Feodora to Solms

Feodora to Solms
nation	Germany
birthday	April 5, 1920
place of birth	Baruth / Mark , Germany
size	176 cm
Weight	62 kg
date of death	March 23, 2006
Place of death	Vienna, Austria
Career
society	MSV Wünsdorf 1910 e. V.
Medal table
European championships 0 × 0 × 1 × German championships 1 × 4 × 0 ×
European championships bronze Vienna 1938 high jump  German championships silver Wroclaw 1938 high jump gold Berlin 1939 high jump silver Berlin 1940 high jump silver Berlin 1941 high jump silver Berlin 1942 high jump
last change: November 13, 2018

Feodora Countess zu Solms-Baruth , later widowed Schenk , married Princess of Auersperg (* 5. April 1920 in Baruth / Mark ; † 23. March 2006 in Vienna ) was a German athlete and Olympian (1952), which at the European Championships in 1938 , the Won bronze medal in high jump (1.64 m).

Life

She was the second of five children of Friedrich zu Solms-Baruth (1886-1951) and the Adelheid Princess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1889-1964).

She took first place at the German Championships in the women's high jump in 1939, and second place in each of the years 1938, 1940, 1941 and 1942.

Feodora zu Solms started for the sports club MSV Wünsdorf . In her active time, she was 1.76 m tall and 62 kg.

In 1942 she married Gert Schenk (1910–1957). Their son Sebastian was born in 1946 and their son Christian in 1953 . Under the name Feodora Schenk, she was sixth in the high jump at the 1952 Olympic Games ( starting for Austria ).
After the death of her first husband, she married Karl Adolf Prinz von Auersperg (1915-2006) in 1961 , who had also been widowed in 1959 and had four children, and took the name Princess von Auersperg . From him she had the daughter Caroline, born in 1962 (now married Preiser).
She died at the age of 85 on March 23, 2006 in Vienna .

Web links

• Feodora zu Solms in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ MSV Wünsdorf 1910 e. V.