Dieter von Landsberg-Velen

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Maximilian Dietrich Graf von Landsberg-Velen and Gemen (born December 17, 1925 at Wocklum Castle near Balve , Westphalia ; † April 15, 2012 in Hamm , North Rhine-Westphalia ) from the noble family of the Lords of Landsberg was a German sports official and president of the Malteser Auxiliary Service Germany.

Life

Maximilian Dietrich von Landsberg-Velen was one of five children from the marriage of Max Graf von Landsberg-Velen and Gemen (1889–1957) and Consuelo Freiin von Oer (1893–1987). Three of his four siblings lost their lives in World War II. Landsberg-Velen took part in the war after graduating from high school in 1943 and was taken prisoner by the British in 1945 as a lieutenant . After an agricultural internship from 1946 to 1947 he studied from 1947 to 1951 law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn . During his studies he took over his parents' agricultural and forestry business at Wocklum.

In 1955 Landsberg-Velen married Monika Countess von Westphalen zu Fürstenberg (* 1932), a daughter of the politician Karl von Westphalen . The marriage resulted in the daughters Maria Barbara (* 1960), Maria Rosalia (* 1962), Maria Veronika (* 1964) and Maria Theresia (* 1967). The adoptive son of Maximilian Dietrich Graf von Landsberg-Velen and his wife Monika is the eldest grandson of the family, Jakob Graf von Landsberg-Velen (born July 25, 1987 in Frankfurt am Main).

Order of Malta

Landsberg-Velen had been a member of the Order of Malta since 1950 and was director from 1957 to 1980, and from 1980 to 1992 the first elected president of the German Maltese Aid Service . During his tenure, the number of members rose from 1,800 to over 600,000 members.

He was involved in organizing the first foreign missions in Hungary in the 1950s and in Vietnam from 1966 to 1975 .

After his resignation as president, Landsberg-Velen was appointed honorary president of the Malteser Auxiliary Service.

Equestrian sport

Landsberg-Velen was also active as a sports official (nicknamed Reiter-Graf). Since 1948 he was the director of the Balver riding club and from 1948 to 2007 he was in charge of the nationally known equestrian tournament Balve Optimum , which he accompanied until his death.

He was also the founder and, from 1968, President of the German Equestrian Association for many years , before he resigned from this office in 2001 and was elected honorary president. In addition, Landsberg-Velen was for a long time Vice President of the World Equestrian Federation (FEI).

Landsberg-Velen was Vice President of the German Sports Confederation since 1974 and was a member of the Presidium of the National Olympic Committee for Germany . In 1980 he was one of those who spoke out in favor of a boycott of the Olympic Games in Moscow after the invasion of Afghanistan by the USSR . In recent years he has campaigned for the merger of the German Sports Association and the National Olympic Committee to form the German Olympic Sports Association .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Count Landsberg-Velen is no longer alive ; St. Georg , April 15, 2012
  2. ^ Entry in Geneall , accessed on April 16, 2012
  3. ↑ Sportschloss Velen, Landsberg-Velen family: Jakob Graf von Landsberg-Velen . Retrieved February 20, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Landsberg-Velen, Dieter von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Landsberg-Velen and Gemen, Maximilian Dietrich Graf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports functionary, President Malteser Hilfsdienst
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Wocklum Castle
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 2012
Place of death Hamm