Kalevi Olin

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Kalevi Olin (2009)

Kalevi Anders Wilhelm Olin (born October 5, 1945 in Pyhäjärvi Ul ) is a Finnish social democratic politician, professor of the social sciences of sport and an official of the Finnish Workers' Sports Association .

Life

After high school and military service (NCO), Olin studied sport at the University of Jyväskylä . He graduated as a qualified sports teacher and continued his studies at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign , where he received his doctorate in sports sociology under Günther Lüschen in 1972 (Diss .: Personality Traits of College Students Participating in Recreational Sports , 1972) . Back in Jyväskylä , he worked his way up from assistant to professor in the social science department of the sports faculty before retiring in 2005.

From 1980 to 2011 he was a member of the Jyväskylä City Council for the Social Democrats. From 1998 to 2011 he was a member of the regional parliament of Central Finland , from 1995 to 2007 he represented the Social Democratic Party of Finland as a member of the Finnish Reichstag , from 2003 to 2007 he was one of the representatives of Finland in the Council of Europe in Strasbourg . He ran for the European Parliament without success .

From 1983 to 1995 he was the chairman of the Regional Association of Finnish Workers' Sports (TUL), from 1995 to 2007 the chairman of TUL Finland. From 1996 to 2008 he was President of International Workers' Sport ( Confédération Sportive Internationale du Travail (CSIT)) before he was elected Honorary President. His task was to transform international workers 'sport into a mass sports organization that is increasingly breaking away from its roots in the workers' parties and unions. Just as the Finnish Workers' Sports Association had already been a pioneer in opening up to middle-class mass and amateur sport, Kalevi now, as a social scientist, carried out member surveys in order to establish a broad basis for the transformation process away from the exclusive ties to the labor movement towards a general mass sport in to find broad consensus.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leena Laine: TUL. The Finnish Worker Sport Movement. In: Arnd Krüger and James Riordan (eds.): The Story of Worker Sport. Champaign, Ill .: Human Kinetics 1996, 67-96. ISBN 0-87322-874-X
  2. ↑ Kalevi Olin (ed.) (2013). Sport, Peace and Development. International Worker Sport. 1913 - 2013. Vienna: CSIT ISBN 978-3-9503593-1-2
personal data
SURNAME Olin, Kalevi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Olin, Kalevi Anders Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish sports scientist, parliamentarian and sports official
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Pyhäjärvi ul