Erik von Frenckell
Erik von Frenckell (born November 18, 1887 in Helsinki , † September 13, 1977 in Espoo ) was a Swedish-speaking Finn , whose ancestors immigrated from Germany. He was a businessman, a member of the Finnish Parliament , a member of the International Olympic Committee , President of the Football Association of Finland and at times Vice-President of FIFA .
Life
After high school he studied in Germany in line with family tradition and returned in 1912 as a graduate engineer for electrical engineering from the Technical University of Dresden . He worked as technical director for Emissions AB, and later for Finlands Bank . In 1917 he was elected to the Helsinki city council for the Swedish-speaking minority and sent to the embassy in Berlin as a commercial attaché. In 1918 he returned and fought on the side of the whites in the Finnish Civil War . From 1927 to 1939 he was a member of the Finnish Parliament. When Helsinki applied for the 1940 Olympic Games in 1932 , he was the Deputy Mayor of Helsinki and built the Olympic Stadium, which then only had to be expanded for the 1952 Games in Helsinki .
Functional activities
Von Frenckell was President of the Finnish Football Association from 1918 to 1952 and a member of the FIFA Executive Committee from 1927 to 1932 (here also Vice President of FIFA) and from 1950 to 1954. From 1948 to 1976 he was a member of the International Olympic Committee . In the dispute between his bourgeois and communist Finnish workers ' sport, von Frenckel succeeded in obtaining a compromise of a starting community for the Olympic Games in 1947, so that the Finnish workers' athletes were no longer excluded from the Olympic Games. This gave him such a reputation in the Eastern Bloc that Avery Brundage liked to use him as a negotiator to bring the USSR into the Olympic family. Von Frenckell was not only the person in charge who managed to bring the games to Helsinki, who led the games to a success as President of the Organizing Committee, but he was also the Lord Mayor of Helsinki, who made sure that the stadium, city, Olympic Village became a sustainable entity. His attempt to help the GDR to participate, however, failed. Contrary to Brundage's ideas, he also fulfilled the special requests of the USSR and its allies (including their own Olympic village, in order not to have any 'harmful' contacts with the West) without a murmur and showed that the special path of Finlandization for a country on the border with the USSR was possible without a loss of national identity.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Personal directory of the Royal. Saxon. Technical college for the winter semester 1911/12
- ^ Erik von Frenckell biography (in Finnish), accessed December 18, 2015.
- ↑ SPL100: Puheenjohtajisto vieraili by Frenckellin haudalla ( Finnish ) Finnish Football Association. May 19, 2007. Archived from the original on December 22, 2015. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 18, 2015.
- ^ Olympic Museum, Members of the International Olympic Committee since 1933 , accessed December 18, 2015
- ^ Arnd Krüger (1982). Germany and the Olympic Movement (1945–1980). Horst Ueberhorst (ed.). History of Exercise. Volume 3/2 (pp. 1051-1059, 1069-1070). Berlin: Bartels & Wernitz.
- ↑ Baron Erik von Frenckell . In: Der Spiegel . No. 45 , 1951 ( online - Nov. 7, 1951 ).
- ^ Arnd Krüger : Sport and Politics, From the gymnastics father Jahn to the state amateur. Hanover: Torch bearer 1975. ISBN 3-7716-2087-2 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Frenckell, Erik von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Baron Erik von Frenckell (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish entrepreneur, mayor, member of the Parliament of Finland and sports official |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 18, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Helsinki |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 13, 1977 |
| Place of death | Espoo |