Jørgen Hviid
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Died | 5 September 2001 Helsingør, Denmark | (aged 85)||||||||||||||||
Known for | Kjøbenhavns SF hockey team founder and multi-sport athlete | ||||||||||||||||
Awards | IIHF Hall of Fame | ||||||||||||||||
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Allegiance | Royal Danish Navy | ||||||||||||||||
Service/ | Danish Brigade in Sweden | ||||||||||||||||
Rank | Commander | ||||||||||||||||
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Jørgen Alfred Hviid (Latvian: Jergens Alfreds Hvīds; 1 September 1916 – 5 September 2001) was a Danish and Latvian multi-sport athlete, and an officer in the Royal Danish Navy. He was primarily an ice hockey player, but also competed in speed skating and sailing.
Hviid grew up in
Early life
Hviid was born 1 September 1916, in Moscow.[1][4][5] His father worked as a wholesale merchant.[6] Hviid's father moved the family business from Moscow due to the Russian Revolution, and fled to Denmark. The family moved again to Riga in 1921, but later returned to Denmark in 1934, due to the changing political situation in Latvia.[2][3]
Hviid attended school in Riga,
Hockey career
Hviid started playing organized ice hockey in 1931 as a
In 1938, Hviid founded the ice hockey team within the
Hviid retired from playing hockey after the 1961 season, when he skated alongside his son and won a Danish ice hockey league championship.[2] As a coach, Hviid focused on skill development, and trained players to be powerful skaters.[3] He later became a member of the Danish Ice Hockey Union in 1982,[1] and then served on its board of directors from 1988 to 2001.[3]
Hviid became an officer in the Royal Danish Navy in the autumn of 1939 in Copenhagen.[6] During the occupation of Denmark in World War II, he served in the Danish resistance movement with the Danish Brigade in Sweden, where he trained with the Swedish Navy and then led a Danish flotilla in Karlskrona.[6][10] He later achieved the rank of Commander (Danish: Kommandørkaptajn).[6]
After the war ended he was in charge of minesweepers and reconnaissance, then held defence posts at the Holmen Naval Base, Langeland, Bornholm, Stockholm and Helsinki. He later captained the HDMY Dannebrog. He was named the Navy's sports officer and sat on the International Military Sports Council. In 1961, Hviid was a maritime advisor in the filming of Black Shara: Alarm in the Baltic Sea.[6]
Personal life
Hviid married Ellen Schmidt on 23 June 1941, in Birkerød Church.[6] The couple had two sons, Torsten and Jesper, who later played on the Danish national team at the 1962 Ice Hockey World Championships in Colorado Springs, Colorado.[2][3]
Hviid later acted as the head of the Danish Olympic sailing team in Tallinn, for sailing at the 1980 Summer Olympics. He died in Helsingør,[6] on 5 September 2001 at age 85.[10]
Posthumous honours
Hviid was posthumously inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame as a builder in 2005.[3][11] He was made a member of the Danish Ice Hockey Hall of Fame in 2014, and is an honorary member of the Danish Ice Hockey Union.[3]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g "2.516 Jorgen Hviid". Legends of Hockey. Hockey Hall of Fame. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f Fredberg, Peter (15 August 2014). "Tre ishockeylegender blev optaget i Hall of Fame". BT Ishockey (in Danish). Retrieved 5 February 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Hall of Fame: Jørgen Hviid – dansk ishockeys fader". Danish Ice Hockey Union (in Danish). 8 March 2017. Retrieved 24 June 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f g Bektemirov, Farid (30 August 2012). "Последняя статья рубрики в этом году – о "папе" датского хоккея". Championship (in Russian). Retrieved 24 February 2019.
- ^ a b c "Jørgen Hviid". Elite Prospects. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Kommandørkaptajn Jørgen Hviid". dansk film database (in Danish). Retrieved 5 February 2019.
- ^ a b c d e Kristensen, Thomas Møller (27 April 2003). "Ishockey: En minderig afklapsning". jyllands-posten.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 5 February 2019.
- ^ "Erik Hviid". Elite Prospects. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
- ^ a b "Championnats du monde de hockey sur glace 1949". hockeyarchives.info (in French). Retrieved 5 February 2019.
- ^ a b "Jørgen Alfred Hviid". Modstandsdatabasen (in Danish). Retrieved 5 February 2019.
- ^ "IIHF Hall of Fame Inductees". Hockey Hall of Fame. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
External links
- Father of Danish hockey learned hockey in Latvia (HFBoards - NHL Message Board and Forum for National Hockey League)