Mr Berthold BEITZ

Education

Matriculation; commercial training in banking and industry

Career

Commercial employee of Shell Ltd., Hamburg (1939); Commercial Director of Karpaten-Oel GmbH, Borislaw, Poland (1941); Vice-President of the zonal office of the Reich control bureau for insurance in Hamburg (1946); Director General of Induna-Germania Society (insurance company, 1949); Chief Executive of Dr Alfried Krupp von Bohlen & Halbach (sole proprietorship Fried Krupp, 1953); Chairman and executive member of the Board of Trustees and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen & Halbach Foundation (1967-); Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Fried Krupp GmbH (1970-1989) then Honorary Chairman of the Supervisory Board (1989-1999); Honorary Chairman of the Supervisory Board of ThyssenKrupp AG (1999-)

Sports practised

Sailing, shooting, rowing

Sports administration

Member of the Board of the NOC (1972-2006); member of the Board of Directors of the Organising Committee for the Games of the XX Olympiad in Munich in 1972; President of the Administrative Council of the Olympic sailing events in Kiel (1966-1972)

IOC History

Member of the IOC from 1972 to 1988; Honorary Member since 1988; member of the Executive Board, Vice-President of the IOC (1984-1988); member of the following Commissions: Finance (1974-1988), New Sources of Financing (1983-1984), Olympic Movement (1984-1988), Preparation of the XII Olympic Congress (1985-1988), Council of the Olympic Order (1984-1988); Honorary Chairman of the Olympic Museum Foundation (1989-)