Marc Hodler

Marc Hodler (born October 26, 1918 in Bern ; † October 18, 2006 ibid) was a Swiss sports official and member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

Due to an accident in 1938, he had to end his skiing career. He was then head of the Swiss ski team from 1939 to 1948, Vice-President of the Swiss Olympic Committee from 1940 to 1951 and, among other things, was responsible for the alpine competitions of the 1948 Winter Olympics .

In 1951, Hodler was appointed President of the International Ski Federation (FIS). After a "world record" of 47 years, he gave up this post in 1998 to Gian-Franco Kasper , the then FIS General Secretary from St. Moritz . Under Hodler's leadership, the FIS developed into one of the most important sports associations.

Since 1963 he was an elected member of the IOC for life and worked in various functions. One of his goals, the abolition of the IOC amateur rule, he was able to achieve in 1981 under Juan Antonio Samaranch , against whom he could not prevail in the 1980 election for the IOC presidency. In 1985 he became a member of the executive branch (until 2002) and was Vice President of the IOC from 1993 to 1997. At the end of 1998 he uncovered the bribery scandal surrounding the awarding of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

Outside of sports, he was a lawyer and had advisory functions in sports associations.

Web links

• Former presidents of the FIS
• Andrea Weibel: Hodler, Marc. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .