Franz Aschenwald

Franz Aschenwald
nation	Austria German Empire
birthday	January 11, 1913
place of birth	Mayrhofen ,  Austria-Hungary
date of death	January 31, 1945
Place of death	Vienna ,  German Empire
Career
society	Innsbrucker SV

Franz Aschenwald (born January 11, 1913 in Mayrhofen , † January 31, 1945 in Vienna ) was an Austrian skier. He was mainly active as a ski jumper , but also took part in cross-country skiing and Nordic combined , as well as in competitions in alpine skiing .

Career

At the end of the 1920s, Aschenwald began skiing in his homeland in the Zillertal in Tyrol and joined the Innsbruck Skier Association. He soon turned his main focus on ski jumping and made contact with the top Austrian ranks in the early 1930s. In 1933 he took part in a world championship for the first time in Innsbruck , where he finished 19th in jumping. Two years later he reached tenth place as the best Austrian at the 1935 World Cup in the High Tatras . At these world championships he also took part in cross-country skiing and the Nordic combined, but only achieved lower places. He also had some good results in Alpine FIS races in the mid-1930s. He finished fifth in a slalom in Kitzbühel in 1935 and fourth in a downhill race on the Großglockner in 1936 , but never made it to major events in alpine skiing.

At the Olympic Winter Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1936 , Aschenwald reached 36th place when jumping from the normal hill. A month later he came in the top field at the international FIS jumping in Planica with a width of 96 meters. The winner Josef Bradl set a new world record with 101 meters. In 1937 Aschenwald was 21st on the normal hill at the World Championships in Chamonix . At the international jumping competitions in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the same year he achieved a second, a third and a fifth place. In Kitzbühel in 1938 he became the Tyrolean champion for the second time since 1936 in the three-way combination of jumping, cross-country and downhill skiing. After the annexation of Austria , Aschenwald started for the German Reich in March 1938. At the World Championships in Zakopane in 1939 , he had a serious fall in the first round and had to be taken to hospital unconscious.

In addition to his active career, Aschenwald began working as a ski jumping trainer in 1936, first in Austria and later abroad, where he was valued for his specialist knowledge. His wife gave birth to a son in 1940. The outbreak of World War II ended Aschenwald's career as a ski jumper and trainer. There was no planned continuation after the end of the war, Aschenwald died as a soldier on January 31, 1945 in Vienna.

Sporting successes

winter Olympics

• Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936 : 36th jump run

World championships

• Innsbruck 1933 : 19th ski jump
• Vysoké Tatry 1935 : 10th jump run
• Chamonix 1937 : 21st ski jump

literature

• Austrian Ski (ed.): Austrian ski stars of A-Z . Ablinger & Garber, Hall in Tirol 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , p. 15

Web links

• Franz Aschenwald in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )