Anneliese Schuh-Proxauf

Anneliese Schuh-Proxauf
nation	Austria German Empire
birthday	March 10, 1922
place of birth	innsbruck
Career
discipline	Slalom , giant slalom , downhill , combination
society	SC Seegrube, Kitzbühel Skiclub, SC Seefeld
status	resigned
End of career	1953

Anneliese Schuh-Proxauf , b. Proxauf , (born March 10, 1922 in Innsbruck ) is a former Austrian ski racer . She celebrated numerous victories in international races, participated once in the Olympic Games and three times in World Championships and was four times Austrian champion . After her skiing career, she achieved further successes in tennis and gliding . Together with her husband, she founded an airline company in 1958.

biography

Like her sister Rosemarie , who is one year older than her, Anneliese Proxauf came to skiing through her parents who are enthusiastic about skiing. After the opening of the Nordkettenbahn, the siblings visited the ski school on the Seegrube , the head of which their first trainer became. They completed their first race in 1933 at the Alpine Club's youth ski day. Anneliese Proxauf achieved her first successes in the youth field in the second half of the 1930s, but was thrown back several times in her youth due to injuries. Starting for the German Reich after the annexation of Austria , the then 18-year-old, who graduated from high school in 1940 and began studying economics at the University of Innsbruck , celebrated her first major successes at the 1941 World Cup in Cortina d'Ampezzo when she won three bronze medals in the Downhill, slalom and combined. However, these medals were declared invalid by the International Ski Federation at its 16th Congress, which took place from August 27th to 31st, 1946 in the Pyrenees town of Pau , as many nations could or were not allowed to participate in the World Cup due to political circumstances.

When ski competitions were held again after the end of the Second World War , Anneliese Schuh-Proxauf, as she was called after her marriage to Max Schuh, was one of the top Austrian athletes. In the winter of 1946 she won downhill, slalom and combination at the Golden Ring and the Silver Ball in Seefeld and at the Hahnenkamm races in Kitzbühel . She also won the combination of the Austrian country meeting in Seefeld in 1946. After she had not taken part in any competitions in the winter of 1947 due to injury, she won the 1948 downhill run of the Arlberg-Kandahar race in Chamonix ; in downhill, slalom and combination from Sölden ; in slalom and combination from St. Anton as well as in slalom, giant slalom and combination from Seefeld. She also won the slalom and the combination at the Austrian Championships in Bad Hofgastein in 1948 and came second in the downhill. At the Olympic Winter Games in 1948 , however, she could not show these achievements. Impaired by a serious injury (skull base tear), she was sixth in the slalom, seventh in the combination and 17th in the downhill, well behind the medal ranks.

In the winter of 1949, major successes were largely absent, as she concentrated primarily on her doctorate . She only won one combination classification in Turkey and was second in both downhill and combined in Grindelwald . At the Austrian Championships in Villach in 1949 , she took first place in slalom with Resi Hammerer and two second places behind Hammerer in downhill and combined. In the winter of 1950 Schuh-Proxauf won on the Marmolada . She achieved further podium positions with three second places in slalom, downhill and combined from St. Anton. Following a cold she suffered during the World Cup 1950 in Aspen under a Stirnhöhlenempyem . Nevertheless, she achieved fourth place in the slalom and in the downhill as well as fifth in the giant slalom, which means she missed the medal ranks twice by just a few tenths of a second.

On January 13, 1951, Schuh-Proxauf again celebrated two important victories in slalom and in the combination of the SDS races in Grindelwald (in the downhill run on January 12, she was third). However, there had been problems with the timekeeping in the first slalom run, should have repeated it, which she refused and she then did not take part in the giant slalom on January 14th. She achieved second places in the slaloms in Seefeld and Oslo . In the next winter, apart from two third places in downhill and giant slalom as well as winning the combination at the Austrian championships , she barely had any top placings. It was not used at the 1952 Winter Olympics , because after the giant slalom, the line-up for the downhill was changed and it was not taken into account, whereupon it left Oslo prematurely.
After the winter of 1953, in which she had achieved three podium places in the slalom and giant slalom in Vall de Núria as well as in the giant slalom of the Austrian championships in Igls , Anneliese Schuh-Proxauf ended her international career in ski racing at the age of 31, but kicked three Years later at the Austrian Championships in 1956 again in appearance.
She continued to be active in tennis . (It is mentioned in a ranking in 1951, but because of too little play there for her no vote.) It was multiple Tyrolean Champion and Austrian Vice-Champion and won in 1955 a tournament in Nice , which she in the same year at the Championships Wimbledon could start .

After the skiing career

Shoe Proxauf worked in his parents' textile company , acquired in 1956, the powered flight - private pilot license and later the glider pilot's license . Together with her husband Max Schuh , who died in 2008 , she founded the airline company Aircraft Innsbruck in 1958 , which in 1977 was the first private airline to receive line authorization. The most important flight connection at that time was created between Innsbruck and Vienna . In 1978 they sold their airline to Gernot Langes and Christian Schwemberger-Swarovski. This resulted in the Tyrolean airline. In 1960 Schuh-Proxauf set an Austrian record in gliding with an absolute height of 7170 meters. She also hit an Austrian record with 6400 meters of relative altitude gain and the Austrian record for distance of 326 kilometers with a return flight in 6 hours and 15 minutes. She was the first woman in Austria to achieve “Gold C with two diamonds”.

In November 2017, at the age of 95, Schuh-Proxauf was awarded the Cross of Merit of the State of Tyrol for her services to sport, business and tourism.

literature

• Austrian Ski Association (Ed.): Austrian Ski Stars from A – Z. Ablinger & Garber, Hall in Tirol 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , pp. 399-400.
• Anneliese Gidl, Karl Graf: Skiing in Innsbruck. From the beginning to the 21st century. Haymon, Innsbruck / Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85218-591-0 , pp. 84–86.

Web links

• Anneliese Schuh-Proxauf in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Anneliese Schuh-Proxauf in the database of the International Ski Association (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Anneliese Gidl, Karl Graf: Skisport in Innsbruck. From the beginning to the 21st century. Haymon, Innsbruck / Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85218-591-0 , p. 92.
2. ^ Claus Deutelmoser: Alpine skiing. Copress, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-7679-0105-6 , p. 92
3. ^ "Austria's female runners without a win" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 13, 1951, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
4. ^ "Arlbergers win on the Lauberhorn"; Subtitle: “An Austrian success in Grindelwald too” . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 14, 1951, p. 14 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
5. ^ "Schneider also won the combination", subtitle: "The time measurement failed" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 16, 1951, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
6. ^ "Austria's women's team changed" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 16, 1952, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
7. ↑ "The Tennis Ranking 1951", column 3 . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 29, 1951, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
8. ↑ Mourning for aviation pioneer Dr. Max shoe. (PDF, 7.1 MB, p. 6) (No longer available online.) In: Destination - Magazine Innsbruck Airport, issue 2/2008. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; Retrieved January 5, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ From ski ace to glider pilot record holder. In: World and Sport. Klagenfurt from May 31, 1966, page 4, POS. bottom right.
10. ↑ LH Platter: "Unique achievements under the sign of sport". State of Tyrol, November 6, 2020, accessed on July 28, 2020 .