Eduard von Falz-Fein | |
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 Falz-Fein (right) with Vladimir Putin in 2001 | |
| Born | 14 September 1912 Gavrilovka, Kherson uezd, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire[a] |
| Died | 17 November 2018 (aged 106) Vaduz, Liechtenstein |
Baron Eduard Oleg Alexandrowitsch von Falz-Fein (14 September 1912 – 17 November 2018) was a Liechtensteiner businessman, journalist, and sportsman.
Von Falz-Fein was born in Havrylivka, Beryslav Raion, Kherson Oblast, Russian Empire (now in Ukraine).[1] His Father Alexander Eduardovich is an agronomist, brother of the founder of the Askania-Nova biosphere reserve in Southern Ukraine, Friedrich von Falz-Fein, mother Vera Nikolaevna is from a family of generals and admirals of the Russian fleet Yepanchins.
He served as a "sports diplomat" who under his initiative, alongside Woldemar von Falz-Fein, formed the Olympic movement in Liechtenstein and was vice president of the Liechtenstein Olympic Committee in the mid-1930s.[2][3]
In 1951 and from 1953 until 1973, he was President of the Liechtenstein Cycling Association. Falz-Fein funded much of the research on the identification of the Romanov family remains. He turned 100 on 14 September 2012.[4] He was a cousin of an Olympic bobsledder Eduard Theodor von Falz-Fein (1912–1974).[5][6] Falz-Fein died in a house fire in Vaduz on 17 November 2018 at the age of 106.[7][8] At the time of his death, Eduard was the oldest living resident of Liechtenstein.[9]
