Elsa Rendschmidt
Elsa Rendschmidt 
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| birthday | January 11, 1886 | |||||||||||||||
| date of death | October 9, 1969 | |||||||||||||||
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| discipline | Single run | |||||||||||||||
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Elsa Rendschmidt (born January 11, 1886 - October 9, 1969 ) was a German figure skater who started in a single run .
At the Olympic Games in London in 1908 , Rendschmidt became the first German woman to ever win an Olympic medal. She started for the Berlin ice skating club .
In addition to the Olympic silver medal in 1908 behind Madge Syers and two vice world championship titles in 1908 and 1910 behind Lily Kronberger , Rendschmidt celebrated her greatest success on national territory: in 1911 she won the first German championship in women's figure skating .
From 1909 Elsa Rendschmidt spent the winters in Davos (CH) and St. Moritz (CH) took part in spectacular shows, gave ice skating lessons and was one of the first women to drive Cresta sledges.
In 1911 Elsa Rendschmidt met the German-Jewish entrepreneur Siegfried (Fritz) Sander (Hanover) in St. Moritz (Switzerland / Engadin), whom she married in 1912. From the marriage u. a. later entrepreneur Günter Sander emerged. After the divorce in 1929, Elsa Rendschmidt took her maiden name again.
Fritz Sander was arrested by the Gestapo on April 9, 1941 and died on August 6, 1941 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp. On December 6, 2007, Fritz Sander's first stumbling block was laid in Hanover (Zoo).
After the Second World War, until a few weeks before her death in a nursing home in Celle, Elsa Rendschmidt lived in the family of her son Günter in Volpriehausen near Uslar / Solling.
On February 1, 2006, a previously unnamed footpath in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf was named after Elsa Rendschmidt, which leads from the current home of her old club, the Berlin Ice Skating Club, to the Pichelsberg S-Bahn station .
Results
| Competition / year | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 | 1909 | 1910 | 1911 |
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| winter Olympics | 2. | |||||
| World Championship | 4th | 4th | 2. | 2. | ||
| German championships | 1. |
Web links
- Elsa Rendschmidt in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Elsa-Rendschmidt-Weg. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
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| SURNAME | Rendschmidt, Elsa |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German figure skater |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 11, 1886 |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 9, 1969 |