Giulio Onesti

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Giulio Onesti (born January 4, 1912 in Turin , † December 11, 1981 in Rome ) was an Italian lawyer and sports official.

Life

Onesti was successful in rowing and epee fencing . After graduating from law school, he became a lawyer. As a war volunteer, he fought as a lieutenant in World War II on the Yugoslav front. Here he was injured by a shot in the shoulder, changed sides in 1943 and joined the Resistenza . His sports career ended due to the war injury.

After the liberation of Rome in 1944, he was used as a commissioner to wind up the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI). As a member of the Socialist Party, however, he was soon convinced that sport could be democratized from the inside out, and was initially appointed acting president in 1945 and president of CONI in 1946, which he remained in 9 re-elections until 1978. As in Germany, the socialist Onesti believed that the CONI could be redesigned according to socialist principles, and therefore considered a re-establishment of a workers' sports association to be unnecessary. When this democratization failed, the socialists and communists of Italy founded the Unione Italiana Sport Popolare (UISP) as a separate workers' sports association in 1948 . He was therefore accused of having distanced himself further and further from socialist principles.

In 1948 Onesti signed a contract with the Italian government, according to which the tote income would be shared equally between the CONI and the government. Through his work, Italy - in contrast to Germany - was able to take part in the 1948 Olympic Games and has not been absent from any Olympic Games since then. Thanks to the good financial resources, Onesti succeeded in bringing the 1956 Winter Olympics to Cortina d'Ampezzo and the 1960 Summer Olympics to Rome. In 1964 he was elected a member of the International Olympic Committee and became the founding president of the General Assembly of the National Olympic Committee . In connection with the Olympic Games in Rome, he founded the athletes' training center for the Olympic Games in the suburb of Acqua Acetosa and named after him after his death. Onesti also founded the Italian Olympic Academy in which he cooperated with the UISP. Acqua Acetosa is also home to the academy with the largest sports library in Italy. On the occasion of the 30th anniversary, the event took place in 1996 for 30 days for 30 years. a. the founding congress of European sport historians took place.

Honors

  • Olympic Cup
  • Italian Olympic Academy is named Onesti
  • The training center in Acqua Acetosa bears his name
  • The sport and culture foundation of the CONI bears his name
  • Flambeau d'or (Panathlon)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Giulio Onesti - Biografia. Retrieved November 17, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Franz Nitsch: Why was there no workers' sports movement after 1945? Sports science. 6: 2, pp. 172-199 (1976)
  3. ^ Gherarducci Mario: Onesti, l'avvocato che ricostruì lo sport italiano. Corriere dela Sera, December 9, 2001, accessed December 1, 2015 (Italian).
  4. ↑ Giulio Onesti - Biografia. Retrieved December 1, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Arnd Krüger & Angela Teja (eds.): La comune eredità dello sport in Europe: atti del 1st Seminar Europeo di Storia dello Sport; Roma, Scuola dello Sport - CONI 29 November - 1 December 1996.
personal data
SURNAME Onesti, Giulio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian sports official
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Turin
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1981
Place of death Rome