Albert Mayer was educated at the Basle School of Commerce and the Lausanne Officers’ School. Mayer was the brother of Otto Mayer, long-time IOC Chancellor, with whom he ran the family jewelry business. Albert Mayer was a bobsled enthusiast who was President of the FIBT from 1930-60. In politics Albert Mayer served as Mayor of Montreux (1947-51, 1956-60) and was President of the Montreux and Vevey District Radical Party from 1937-41. Co-opted onto the IOC in September 1946 he served until his death in December 1968. He forcefully expressed his opinions, which were not always popular, especially at the 1951 IOC Session, when the Soviet Union was granted IOC recognition but Israel was not. Mayer complained that the IOC seemed to deal differently with nations depending on if they were a world power. His brother Otto Mayer was Chancellor of the IOC from 1946 to 1964.
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