Friedl Wolfgang

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Gottfried "Friedl" Wolfgang (born October 30, 1908 in Lilienfeld ; † October 14, 1984 in Waidhofen an der Ybbs ) was an Austrian ski racer and general secretary for the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck .

Life

Friedl Wolfgang came into contact with alpine skiing at an early age and was taught by Mathias Zdarsky and his student Willi Egger and later by Guzzi Lantschner . He achieved his first victories at middle school championships; He celebrated his first major success in 1931 at the races on the Schneeberg . From an Austrian point of view, this most important race of the year at the time was held with a downhill run and a slalom run on March 21 and 22, 1931 and served on the one hand to advertise skiing and on the other hand to convince the authorities of the importance of the still young racing sport. Friedl Wolfgang took second place behind Friedl Däuber in the combined ranking of both races and with this success secured himself public attention for the first time in an extremely strong competition from participants from Switzerland , Yugoslavia and Great Britain . Inge Lantschner remained successful in the women’s race .

At the next year's Schneeberg race in 1932, Wolfgang achieved third place in the combination . The winner of this race, in which only the thirty best skiers of the downhill were allowed to compete in the slalom, was Siegfried Engl from Kitzbühel . Former figure skater Herma Szabó remained successful in the women's category . In 1933 the Lower Austrian took good placings at the academic championships and was then allowed to compete at the home world championships in Innsbruck that same year, where he was able to become fourth-best Austrian in combination (winner Anton Seelos ).

Two years later he won the Austrian championship in alpine combination in Zell am See with victories in downhill and slalom and achieved sixth place, again in alpine combination, at the World Cup in Mürren in 1935, his best World Championship placement. In 1937 he again reached the top ranks at the Academic World Championships.

After his active career, the civil educator working as a middle school teacher started a career as a trainer and looked after the Austrian, Italian and Belgian women's national teams , among others . After the Second World War he became a home and course director in St. Christoph and worked from 1945 to 1949 as a chief ski instructor and mountain guide for the British troops in occupied Austria. In 1949 he took the position of winter sports advisor to the spa administration in Bad Gastein and was also the course manager for the 1958 World Cup on the Graukogel. He then became General Secretary of the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck and Head of the Sports Department at the Office of the Tyrolean Provincial Government.

In 1987, Hofrat Professor Mag. Phil. Gottfried Wolfgang published his book "Mathias Zdarsky - The Man and His Work" at the publishing house of the District Home Museum Lilienfeld, which deals with the history of alpine skiing from its beginnings to the developments in the 1980s.

successes

  • 6th place in the combination at the Alpine World Ski Championships in Mürren in 1935
  • Austrian champion in alpine combination in Zell am See 1935
  • 2nd place in the alpine combination at the 1931 snow mountain race
  • 3rd place in the alpine combination at the 1932 snow mountain race

Awards (excerpt)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Column 5, middle: "Friedl Wolfgang dead" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna October 16, 1984, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
personal data
SURNAME Wolfgang, Friedl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolfgang, Gottfried (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Lily field
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1984
Place of death Waidhofen an der Ybbs