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ROBERT
ATLASZ
Sport:Official/Administrator
Inducted: 1996
Country: Germany and Israel
Born: 1898, in Germany
Died: 1990
Dr. Atlasz was a leader of the German Maccabi movement during the rise
of Nazism in the mid-1930s and deputy chairman of Berlin’s Bar Kochba
organization. He became director of Maccabi Germany in 1933 and led the
German delegation to the 1935 Maccabiah Games.
Two years later, Atlasz settled in Palestine, serving the Maccabi World
Union as its chairman of Track and Field from 1937 to 1952 and sports director
from 1939 to 1965.
Dr. Atlasz, a dentist, was in charge of sports for the World Maccabiah
Games of 1950, 1953, 1957, and 1961. He had been a member of the Israel
Olympic Committee from 1959 until his passing and represented Israel at
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