Evald Mikson

Evald Mikson (Icelandic: Eðvald Hinriksson), (July 12 1911, Tartu, Estonia – December 27 1993, Reykjavík, Iceland) was a goalkeeper in the Estonian national football team between 1934 and 1938. Mikson has been accused by the Simon Wiesenthal Center (in particular by Efraim Zuroff) of committing serious war crimes against Jews during the Second World War, when he was working as Deputy Head of Police in Tallinn/Harjumaa. At the end of the war, he escaped to Sweden, where he was considered an undesired person and war criminal after being questioned by a Stockholm court. There was never any question of extradition to the Soviet Union. In 1946 he was transported to the Norwegian border where a boat to Venezuela waited in Halden. However, the boat stranded in Iceland where he remained until his death. An application for a visa to the United States was denied in 1947, after CIG information on his background as war criminal had been distributed via FBI. In 1993, the Icelandic government set up a war crime investigation against Mikson, but he died before coming before court.

Mikson was the father of Jóhannes Eðvaldsson, who played for Celtic F.C. in the seventies, and Atli Eðvaldsson, former player for Borussia Dortmund and player and coach of the Icelandic national football team.