Karl von Venningen-Ullner von Diepurg

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Baron Karl von Venningen-Ullner von Diepurg (born January 15, 1866 in Riegerding , Upper Austria ; † October 25, 1914 in Domèvre-en-Haye , Lorraine ) was a German landowner, sports functionary and Prussian cavalry officer.

Life

The Grand Duke of Baden Chamberlain , from the family of the Lords of Venningen , was Majorate Lord at Eichtersheim and Prussian Rittmeister a. D. (1885-1898). He had bought Solms Castle in Baden-Baden in 1897 and was active in the local racing club, from 1908 to 1914 as chairman. After being an active wrestler in his youth, he was elected to the International Olympic Committee in 1909 as the successor to Egbert Hoyer von der Asseburg . In 1912 he belonged to the three-person commission of the IOC together with the Dutch IOC member Baron Frederik Willem Christiaan Hendrik van Tuyll van Serooskerken and the Swedish Viktor Balck , which was supposed to collect and systematize the errors and problems of the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm in order to help them the Olympic Games in 1916 not to repeat in Berlin. In the First World War was reactivated by Venningen-Ullner, served as squadron leader of the established in August 1914 1. Country Storm Squadron of the XIV. Corps (German Empire) and the first winter of the war at the top was already made at the beginning of his squadron at Domèvre .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City wiki Baden-Baden
  2. ^ Karl Reinbothe: International races in Baden-Baden: 150 years of the Iffezheim racecourse . Baden-Baden: Wesel Kommunikation 2008, p. 22
  3. ^ Arnd Krüger : Neo-Olympism between nationalism and internationalism. Horst Ueberhorst (ed.): History of physical exercises , Vol. 3/1, Berlin: Bartels & Wernitz 1980, pp. 522-568.
  4. ^ Ansgar Molzberger: The 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm - "Patriotic" Games as a breakthrough for the Olympic movement. Diss. Sport University Cologne 2010
  5. ↑ https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/olb/struktur.php?archiv=4&klassi=4& AnzeigeKlassi= 4.03.007.002.007 . %&inhaltHauptframe=naeheres& AnzeigeId=13840&letztesLimit=&syssuche=&logik = .
  6. ↑ http://www.denkmalprojekt.org/2010/vl_kuerass-reg_graf_gessler_nr_8_offiz_wk1.htm
personal data
SURNAME Venningen-Ullner von Diepurg, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Venningen-Ullner von Diepurg, Baron Karl von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landowner, sports functionary and Prussian cavalry officer
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Riegerding , Austrian Empire
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1914
Place of death Domèvre-en-Haye , France