Fredrik Meyer

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Fredrik Meyer sailing
Nationality: NorwayNorway Norway
Birthday: February 13, 1916
Place of birth: Oslo
Date of death: January 16, 1989
Place of death: Oslo
Society: Kongelig Norsk Seilforening
Boat classes: 6 meter class
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings Olympic games
silver Berlin 1936 6 meter class

Fredrik Meyer (born February 13, 1916 in Oslo , † January 16, 1989 ibid) was a Norwegian sailor and officer .

successes

Fredrik Meyer, who for the Kongelig Norsk Seilforening sailed, took in 1936 at the Olympic Games in Berlin in the 6 meter class part. He was a crew member of the Lully II under skipper Magnus Konow , which finished the regatta taking place in the Olympic harbor Düsternbrook in Kiel in second place. Although the Lully II won three of the seven races, it was disqualified in the first race and accordingly received no points for this race. In the overall standings she scored 66 points, one point less than the Olympic champions from Great Britain on the Lalage , while the Swedish boat May Be came third with 62 points. Meyer and Konow received the silver medal like the other crew members Vaadjuv Nyqvist , Alf Tveten and Konow's son Karsten Konow .

During the Second World War , Meyer escaped to Little Norway in Canada and served as a pilot in the Norwegian Air Force until the end of the war . From 1952 to 1954 he was aide-de-camp of King Haakon VII and was promoted to major in 1953 . From 1955 he was secretary of the Order of Saint Olav before he was finally head of the order's secretariat as chancellor from 1971 to 1978. Meyer himself was in command of the order and also received the Knight's Crosses of the Icelandic Order of Falcons , the Dutch House Order of Orange , the Swedish Order of the Sword and the Order of the Star of Ethiopia .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bjørn Steenstrup: Meyer, Fredrik. In: Hvem er Hvem? Project Runeberg , 1973, accessed August 20, 2020 (Norwegian).