Karl Heinz Klee

Karl Heinz Klee ( born June 9, 1930 in Innsbruck, † September 21, 2008 in Rum, Austria ) was an Austrian sports official and lawyer.

Life

Karl Heinz Klee was an avid skier and has studied as a lawyer regularly with questions of ski law. He was president from 1966 to 1972 and since then Honorary President of the Austrian Ski Federation. He became famous when he revolted at the Olympic Winter Games in 1972 on the exclusion of Karl Schranz, due to previous unauthorized advertising: "Sport has always and everywhere operated professionally. " He was founder and president of the Austria ski pools, Secretary General of the Organizing Committee of the. XII. Winter Olympics (1973-1977), president and honorary president of the Austrian Ski Federation and the Innsbruck Skirennläufervereinigung, honorary member of the Austrian Olympic Committee, Expert for snow law and expert on Attorney's costs right.

By 2007, Klee was chairman of the Committee on Legal Issues and Security of the International Ski Federation FIS. He was also Secretary General of the Organizing Committee of the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck in 1976 and a member of the International Sports Court in Lausanne and President of the Tyrolean Chamber of Lawyers.

As a lawyer, took a doctorate in law the Austrians in the blood bag affair during the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and the doping scandal of Turin 2006. Hermann Maier also recounted his motorcycle accident to his client. He was until recently worked in his profession.

Karl Heinz Klee was the Great Silver Medal of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria, the honor of the Province of Tyrol, the Ring of Honour of the City of Innsbruck and the honor of the Province of Styria and Commandeur de l' Ordre National du Mérite and Knight of the Royal Swedish since 1972 support Polarstern Order.

Karl Heinz Klee died on 21 September 2008. He leaves a wife and a daughter.

Honors

• Pierre de Coubertin Medal, 1976