The 1936 Summer Olympics torch relay was the first of its kind, following on from the reintroduction of the Olympic Flame at the 1928 Games. It pioneered the modern convention of moving the flame via
Siegfried Eifrig carrying the Olympic Flame at the end of the relay
The Berlin Olympic Torch
Carl Diem
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Carl Diem was a German sports administrator, and as a Secretary General of the Organizing Committee of the Berlin Olympic Games, he was also the chief organizer of the 1936 Olympic Summer Games.
1936 Summer Olympics torch relay
…above the stadium in Amsterdam. Four years later the same was repeated in Los Angeles. At both of these events the flame was lit on site at the stadium. Carl Diem used the idea of the torch relay devised for the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin by a Jewish archaeologist and sports official, Alfred Schiff. According…
Diem in 1913 at Princeton University
Lewald and Diem in St. Moritz, 1928
Carl Diem in the 1950s