de Goirlese bossen. (No longer available online.) Tilburg regional archive, archived from the original on December 26, 2014 ; Retrieved December 26, 2014 (Dutch). 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.  
5. ↑ Jurryt van de Vooren: Vergeten sporthelden: baron Schimmelpenninck van der Oye. (No longer available online.) Sportgeschiedenis.nl, March 23, 2009, archived from the original on December 25, 2014 ; Retrieved December 25, 2014 (Dutch). 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.  
6. ↑ Nederlandse Kampioenen Schermen. (PDF; 1.2 MB) Koninklijke Nederlandse Algemene Schermbond, accessed on December 25, 2014 (Dutch). 
7. ↑ ^{a b c} Alphert, baron Schimmelpenninck van der Oye (1880-1943). NOC * NSF, accessed December 25, 2014 (Dutch). 
8. ^ Amsterdam 1928. NOC * NSF, accessed December 26, 2014 (Dutch). 
9. ↑ André Swijtinks: Netherlands . In: Arnd Krüger, William Murray (Ed.): The Nazi Olympics. Sport, Politics and Appeasement in the 1930s. University of Illinois Press, Urbana IL et al. 2003, ISBN 0-252-02815-5 , p. 215.
10. ↑ . Anthony Th Bijkerk: Setting The Record Straight. What actually happened at the funeral of Count Henri de Baillet-Latour, President of the International Olympic Committee from 1925 to his death in 1942. In: Journal of Olympic History. Vol. 7, No. 2, 1999, ISSN  1085-5165 , pp. 9-13, ( digital version (PDF; 240.95 kB) ).
11. ↑ Dorpsgezicht Doorn. (No longer available online.) Dorpsgezicht-doorn.nl, archived from the original on December 26, 2014 ; Retrieved December 25, 2014 (Dutch). 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.