Fritz Kachler

Fritz Kachler
Full name	Friedrich Kachler
nation	Austria
birthday	January 1888
place of birth	Vienna
date of death	1973
Place of death	Vienna
Career
discipline	Single run
Medal table
World Cup medals 3 × 3 × 1 × EM medals 2 × 1 × 0 ×
World figure skating championships bronze Berlin 1911 Men's gold Manchester 1912 Men's gold Vienna 1913 Men's silver Helsinki 1914 Men's silver Stockholm 1922 Men's gold Vienna 1923 Men's silver Vienna 1925 Men's  European figure skating championships gold Vienna 1914 Men's silver Davos 1922 Men's gold Davos 1924 Men's

Friedrich "Fritz" Kachler (* January 1888 in Vienna ; † 1973 there ) was an Austrian figure skater who started in a single run . He was the world champion of 1912 , 1913 and 1923 and the European champion of 1914 and 1924 .

Life

He achieved his first podium placement at the World Figure Skating Championships in Berlin in 1911 , where he was third behind Ulrich Salchow and Werner Rittberger . A year later in Manchester he won his first world title, which he defended in Vienna in 1913 . In 1914, at the last world figure skating championship before the First World War, he was defeated by the Swede Gösta Sandahl and became vice world champion. In the same year, however, he won his first European championship title in front of a home crowd in Vienna.

After a seven-year hiatus because of the First World War , he came back in 1922 at the age of 34 and was runner-up in Stockholm behind Gillis Grafström . A year later he even became world champion again in Vienna , ahead of his compatriot Willy Böckl , whom he had relegated to second place in 1913. In 1924, Kachler won his last international title with the European championship title in Davos . He made his last appearance at the World Figure Skating Championships in Vienna in 1925 , where he became vice world champion. Willy Böckl, who had previously beaten him at the European Championship in 1922, now triumphed over him for the first time at a World Championship.

Kachler believed that sport and nationalism should not be mixed and therefore did not compete in the Olympics .

In addition to his athletic career as a figure skater and judge, he made a career as a mechanical engineer and became head of the Austrian Railway for Vienna / Lower Austria in the 1950s. He died in 1973 and was buried in the Eisenstadt family grave at the Döblinger Friedhof in Vienna, next to his wife Margarethe Eisenstädter.

Results

Competition / year	1909	1910	1911	1912	1913	1914	1922	1923	1924	1925
World championships			3.	1.	1.	2.	2.	1.		2.
European championships						1.	2.		1.
Austrian championships	2.	1.	1.	1.

Awards (excerpt)

• 1965: Silver medal for services to the Republic of Austria

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of winners of the Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria . Retrieved December 9, 2015.