Archambauld Anatole de Talleyrand-Périgord
Count Archambauld Anatole de Talleyrand-Périgord (born March 25, 1845 in Florence , † April 18, 1918 in Lausanne (Switzerland)) was a Silesian landowner, officer and sports functionary.
The Silesian landowner joined the Prussian army in 1864 , where he was involved in motorization. In 1900 he was promoted to general . In 1899 he was a member of the preparatory committee for the German participation in the 1900 Olympic Games in Paris. In this capacity he was appointed as a member of the International Olympic Committee , which he remained until 1903.
He was a founding and honorary member of the Silesian Automobile Club in Breslau , founded on June 7, 1901 under the patronage of Charlotte von Sachsen-Meiningen , Princess of Prussia, and in this capacity in 1905 also the Imperial Automobile Club, which in that year a simple renaming of the Berlin automobile club, which had existed since 1900, was re-established. He campaigned for the International Motor Show in Berlin, the forerunner of today's IAA .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Arnd Krüger : Neo-Olympism between nationalism and internationalism, in: Horst Ueberhorst (Hrsg.): Geschichte der Leibesübungen , Vol. 3/1, Berlin: Bartels & Wernitz 1980, 522-568
- ^ Braunbeck's Sport Lexicon, 1910
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2014 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.
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| SURNAME | Talleyrand-Périgord, Archambauld Anatole de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Count Archambauld Anatole de Talleyrand-Périgord (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Silesian landowner, Prussian general, sports functionary, founder of the automobile club |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 25, 1845 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Florence |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 18, 1918 |
| Place of death | Lausanne |