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Max Rufus Mosley (born 13 April 1940) is the former president of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), a non-profit association that represents the interests of motoring organisations and car users worldwide. The FIA is also the governing body for Formula One and other international motorsports. A qualified barrister and former amateur racing driver, Mosley was a founder and co-owner of March Engineering, a successful racing car constructor and Formula One racing team. He dealt with legal and commercial matters for the company between 1969 and 1977 and became its representative at the Formula One Constructors' Association (FOCA), the body that represents Formula One constructors. Together with Bernie Ecclestone, he represented FOCA at the FIA and in its dealings with race organisers. In 1978, Mosley became the official legal adviser to FOCA. In this role he and Marco Piccinini negotiated the first version of the Concorde Agreement, which settled a long-standing dispute between FOCA and the Fédération Internationale du Sport Automobile (FISA), a commission of the FIA and the then governing body of Formula One. Mosley was elected president of FISA in 1991 and became president of the FIA, FISA's parent body, in 1993. Mosley identified his major achievement as FIA President as the promotion of the European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP or Encap). He has also promoted increased safety and the use of green technologies in motor racing. In 2008, stories about his sex life appeared in the British press, along with unfounded allegations regarding Nazi connotations. Mosley successfully sued the newspaper that published the allegations and maintained his position as FIA president. He stood down at the end of his term in 2009 and was replaced by his preferred successor, Jean Todt. Mosley is the youngest son of Sir Oswald Mosley, former leader of the British Union of Fascists (BUF), and Diana Mitford. He was educated in France, Germany and Britain before going on to attend university at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated with a degree in physics. He then changed to law and was called to the Bar in 1964. In his teens and early twenties Mosley was involved with his father's post-war political party, the Union Movement (UM). He has said that the association of his surname with fascism stopped him from developing his interest in politics further, although he briefly worked for the Conservative Party in the early 1980s. ==Family and early life== His father, Sir Oswald Mosley was a Labour minister, and a Member of Parliament for both the Conservative and Labour parties in the 1920s. By the 1930s, he had left mainstream politics and become the leader of the British Union of Fascists (BUF). His first wife died in 1933, and in 1936 Sir Oswald married Diana Mitford, in a ceremony in Germany attended by Joseph Goebbels and Adolf Hitler. Max was born in London in April 1940 during the early days of the Second World War. In May, Sir Oswald, who had campaigned for a negotiated peace with Nazi Germany, was interned by the British Authorities under Defence Regulation 18B, along with most other active fascists in Britain. Lady Mosley was imprisoned a month later. Max and his brother Alexander were not included in this internship and as a result were separated from their parents for the first few years of their lives. In December 1940, then-prime minister Winston Churchill, asked Home Secretary Herbert Morrison to ensure Lady Mosley was able to see Max—whom she had christened ''Entschlossener'' (determined one)—regularly.〔Mosley, N. (1983), p. 201.〕 Sir Oswald and Lady Mosley were released from detention at HMP Holloway on 16 November 1943, provoking widespread public protests. Max’s elder brother was unhappy at his private school. As a result, both children were tutored at home until the age of 13.〔Jones (2004), pp. 141–143.〕 The family moved to a succession of country houses in England. Mosley's older half-brother Nicholas describes the family, including Sir Oswald’s children from his first marriage, spending the summer of 1945 getting the harvest in and shooting at Crowood Farm.〔Mosley, N. (1983), pp. 278–281.〕 In 1950, the Mosleys bought houses in Ireland, and in Orsay, near Paris. They spent the year moving around Europe, spending the spring in France and the autumn and winter in Ireland, where Mosley was keen on riding and hunting.〔Dorril (2006), p. 598.〕〔Jones (2004), pp. 149–150.〕 His aunt Nancy Mitford, in letters to Evelyn Waugh, recalled Sir Oswald and his family cruising the Mediterranean Sea on the family yacht. On one such trip they visited Spain and were entertained by Sir Oswald's friend, General Franco. At the age of 13 Mosley was sent to Stein an der Traun in Germany for two years, where he learned to speak fluent German.〔 On his return to England he spent a year at Millfield, an independent boarding school in Somerset after which he continued his education in London for two years. He attended Christ Church at Oxford University, graduating with a degree in physics in 1961. During his time there he was Secretary of the Oxford Union where his father spoke on two occasions, once with Jeremy Thorpe on the other side. In 1960 Mosley introduced his father to Robert Skidelsky, one of Mosley's contemporaries at the university, who later wrote Sir Oswald's biography.〔Dorril (2006), pp. 622–623.〕 Rejecting an early ambition to work as a physicist after "establishing that there was no money in it", Mosley went on to study law at Gray's Inn in London and qualified as a barrister in 1964. After a pupillage with Maurice Drake he specialised in patent and trademark law.〔 Northumbria University awarded Mosley an Honorary Doctorate of Civil Law in 2005. From 1961 to 1964 Mosley was a member of the Territorial Army, Parachute Regiment (44th Independent Parachute Brigade Group).〔 Mosley, like many of Formula One's drivers, lives in Monaco. On 9 June 1960 he was married at the Chelsea Register Office to Jean Taylor, the daughter of James Taylor, a policeman from Streatham. In 1970 their first son, Alexander, was born and in 1972 their second son, Patrick.〔 〕 On 5 May 2009, Alexander, a restaurateur, was found dead at his home. He was thirty-nine. At an inquest on 10 June 2009 the Westminster coroner declared that he had died due to heroin intoxication.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=ESPN F1 | Formula 1 news and live F1 coverage )〕 In addition to his full-brother Alexander, Mosley has five older half-siblings. On his father's side they are Vivien Mosley (1921–2002), novelist Nicholas Mosley, 3rd Baron Ravensdale (born 1923), and Michael Mosley (1932–2014).〔(The Peerage )〕 On his mother's side they are merchant banker Jonathan Guinness, 3rd Baron Moyne (born 1930), and Irish preservationist Desmond Guinness (born 1931).〔Jones (2004), pp. 23, 71, 75.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Max Mosley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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