Engelbert Haider

Career
Engelbert Haider

nation	Austria Austria German Empire German Reich NS
birthday	April 20, 1922
place of birth	Reith near Seefeld
date of death	November 12, 1999
Place of death	Bad Wiessee, Germany
discipline	Downhill , slalom , giant slalom , combination
society	SC Seefeld SC Salzburg (from 1952)
End of career	1953

Engelbert "Engele" Haider (born April 20, 1922 in Reith bei Seefeld , † November 12, 1999 in Bad Wiessee , Bavaria ) was an Austrian and German ski racer . He celebrated numerous victories in international races in the 1940s and early 1950s, became German and Austrian champions, and took part in the 1948 Winter Olympics and the 1950 World Cup. After the end of his active career, he was the coach of the German women's national team from the mid-1950s.

biography

Haider began skiing in the late 1920s, and Anton Seelos became his most important teacher in the mid-1930s . He began an apprenticeship as a mechanic and developed into one of the best young racers of the time. After the annexation of Austria scored Haider in April 1939 for the first time more attention than he in Seefeld the unplugged from Seelos giant slalom of the Ski Club Seefeld, of which he was won. In February 1940 Haider was two-time German youth champion with victories in downhill and slalom of the 5th Winter Fighting Games of the Hitler Youth in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . At the German War Ski Championships held two weeks later in St. Anton am Arlberg in 1940 , he finished second in the slalom with the fastest time in the second run, just behind Josef Jennewein . In March 1940 he won the slalom of the Tyrolean Championships in Innsbruck.

The then 18-year-old was not yet eligible to compete in the 1941 World Cup in Cortina d'Ampezzo , which was later canceled . But it was used as a forerunner in the first slalom run and drove a time that none of the competitors could undercut. In the same winter Haider won a combination in the High Tatras and in the giant slalom on the Seegrube , which he also won in 1942. Also in 1942 he won a slalom in St. Anton, followed by a victory in the Oslo slalom in 1943. Due to the Second World War , skiing events in Europe were already severely restricted at that time. In March 1944, after a two-year break, there were German championships again, which were held in St. Anton, Haider became German champion in slalom and combined. In the downhill he came in second behind Hans Nogler . During the last months of the war Haider was stationed as a soldier in Norway .

After the end of the Second World War, Haider was only able to take part in competitions again in 1946/1947. This winter he won the slalom in Seefeld and the Madloch downhill in Lech ; at the Hahnenkamm races in Kitzbühel he came second three times. In the 1947/1948 season, Haider won the descent in Sölden , a slalom in Lech and the combination for the Golden Ring in Seefeld. He also achieved numerous podium places, including in slalom and combination of the Arlberg-Kandahar races in Chamonix . At the season highlight, the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz , he was only in the defeated field. He was 13th in the combination, 14th in the downhill and 17th in the slalom.

Haider had to pause most of the 1948/1949 season due to injury, and it was only towards the end of winter that he again reached a podium in the Auron slalom . In 1950 he won the downhill run of the Hannes Schneider Cup in St. Anton, making him second in the combination. At the next major event, the 1950 World Cup in Aspen , he was again without a top result: Haider was only 21st in the downhill and 24th in both slalom and giant slalom. In 1951 and 1952 Haider won the downhill run in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, there he also achieved second place in the combination in 1951 and third place in the slalom in 1952. In addition, he achieved podium places in slalom and combination of the Hahnenkamm races in 1951 and in the second special downhill run in Kitzbühel as well as in giant slalom and slalom from Seefeld. In Windischgarsten he was Austrian downhill champion in 1951 . Haider was not at the start at the Olympic Winter Games in Oslo in 1952 .
After the games, the almost 30-year-old, who moved from the Seefeld Ski Club to the Salzburg Ski Club in 1952, celebrated his last victories in downhill, slalom and combined races at Rottach-Egern before retiring from active ski racing at the end of winter 1953.

In the mid-1950s, Haider became the coach of the German women's national team, with whom he celebrated a number of successes - above all with the giant slalom Olympic victory in 1956 by Ossi Reichert . After that he worked for a long time as track manager or course setter in various races. He also worked for the ski manufacturer Head , after having been a representative of his then outfitter Kneissl during his active time . From the 1950s until his death, Haider lived in Bad Wiessee, Bavaria .

successes

winter Olympics

St. Moritz 1948 : 13th combination, 14th descent, 17th slalom

(these Olympic Games also counted as World Championships)

World championships

Aspen 1950 : 21st downhill, 24th slalom, 24th giant slalom

Victories in FIS races

Slalom in Cortina d'Ampezzo 1941
Combination in the High Tatras in 1941
Giant slalom in the Seegrube in 1941 and 1942
Slalom in St. Anton 1942
Slalom in Oslo 1943
Slalom around the Golden Ring in Seefeld in 1947
Madloch descent in Lech 1947
Departure from the Sonnblick in 1947
Slalom in Lech 1948
Departure from Sölden in 1948
Combination around the Golden Ring in Seefeld in 1948
Departure of the Hannes Schneider Cup in St. Anton 1950
Departure from Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1951 and 1952
Downhill, slalom and combination in Rottach-Egern 1952

More Achievements

German champion in slalom and combination in 1944
Austrian champion in the downhill 1951

Remarks

↑ Haider belonged to the Schutzstaffel -Sportgruppe Salzburg and was probably therefore closed in the first post-war winter, compare: Anneliese Gidl, Karl Graf: Skisport in Innsbruck. From the beginning to the 21st century. Haymon, Innsbruck-Wien 2010, ISBN 978-3-85218-591-0 , pp. 89-90.
↑ There are various details about the reason for his absence from the 1952 Olympic Winter Games: According to the Austrian Ski Association (publisher): Austrian Skistars from A – Z. Ablinger & Garber, Hall in Tirol 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , p. 134, he lost his starting place in a qualifying race in Bad Gastein, according to Hermann Nussbaumer: victory on white slopes. Balance of alpine skiing. 9th expanded edition, Trauner Verlag, Linz 1977, ISBN 3-85320-176-8 , p. 121, however, serious accusations were made against Haider, who was stationed in Norway during the Second World War, in the Norwegian press (such attacks have already been made the 1948 Winter Games, whereupon an investigation was initiated that turned out negative). Due to the nervous strain, Haider decided not to start in Oslo after consulting the head coach. Also in Anneliese Gidl, Karl Graf: Skisport in Innsbruck. From the beginning to the 21st century. Haymon, Innsbruck-Wien 2010, ISBN 978-3-85218-591-0 , p. 90 it can be read that "the Norwegians even prevented his start at the Olympic Games in Oslo in 1952".

literature

Austrian Ski Association (Ed.): Austrian Ski Stars from A – Z. Ablinger & Garber, Hall in Tirol 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , pp. 134-135.

Web links

Engelbert Haider in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

^ Anneliese Gidl, Karl Graf: Skisport in Innsbruck. From the beginning to the 21st century. Haymon, Innsbruck-Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85218-591-0 , pp. 80-81.
↑ ^a ^b Gerd Falkner , German Ski Association (Ed.): 100 Years of the German Ski Association. Chronicle of German skiing from the beginning to the present. Volume 1, German Ski Association, Planegg 2005, ISBN 3-938963-01-8 , p. 174.
^ ^A ^b Hermann Nußbaumer: Victory on white slopes. Balance of alpine skiing. 9th expanded edition, Trauner Verlag, Linz 1977, ISBN 3-85320-176-8 , p. 94.
^ 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. 82.
↑ Albert Pfeifer wins the gate run. In: Tages-Post , February 5, 1941, p. 5 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / tpt
↑ Gerd Falkner, German Ski Association (Ed.): 100 Years of the German Ski Association. Chronicle of German skiing from the beginning to the present. Volume 1, German Ski Association, Planegg 2005, ISBN 3-938963-01-8 , p. 186.
^ 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. 88.
^ «In a few lines», 1st article . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 16, 1951, p. 16 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
^ "The downhill route in Norefjell", subtitle: "Birger Ruud on the Haider case" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 22, 1951, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
↑ Joachim Glaser: Goldsmiths in the snow. 100 years of the Salzburg State Ski Association. Böhlau, Vienna-Cologne-Weimar 2011, ISBN 978-3-205-78560-6 , p. 228.

personal data
SURNAME	Haider, Engelbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Haider, Engele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian and German ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH	April 20, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH	Reith near Seefeld , Austria
DATE OF DEATH	November 12, 1999
Place of death	Bad Wiessee , Germany

[8] Haider belonged to the Schutzstaffel -Sportgruppe Salzburg and was probably therefore closed in the first post-war winter, compare: Anneliese Gidl, Karl Graf: Skisport in Innsbruck. From the beginning to the 21st century. Haymon, Innsbruck-Wien 2010, ISBN 978-3-85218-591-0 , pp. 89-90.

[9] There are various details about the reason for his absence from the 1952 Olympic Winter Games: According to the Austrian Ski Association (publisher): Austrian Skistars from A – Z. Ablinger & Garber, Hall in Tirol 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , p. 134, he lost his starting place in a qualifying race in Bad Gastein, according to Hermann Nussbaumer: victory on white slopes. Balance of alpine skiing. 9th expanded edition, Trauner Verlag, Linz 1977, ISBN 3-85320-176-8 , p. 121, however, serious accusations were made against Haider, who was stationed in Norway during the Second World War, in the Norwegian press (such attacks have already been made the 1948 Winter Games, whereupon an investigation was initiated that turned out negative). Due to the nervous strain, Haider decided not to start in Oslo after consulting the head coach. Also in Anneliese Gidl, Karl Graf: Skisport in Innsbruck. From the beginning to the 21st century. Haymon, Innsbruck-Wien 2010, ISBN 978-3-85218-591-0 , p. 90 it can be read that "the Norwegians even prevented his start at the Olympic Games in Oslo in 1952".

[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 , pp. 80-81.

[100DSV1_174-2] Gerd Falkner , German Ski Association (Ed.): 100 Years of the German Ski Association. Chronicle of German skiing from the beginning to the present. Volume 1, German Ski Association, Planegg 2005, ISBN 3-938963-01-8 , p. 174.

[Nußbaumer_94-3] A ^b Hermann Nußbaumer: Victory on white slopes. Balance of alpine skiing. 9th expanded edition, Trauner Verlag, Linz 1977, ISBN 3-85320-176-8 , p. 94.

[4] 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. 82.

[5] Albert Pfeifer wins the gate run. In: Tages-Post , February 5, 1941, p. 5 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / tpt

[6] Gerd Falkner, German Ski Association (Ed.): 100 Years of the German Ski Association. Chronicle of German skiing from the beginning to the present. Volume 1, German Ski Association, Planegg 2005, ISBN 3-938963-01-8 , p. 186.

[7] 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. 88.

[10] «In a few lines», 1st article . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 16, 1951, p. 16 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).

[11] "The downhill route in Norefjell", subtitle: "Birger Ruud on the Haider case" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 22, 1951, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).

[12] Joachim Glaser: Goldsmiths in the snow. 100 years of the Salzburg State Ski Association. Böhlau, Vienna-Cologne-Weimar 2011, ISBN 978-3-205-78560-6 , p. 228.