1972, ISBN: e3190ac62f0e73fb0a30f8a4f39631cf

Gebundene Ausgabe

2019-12-31. New. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May be re-issue. Buy with confidence, excellent customer service!, 2019-12-31, Leipzig, Germ… Mehr…

2019-12-31. New. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May be re-issue. Buy with confidence, excellent customer service!, 2019-12-31, Leipzig, Germany: Edition Leipzig, 1968. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. Good in fair dust jacket. Signed by Brundage on half title. Tow cards of Brundage's assistant paperclipped to half-title. Also signed by author. DJ worm soiled, torn and chipped. Paperclip mark to title page.. 194, [2] p. (chiefly illus. (part col. ), ports. (part col. )); 30 cm. Bibliography. List and Explanations of Illustrations. Stamped on t.p. : Distributed by Sportshelf, New Rochelle, N.Y. From Wikipedia: "Avery Brundage (September 28, 1887 May 8, 1975) was the fifth president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), serving from 1952 to 1972. The only American to attain that position, Brundage is remembered as a zealous advocate of amateurism, and for his involvement with the 1936 and 1972 Summer Olympics, both held in Germany. Brundage was born in Detroit in 1887 to a working-class family; when he was five years old, his father moved his family to Chicago and subsequently abandoned his wife and children. Raised mostly by relatives, he attended the University of Illinois to study engineering and became a track star. In 1912, he competed in the Summer Olympics, contesting the pentathlon and decathlon, but did not win any medals; both events were won by Jim Thorpe. He won national championships in track three times between 1914 and 1918, and founded his own construction business. He earned his wealth from this company and from investments, and never accepted pay for his sports involvement. Following his retirement from athletics, Brundage became a sports administrator, rising rapidly through the ranks in United States sports groups. As leader of America's Olympic organizations, he fought zealously against a boycott of the 1936 Summer Olympics, which had been awarded to Germany before the rise of its Nazi government and its subsequent, escalating persecution of Jews. Although Brundage was successful in getting a team to the Games in Berlin, its participation was controversial, and has remained so. Brundage was elected to the IOC that year, and quickly became a major figure in the Olympic movement. He was elected IOC president in 1952. As president, Brundage fought strongly for amateurism and against commercialization of the Olympic Games, even as these stands came to be seen as incongruous with the realities of modern sports. His final Olympics as president, at Munich in 1972, was marked by controversy: at the memorial service following the murder of 11 Israeli athletes by terrorists, Brundage decried the politicization of sports and, refusing to cancel the remainder of the Olympics, declared "the Games must go on". Although Brundage's statement was applauded by those in attendance, his decision to continue the Games has since been harshly criticized, and his actions in 1936 and 1972 seen as evidence of anti-Semitism. In retirement, Brundage married a German princess; he died in 1975." Also from WIkipedia: "Heinz Schöbel (born 14 October 1913 in Leipzig, April 26, 1980 ) was a German publisher, author and senior sports official in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). He worked from 1955 to 1973 as President of the National Olympic Committee of the GDR and was from 1966 until his death, the International Olympic Committee (IOC )....Heinz Schöbel was born in 1913 as son of a metal worker in Leipzig, where he attended elementary school and played football in the Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Association. From 1928 to 1931 he studied in his native city, a training as a bookseller. From 1931 to 1935 he was assistant at F. Volckmar KG. From 1938 he worked as a department manager and officer at the Leipzig Paul List Verlag, which he headed from 1945. In the period 1934-1939 he was a member of the Reich Association of German Booksellers. From 1939 to 1945 he was a sergeant in an artillery regiment. After the end of World War II, he was first a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD) from 1946 he was a member of the Socialist Unity Party (SED ). In 1949 he founded the Leipzig trade book publisher, which he later headed. From 1968 to 1978 he was director of the German publishing for primary industries. Heinz Schöbel conducted from 1953 to 1958 the football section of the German Sports Committee, from 1958, the German Football Association of the German Democratic Republic was formed. From 1955 to 1973 he was President of the National., Edition Leipzig, 1968, Claudius Verlag München, 1972.., Claudius Verlag München, 1972.<

1972, ISBN: e3190ac62f0e73fb0a30f8a4f39631cf

Claudius Verlag München, 1972.., Claudius Verlag München, 1972., 0

1972, ISBN: e3190ac62f0e73fb0a30f8a4f39631cf

Claudius Verlag München, 1972.., Claudius Verlag München, 1972.