Ernest L. Jahncke

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Ernest Lee Jahncke, 1930

Ernest Lee Jahncke (born October 13, 1877 in New Orleans , Louisiana , † November 16, 1960 ibid) was American Undersecretary of State in the Navy and a member of the International Olympic Committee . Prior to the 2002 fraud scandal, he was the only IOC member ever to be expelled.

Life

After studying engineering at Tulane University and the Naval Academy , Jahncke joined his father's shipyard ( Jahncke Shipbuilding Company ). He was the engineer (member of the American Society of Civil Engineers ) who built the levee around New Orleans from the West End to the Spanish Fort . President Edgar Hoover appointed him Undersecretary of State in the Navy (1929-1933). He was a delegate to the Republican electoral meetings . In the navy, the committed sailor , who was proud of his German origins, was appointed admiral ( Commodore ). He was a member of the International Olympic Committee from 1926 to 1936. After the DJK clubs were banned in Germany, the committed Catholic campaigned for the 1936 Olympic Games to be moved away from Germany. In his steadfastness for an Olympic boycott, neither the President of the IOC Henri de Baillet-Latour nor the President of the American Olympic Committee Avery Brundage dissuaded him. At the IOC meeting in Berlin in 1936, he was expelled from the IOC, formally correct, because he had only attended one of nine meetings in the ten years of his membership. With Avery Brundage, who had been very committed to the participation of the American team in the Nazi Games , being elected as his successor, it was obvious that the IOC wanted to part with a Democratic opponent and instead preferred an authoritarian friend of the Nazis. In November 1935, the American IOC member Jahncke wrote to IOC President Baillet-Latour:

"If our committee allows the games to take place in Germany, then they will no longer symbolize the unity of physical strength and fair play, because nothing will differentiate them from the Nazi ideal of brutal strength."

- Jahncke, quoted in sueddeutsche.de .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John A. Lucas (1991). Ernest Lee Jahncke: The Expelling of an IOC Member. Stadium 17 (1), 53-78.
  2. ^ Arnd Krüger : The Olympic Games 1936 and the world opinion. Its importance in foreign policy, with particular reference to the USA. (= Sports science work, Vol. 7). Bartels & Wernitz, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-87039-925-2 .
  3. ↑ Not being there is everything. In: sueddeutsche.de . May 17, 2010, accessed October 13, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Jahncke, Ernest L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jahncke, Ernest Lee
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sports official, entrepreneur, Undersecretary of State in the Navy
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH New Orleans , Louisiana
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1960
Place of death New Orleans , Louisiana