Emmerich Rath

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Emmerich Rath

Emmerich Rath ( Czech Emerich Rath ; born November 5, 1883 in Prague , † December 21, 1962 in Broumov ) was a German-Bohemian all-round athlete. He was active in athletics , Nordic combined , bobsleigh , canoeing , rowing , football , cross-country skiing , mountaineering , rugby , boxing , hockey and ice hockey .

Career

Rath came from a German-Bohemian family and grew up in Braunau (Broumov) from the age of four. At the age of ten he learned to ski self-taught and was one of the pioneers of skiing in Bohemia. In 1898 he began an apprenticeship as a clerk at the renowned Prague hardware store VJ Rott . Rath had been eating a vegetarian diet since he was 16 .

Rath started his football career at DFC Prague . Between 1904 and 1909 he was active as a military runner. He won eleven runs over 50 kilometers, including 1905 and between 1907 and 1909 the 50 kilometer run in Berlin . In 1909, Rath set a new record time of 6:13 h in the competitions carried out with 30 kilograms of storm luggage. As early as 1906 he published his book The Baggage March over 50 km and Why I Won , which was about his victory in 1905. At the Summer Olympics in London in 1908 , he started in the marathon and over 10 km of walking. In the marathon he reached 25th place and set the first Austrian national record with 3:50:31 h, while walking he took eighth place. At the Summer Olympics in Stockholm in 1912 , he reached 33rd place in the marathon. In the cross-country individual, he did not reach the goal. In 1912 Rath became German heavyweight boxing champion after a draw in a fight with the Berlin champion.

On June 24, 1912, Rath married Franziska Kraus in Berlin. In 1914 the couple moved from Berlin to Prague, where he opened a sporting goods store. In the same year he won a European field hockey championship with the Bohemian team, in which, however, only the Bohemian, German and Belgian selection and a Berlin club took part. After the end of the First World War , Rath initially worked as a ski instructor in the Italian Alps . He worked as a sports journalist at the Olympic Games in 1920 and 1924 . From 1923 Rath worked again at VJ Rott after the company had expanded its range to include sporting goods. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1926 , he started for Czechoslovakia in cross-country skiing and Nordic combined. He had to give up in cross-country skiing over 30 km. In the individual combination he reached the 24th place. In 1929 Rath opened his own shop for sporting goods and tramping equipment in the passage between the fruit market and Na příkopě Street . During the German occupation , Rath hid the Prague Jew Boris Effenberg and later also supported him when he left for Sweden.

After Komunistická strana Československa came to power in 1948, Rath lost his sporting goods business. Because of the western lifestyle and Americanism, the passionate supporter of “tramping”, a movement committed to American and natural romanticism, known as the Gray Wolf , was sentenced to one year in prison. Then he worked as a street sweeper and bricklayer. After an illness, Rath lived briefly with his cousin in Broumov from 1960 and then on the street. Then he was sent to a retirement home in Stárkov .

The Rathova Pasáž ( "Rath-Passage"), by the Na Příkopě , going on, one of the main shopping streets of Prague is named after him.

Personal best

successes

  • Cross-country skiing championship of the Kingdom of Bohemia 1907: 5 km (1st place), 10 km (2nd place), 50 km (2nd place)

Works

  • The baggage march over 50 km and why I won , 1906
  • Heinrich Otto: Walking. Training, technique and tactics of fast, baggage and continuous walking with contributions by Hermann Müller and Emmerich Rath, reworked by Hermann Müller. Leipzig and Zurich: Grethlein 1922.

literature

  • Hermann Hansen, Knut Sveen: VM på ski '97. Alt om ski-VM 1925-1997. Adresseavisens Forlag, Trondheim 1996. ISBN 82-7164-044-5

Web links

Commons : Emmerich Rath  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ AC Unity - The History of Boxing - Boxing in Hamburg . www.ac-einigkeit.de. Archived from the original on October 30, 2007. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 5, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ac-einigkeit.de
  2. ↑ Officiell webbplats for jubileumsmarathon for 1912 års maraton in Stockholm. (No longer available online.) Www.jubileemarathon.se, archived from the original on May 18, 2015 ; Retrieved December 23, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jubileemarathon.se


personal data
SURNAME Rath, Emmerich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rath, Emerich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech all-round athlete
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1962
Place of death Broumov , Czechoslovakia