Henri de Baillet-Latour, Count of Baillet-Latour (1 March 1876 – 6 January 1942) was a Belgian aristocrat and the third president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Early life
Henri de Baillet-Latour was born in Brussels, Belgium, on 1 March 1876. He was the oldest of three children. His father was Count Ferdinand de Baillet-Latour, former governor of the Province of Antwerp, and his mother was Countess Caroline d'Oultremont de Duras. The 1920 Games turned out to be a huge success despite the short notice,
International Olympic Committee
When Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Movement, retired from the presidency in 1925 and becoming Honorary President, Henri de Baillet-Latour was elected as his successor.
He was re-elected for a second term as IOC President in June 1933 and held the office for 17 years until his death in 1942. Baillet-Latour opposed boycotting the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games.
After the 1936 Summer Olympics, he became an honorary member of Freude und Arbeit, the Nazi sports organization led by German propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. In 1938, his wife congratulated Hitler when he annexed the Sudetenland.