Erik from Holst
Erik Johannes Peter Ernst von Holst (born August 30, 1894 in Reval ; † May 31, 1962 in Ahrensbök ) was a Baltic German regatta sailor and designer.
Life
Erik von Holst learned to sail off the coast of Estonia before the First World War. In 1930 he was involved in the construction of the shark boat by Gunnar L. Stenbäck , which is very popular in Finland and Estonia . As a regatta sailor, at the age of more than 40, von Holst competed as a single-handed sailor in the newly created O-dinghy for Estonia at the sailing competitions of the 1936 Summer Olympics off Kiel on the Kiel Fjord . He took 17th place out of 25 participants.
After the resettlement in 1939, he organized the sailors expelled from the Baltic States in Germany in 1940 and was a commodore of the Baltic Sailing Association until 1945 as a merger of five sailing clubs.
However, his passion was ice sailing . He designed his first ice yacht before the First World War and in 1924 wrote the standard work published in 1925 by the sailing specialist Klasing, which was reissued in 1984. He is the designer of the 1932 monotype XV Eisyacht. The 12 m² ice yacht, designed by Holst in 1937, was designed by the EEU, the European Ice Sailing Union, which was founded by Erik von Holst in 1928, as a "people's ice sailor". Holst himself won several ice sailing regattas with his constructions.
Fonts
- The ice yacht , Klasing, Berlin 1925
literature
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Erik von Holst. In: BBLD - Baltic biografisches Lexikon digital
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ according to BBLD, alternatively also called Vaivara .
- ↑ alternatively, Eutin is also named as the place of death .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Holst, Erik von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Holst, Erik Johannes Peter Ernst von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Estonian regatta sailor and designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 30, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reval |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 31, 1962 |
| Place of death | Ahrensbök |