Evald Mikson

Evald Mikson (in Icelandic Eðvald Hinriksson), (July 12 [O.S. June 29] 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 tried to escape via Sweden to the United States but ended up in Iceland. He was convicted of war crimes in 1946 by a court in Stockholm, but was not extradited to the Soviet Union since he risked a death penalty. 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 in Celtic F.C. in the seventies, and Atli Eðvaldsson, formerly player in Borussia Dortmund and player and coach of the Icelandic national football team.