In Memoriam

Colonel Paul Millard Wimert Jr (USA), FEI Official Judge in Eventing and Dressage, died on 21 March 21, 2005, following a courageous battle with Parkinson’s disease aged 83.

Paul was born 6 July 1921. Upon graduation from the University of Maryland in 1943, he entered the US Army as a second lieutenant and served with great distinction in World War II. In 1947, he attended the Spanish Riding School in Vienna. In 1952, as a student and then an instructor in the Armoured School in Fort Knox, KY, he was one of the first to participate in three-day events, and won the first continuous horse trials in the USA. Paul Wimert was instrumental in the development of the sport in America. His love of horses took his career to Venezuela as the Technical Advisor to the Venezuelan Cavalry in 1953. This success took him to various other assignments, over an 18-year time frame, as the Army Attaché in Bolivia and Chile, where he was able to combine his love of horses and his job as the US Army’s representative to these countries. In 1973, Colonel Wimert retired from the US Army with honours.