Felix Rinner

Felix Rinner (born January 6, 1911 in Vienna , † April 2, 1976 ) was an Austrian sprinter and multiple participant in the Olympic Games .

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Felix Rinner was born on January 6, 1911 in Vienna and belonged to the clubs Wiener AC and Weiß-Rot-Weiß during his athletics career . After attending the Radetzky School , where he was a schoolmate of Bruno Kreisky , he went to another school on Am Schüttel, which he attended together with the future actor Hans Holt . He then studied medicine at the University of Vienna .

Over 400 m , he was eliminated from the quarter-finals at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles and won silver at the 1935 International University Games . At the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936 he reached the semi-finals over 200 m.

Four times he was Austrian champion over 200 m (1930, 1931, 1935, 1936), three times over 400 m (1930-1932) and once over 100 m (1935). In 1935 he set national records over 200 m and 400 m with 21.8 s and 48.5 s respectively.

As a supporter of National Socialism , he became Ernst Kaltenbrunner's adjutant in the SS . When Austria was annexed , as Friedrich Rainer reported in a newspaper article on March 12, 1938, on the evening of March 11, he was in charge of a command of 40 SS men that occupied the Federal Chancellery . Then he was appointed "Representative for competitive sports" in the Ostmark .

During the Second World War he was a surgeon with the rank of Sturmbannführer of the 5th SS Panzer Division "Wiking" . During this time he was known for his exceptional speed and dexterity in emergency operations. After the war ended, he was interned at Camp Marcus W. Orr , where he was appointed camp manager after unrest among the inmates.

Rinner later worked in the pharmaceutical industry. He also looked after Heinrich Harrer on his first ascent of the Eiger north face in 1938 .

From 1959 to 1969 he was federal chairman of the right-wing extremist Kameradschaft IV .

Web links

• Felix Rinner in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes & individual references

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Obituary in the bulletin of the Austrian Athletics Association. No. 6/7, July 20, 1976, p. 19 ( PDF )
2. ^ Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal. Volume XXXIV. Nuremberg, 1949, pp. 1–3 ( PDF )
3. ^ Johannes Hochsteger: Biographical study of Austrian sports idols from 1933-1945. Thesis. Vienna 2014, p. 151 ( PDF )
4. ↑ ^{a b} Patrick Vergörer: Limits of liberal democracy using the example of Kameradschaft IV and the newspaper "Die Kameradschaft". Dissertation. Innsbruck 1995, p. 97 ( PDF )