Gilbert Fuchs

Gilbert Fuchs
Full name	Anton Gilbert Fuchs
nation	German Empire
birthday	1871
place of birth	Graz, Austria
date of death	1952
Career
discipline	Single run
society	Munich EV
Medal table
World Cup medals 2 × 2 × 2 × EM medals 0 × 3 × 1 ×
World figure skating championships gold Saint Petersburg 1896 Men's bronze London 1898 Men's silver Stockholm 1901 Men's gold Munich 1906 Men's bronze Vienna 1907 Men's silver Troppau 1908 Men's  European figure skating championships bronze Budapest 1895 Men's silver Vienna 1901 Men's silver Berlin 1907 Men's silver Budapest 1909 Men's

Anton Gilbert Fuchs (* 1871 in Graz ; † 1952 ) was a German figure skater and forest entomologist . He is the figure skating world champion from 1896 and 1906 .

Career

figure skating

As a figure skater, Fuchs became the first world champion in his sport. He started for the Munich EV and thus for Germany and trained in Germany's first public art hall , the Unsölds ice rink , which opened in 1892 . In 1896 he won the first world figure skating championship in Saint Petersburg . In 1906 he became world champion for the second time in Munich .

The relationship between him and his long-term rival Ulrich Salchow was tense. Salchow did not compete in Munich in 1906 because he feared discrimination by the judges in Fuchs' hometown, while Fuchs did not compete in the 1908 Olympic Games because he also felt that he was being treated unfairly by judges. Fuchs only defeated Salchow once, at the 1901 European Championships in Vienna . Here, however, he was “only” second. Gustav Hügel from Austria became European champion .

Gilbert Fuchs learned self-paced figure skating after practicing several other sports, such as gymnastics , weightlifting and stone throwing . He completed high school and then did military service in a cavalry regiment.

Results

Competition / year	1895	1896	1897	1898	1899	1900	1901	1902	1903	1904	1905	1906	1907	1908	1909
World championships	-	1.	(*)	3.	-	-	2.	-	-	-	-	1.	3.	2.	-
European championships	3.	-	-	-	-	-	2.	-	-	-	-	-	2.	-	2.
German championships	1.	1.	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.

(*) injured in an accident while hunting in the mountains

Forest scientist

Gilbert Fuchs studied soil culture in Vienna and forest science in Munich.

He carried out morphological studies on bark beetles , including the two-part work Morphological studies on bark beetles , and received his doctorate in 1929 on the post-war European timber industry .

Trivia

His grave is in the central cemetery in Villach .

Fonts (selection)

Forest science works

• On the reproductive conditions of the bark-breeding bark beetles combined with a historical and critical account of the previous literature , Munich 1907
• Morphological studies on bark beetles , 2nd part, Munich 1911/1912
• Farmer and large property in German Austria. Thoughts and suggestions for the formation of forest and pasture cooperatives, consolidation of farm estates, raising the peasant class. Political-economic study , Karlsruhe 1919
• New nematodes bound to bark and weevils, semi-parasitic and apartment tenants. Free-living nematodes from moss and forest soil in Borken- u. Weevil walks , in: Zoological Yearbooks , Volume 59, Jena 1930
• The post-war European timber industry , dissertation, Vienna 1931 (main volume and supplementary volume Austria's forestry and timber industry )
• Some nematodes in Scolytus scolytus F , in: Capita Zoologica, Deel 4, afl. 1, 's Gravenhage 1933
• New parasitic and semi-parasitic nematodes in bark beetles and some other nematodes , in: Zoologische Jahrbücher (Volume 70, Issues 5/6, Volume 71, Issues 1/2), Jena 1937/1938
• The Styrian state forests. Landscape, yield conditions, history , habilitation thesis, Graz 1958

Book about hunting

• For the Styrian Archduke Johann commemorative year 1959. Styrian hunting custom , Graz 1959

Books about figure skating

• Theory and Practice of Figure Skating on the Eise , Villach-Lind 1926 (2nd edition under the title Figure Skating in Theory and Practice , edited by Bartholomäus Rausch, Munich 1954)

Web links

• Literature by and about Gilbert Fuchs in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Information from the city of Villach . Archived from the original on September 1, 2011. Retrieved August 25, 2013.