Karl Heinz Klee

Karl Heinz Klee (1930 to 2008) was an Austrian lawyer and sports official from Innsbruck who became one of the leading legal voices in alpine skiing. A doctor of law, he served as President of the Tyrolean Bar Association and was a recognised expert on skiing law and the law of costs. He led the Austrian Ski Federation as president from 1966 to 1972 and stayed on as its honorary president, founded the Austrian Ski Pool, and chaired the Committee on Legal Issues and Security of the International Ski Federation until 2007. At the 1972 Winter Olympics he protested the exclusion of the skier Karl Schranz over unauthorized advertising, and he served as Secretary General of the organizing committee of the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck. He represented the Austrian federation in doping cases arising from the 2002 and 2006 Winter Olympics, was a member of an international sports arbitration court in Lausanne, and received several Austrian and foreign state honours before his death in 2008.