Evald Mikson
| Evald Mikson | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| birthday | July 12, 1911 | |
| place of birth | Tartu , Livonia Governorate | |
| date of death | December 27, 1993 | |
| Place of death | Reykjavík , Iceland | |
| position | goalkeeper | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1934-1939 | JS Estonia Tallinn | |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1934-1939 | Estonia | 6 (0) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Evald Mikson (later Icelandic : Edvald Hinriksson , * June 29 jul. / 12. July 1911 greg. In Tartu ; † 27. December 1993 in Reykjavík ), a goalkeeper in was Estonian national football team from 1934 to 1939 and deputy police chief of the Estonian capital Tallinn during World War II .
At the end of the war, Mikson fled from the advancing Red Army to Sweden , where, however, after a hearing by a Swedish court, he was considered an undesirable person and a war criminal and rejected. In 1946 he was taken to a ship to Venezuela in Halden , Norway . However, the ship ran aground on the Icelandic coast, the survivors were taken in by Iceland. The USA refused Evald Mikson the requested visa. Mikson stayed in Iceland and worked as a physical therapist .
Mikson was charged by the Simon Wiesenthal Center (in particular by Efraim Zuroff ) with serious war crimes committed against Jews . In 1993, following foreign pressure and heated internal political disputes, the Icelandic government initiated an investigation into the allegations. Mikson died before charges could be brought.
Mikson was the father of soccer players Jóhannes Eðvaldsson (* 1950, Celtic Glasgow ) and Atli Eðvaldsson (1957-2019, including Borussia Dortmund , Bayer 05 Uerdingen and Fortuna Düsseldorf , later also coach of the Icelandic national soccer team ).
successes
Web links
- Wiesenthal Center to death Mikson (English)
- Iceland, the Jews, and Anti-Semitism, 1625-2004 (English)
- Persecuted or persecutor? The story of the world's most wanted football player ( Memento from September 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) In: Sweet Left Foot. (English)
- Evald Mikson in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Margus Luik: Estonian Football 100 years . ML Agency, Estonia 2009, ISBN 978-9949-18-257-2 , p. 288.
- ↑ a b Fortuna hero Edvaldsson († 62) When Atli offered me meatballs with jam , express.de , September 3, 2019
- ^ Phase II: The German occupation of Estonia in 1941–1944 . Estonian International Commission for Investigation of Crimes Against Humanity . Retrieved July 13, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mikson, Evald |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hinriksson, Eðvald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Estonian soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 12, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tartu |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 27, 1993 |
| Place of death | Reykjavík |