Carlo Montù

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Carlo Montù (born January 10, 1869 in Turin , † October 19, 1949 in Bellagio ) was an Italian officer , aviator , politician , engineer , football player and sports official .

Life

From 1886 to 1889 Carlo Montù attended the military academy in Turin and left it as an ensign of the artillery . He then attended special artillery training in Turin, before being transferred to Alexandria in 1890 as a lieutenant in the Libyan War . As an athlete, he was brought back home at his own request, returned to Turin, married, played football for Internazionale Torino from 1891 to 1898 (including in the final of the Italian championship in 1898, but the Internazionale lost to Genoa in extra time). As a professional soldier, he was one of the first state amateurs in Italy. At the same time he graduated as an electrical engineer and in 1897 was one of Galileo Ferrari's last graduate students . He then worked on the electrification of the railway, learned to fly and was one of the founders of the Aeroclub Torino . He joined the Constitutional Liberal Party and was elected to the Italian House of Representatives for the 23rd legislative period from 1909 to 1913 . In 1911 he was reactivated as captain of the artillery and belonged to the expedition army to Libya . Due to his experience as an aviator, he was used in aerial reconnaissance and the dropping of grenades. On January 31, 1912, near Tobruk, he was the first airman in the world to be shot at and hit from the ground - he flew the biplane only 9 meters above the ground, but was still able to land safely behind his own ranks. He was highly decorated and returned to Italy. With the beginning of the First World War he was reactivated and used in the training of the Air Force ( Scuola Aviatori ). In 1916 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel as commander of a bomber squadron , in 1918 he was promoted to colonel and fought mainly on the French front . During the First World War he was honored several times for bravery. After the end of the war he became civil commander of the Cividale del Friuli region before retiring. He wrote or published the first 14 volumes of the monumental history of Italian artillery from the Renaissance to the First World War. In 1943 he was reactivated with the rank of division general as an anti-fascist for the fight against the German occupation of Italy and assigned to the general staff without his own command. He received a variety of military awards. In WorldCat 44 different books are cataloged by him.

Career in sport

Due to his prominence as a football player and aviator, he was elected to the International Olympic Committee in 1913, where he represented the interests of Italy until 1939. From 1913 to 1929 he was also the President of the Regio Rowing Club Italiano and from 1913 to 1927 the President of the Italian Rowing Association . In 1915 he became Vice President of CONI , so that he was acting President of CONI 1920–1921 after the resignation of CONI President Carlo Compans de Brichanteau . He reorganized the National Olympic Committee and largely gave it its form as an association of associations, which is still valid today, so that not only the Olympic team is set up, but the entire sporting activities with all state sports facilities fall under the responsibility of the CONI. He relocated the headquarters of the association from Turin to Rome and recommended the professional associations to settle nearby. Although he had created the prerequisites for being elected President of the CONI with the chairmanship of the National Fencing Association (1919–1923), it remained with his brief engagement as Acting President. He had organized the financing of a large Italian Olympic team from 1920, led the team in Antwerp , but fell out with Coubertin at the 1921 IOC session in Lausanne , so that he resigned from all national Olympic positions out of anger and instead became the representative of football, Francesco Mauro , was elected as the new CONI President. Coubertin wanted to have his last Olympic Games as President in his native Paris , Montù, however, in Rome. Since Montù belonged to a Masonic lodge , he was a persona non grata with the fascists ; However, he continued to represent Italy in the IOC until the war began. In 1928 he had withdrawn into the self-chosen isolation on Lake Como . From 1945 to 1949 he was again president of the Italian Rowing Association as an anti-fascist. The rowing youth cup ( Coppa Montù ) donated by him is still held today.

Honors

Individual evidence

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  2. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2831716/The-bullet-hit-pilot-injured-war-Italian-ex-footballer-survived-turned-pendant.html
  3. http://raid.informare.it/docs/pdf/montu.pdf
  4. ^ Forcellese, Tito: L 'Italia ei Giochi olimpici: un secolo di candidature: politica, istituzioni e diplomazia sportiva. Milano: Angeli, 2013
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