Edwin Hartmann

Edwin Hartmann
nation	Austria
birthday	October 3, 1910
place of birth	Gurtis near Frastanz ,  Austria-Hungary
date of death	March 9, 1996
Place of death	Schruns ,  Austria
Career
discipline	Ski jumping cross-country skiing alpine skiing military patrol
society	SK Frastanz HSV Innsbruck

Edwin Hartmann (born October 3, 1910 in Gurtis near Frastanz , † March 9, 1996 in Schruns ) was an Austrian Nordic and Alpine skier. The soldier achieved numerous victories and podium places in the 1930s and took part in the military patrol demonstration competition at the 1936 Winter Olympics.

biography

Hartmann first came to skiing as a ten-year-old and - as was not uncommon at the time - equally practiced the alpine and Nordic disciplines. After success in the youth field, he became the first Vorarlberg regional champion in 1929 , and in the early 1930s he won the Salzburg championship. At the beginning of the 1930s, Hartmann won several FIS ski jumping competitions : in 1931 he won on the Lankschanze am Bödele , in 1932 in Tschagguns and in 1933 in two competitions in Innsbruck and Lech . Again at the Bödele in 1932 he was Austrian Champion in Nordic Combined .

Hartmann took part in the Nordic World Ski Championships in Innsbruck in 1933 , where he was 19th in Nordic Combined and 27th in 18 km cross-country skiing . He was also used in the alpine disciplines , but only in the "long descent ", which is not part of the World Cup , and which he finished in 36th position. Two weeks after the world championship, Hartmann won the first Tyrolean relay championship together with Haslwanter, Schuler, Kleißl and Balthasar Niederkofler in the team of the Innsbruck Army Sports Association . In addition, he won the Austrian relay championship with the Tyrolean relay in 1933 (together with Möchl, Niederkofler and Hermann Gadner ) and in 1934 (with Haslwanter, Schuler and Kleißl).

From 1934 Hartmann also won several alpine FIS races. That winter he won two downhill runs in Alpbach and the Wildschönau and came second in the downhill run from Pfriemesköpfl at the Innsbruck Winter Sports Week. At the regional championships of East Tyrol and Carinthia in 1934 in Heiligenblut , Hartmann won the championship title with victories in downhill and cross-country skiing and fourth place in jumping. Also in 1934 he won the 18 km cross-country skiing in the Austrian championships; In 1935 he won a downhill race near Bregenz .

A high point in Hartmann's career was taking part in the military patrol run at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . Together with Albert Bach , Franz Hiermann and Eugen Tschurtschentaler , he reached fourth place in this demonstration competition. In the following years Hartmann took part in competitions less and less frequently. In 1938 he achieved two more victories in FIS races in the downhill from Mutters and in the giant slalom from Frastanz , and in 1939 he was again Vorarlberg champion.

Hartmann had four children with his wife Emma, ​​who was Vorarlberg ski champion in 1936. His granddaughter Christa Hartmann became junior world champion in slalom in 1986 and later twice world champion in deep snow skiing. The Hartmann slope from the Tschaggunser Mittagspitze was named after Tschagguns after Edwin Hartmann , on which, among other things, the Montafon gold key races were held in the 1960s .

successes

winter Olympics

• Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936 : 4th military patrol (demonstration competition)

World championships

• Innsbruck 1933 : 19th Nordic combined, 27th 18 km cross-country skiing (not part of the official World Cup program: 36th "long descent" )

Austrian championships

• Austrian Champion in Nordic Combined 1932
• Austrian champion with the Tyrolean cross-country skiing relay in 1933 and 1934

literature

• Austrian Ski Association (Ed.): Austrian Ski Stars from A – Z. Ablinger & Garber, Hall in Tirol 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , p. 139.

References and comments

1. ↑ There are different details about the year of this victory: According to the Austrian Ski Association (publisher): Austrian Ski Stars from A – Z. Ablinger & Garber, Hall in Tirol 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , p. 139, it was 1931, according to Joachim Glaser: Goldsmiths in the Snow. 100 years of the Salzburg State Ski Association. Böhlau, Wien-Köln-Weimar 2011, ISBN 978-3-205-78560-6 , p. 335 it was 1932.
2. ↑ Results of the Alpine World Ski Championships 1933 at www.alpineskiing-worldchampionships.com, accessed on November 10, 2010 (web link no longer available).
3. ^ 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. 51.
4. ^ Austrian Ski Association (ed.): Austrian Ski Stars from A – Z. Ablinger & Garber, Hall in Tirol 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , p. 521.
5. ^ 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. 66.
6. ^ Regional championships of Carinthia and East Tyrol. In:  Sportblatt am Mittag / Sport-Tagblatt. Sports edition of the Neue Wiener Tagblatt , January 22, 1934, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).
7. ↑ The key to downhill world class. In: Austria-Ski-Sport. Journal of the Austrian Ski Association, issue 1/1965, p. 12.