Vaduz/Liechtenstein (RWH) Baron Eduard Alexandrowitsch von Falz-Fein, an honorary member of the International Luge Federation (FIL), celebrated his 103rd birthday on 14 September 2015 in his adopted home town of Vaduz, Liechtenstein. The FIL congratulated him with a bouquet of flowers. Baron von Falz-Fein, who acted as FIL treasurer for many years (1962 to 1977) was presented with his honorary membership in 1978. He is an entrepreneur, patron of the arts, and was formerly an active journalist, sportsman and sports official. The baron played a major role in the inclusion of the sport of luge in the Olympic programme as well as the Olympic movement in Liechtenstein. His professional and family ties to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) made him a driving force behind Liechtenstein’s first appearance at the Olympic Games in 1936, when the country was without IOC membership. He was later instrumental in the recognition of luge as an Olympic discipline. Baron von Falz-Fein also took part in the 1936 Olympic Winter Games as an athlete, coming in eighteenth in the two-man bobsleigh. He subsequently served in a variety of positions, several of which on behalf of the FIL, at a total of sixteen Olympic Games.