Franz Raithel

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German military patrol team at the 1928 Winter Olympics

Franz Hermann Karl Raithel (* 1905 in Ingolstadt ; † 1935 on Mont Blanc , France ) was a German military alpinist, military patrol runner and officer in the III. Mountain Infantry Battalion in Kempten .

Life

Franz Raithel was the eldest son of the later Royal Bavarian Fireworks Captain August Raithel. Franz Raithel's brother Helmuth was an officer in the Waffen SS and in 1923 in the Hitler-Ludendorff putsch . His youngest brother Heribert served in the mountain troops and was awarded the Knight's Cross , later the youngest artillery colonel in the Wehrmacht .

Raithel was a soldier, initially in the rank of lieutenant , and was promoted to first lieutenant before 1929 . Since 1929 he was a member of the Bayerland section of the German Alpine Club and was appointed Army Mountain Guide on April 1, 1931 .

As a military patrol runner, he took part in the 1928 Winter Olympics. There he was the captain of the German team, which was represented by Raithel, Stefan Kistler , Josef Rehm and Ludwig Mayer . The German team took fifth place, which was considered a success in Germany, as military skiing had a longer tradition in other nations than in Germany. The Swiss authorities wanted to organize the competition as an official part of the Olympic competitions, but the competition was only held as a demonstration competition in 1928, after having been part of the official program four years earlier . Again as the captain of the military patrol runners, Raithel took part in the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo in 1930 and again achieved fifth place in the military patrol run with the German team, which was not part of the world championships.

Raithel died in 1935 of serious injuries after a rock fall on a mountain tour in the Mont-Blanc massif with his brother Heribert .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Helmut Damerau, Wolfgang Hausen: German Soldier Yearbook . Schild Verlag, 1996, p. 355 ( google.de [accessed January 15, 2020]).
  2. ^ A b c d Walter Welsch: History of the Bayerland section of the German Alpine Club eV (PDF) The Bayerland section in the Third Reich. Section Bayerland of the German Alpine Club eV, p. 96 , accessed on January 14, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Erich Kamper : Encyclopedia of the Olympic Winter Games . Union Verlag, 1964, p. 236 ( google.de [accessed January 15, 2020]).
  4. ^ Wolf Reinhardt: Franz Raithel. Biographical information. Olympedia.org OlyMADMen, Bill Mallon , April 5, 2010, accessed January 14, 2020 (registration required).
  5. ↑ Mittheilungen. Of the German and Austrian Alpine Club . The association, 1936, p. 230 ( google.de [accessed January 15, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Raithel, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Raithel, Franz Hermann Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German skier and officer
DATE OF BIRTH 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Ingolstadt
DATE OF DEATH 1935
Place of death Mont Blanc , France