Gustl Berauer

Gustl Berauer
Gustl Berauer (1939)
nation	Czechoslovakia German Empire
birthday	November 5, 1912
place of birth	Petzer ,  Austria-Hungary
date of death	May 18, 1986
Place of death	Schliersee ,  Germany
Career
National squad	since 1936
Medal table
World Cup medals 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Nordic World Ski Championships gold 1939 Zakopane Single (NH)

Gustav "Gustl" Berauer (born November 5, 1912 in Petzer ; † May 18, 1986 in Schliersee ) was a German skier who was successful in cross-country skiing and Nordic combined .

Career

Berauer took part in the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . In the Nordic combined he reached 14th place and ran the best time of all participants in the cross-country relay of Czechoslovakia , which took fifth place.

With the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Germany in 1938, Berauer joined the German squad. He joined the NSDAP in November 1938 and became a member of the SS . At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Zakopane in 1939 , he was the first German to win the Nordic Combined World Championship , making him the first ever German world champion in the Nordic ski disciplines. At the World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo in 1941 , he was able to successfully defend his title, but this world championship was officially canceled in 1946 at a congress of the Fédération Internationale de Ski (FIS). In March 1941 he won the Nordic Combined at the Lahti Ski Games . This made him the first athlete without Scandinavian origins to win the ski games.

In 1943, together with Walter König, he published the handbook of skiing in the Deutsches Alpenverlag Innsbruck.

Berauer experienced the Second World War as a sergeant in the mountain troops . After the war he could no longer practice his sport due to a serious wound on the Eastern Front . He then worked as a ski instructor. Shortly after the war, but according to his own statements, it wasn't until 1951 that Berauer opened a sports shop in Schliersee . From 1962 to 1970 he was Vice President of the German Ski Association . From 1966 he was a member of the Presidium of the German Sports Association for four years . From 1963 to 1975 he was chairman of the FIS Nordic Combined Committee. In 1986 he died in Schliersee. His son Christoph Berauer took over his business.

Greatest successes

• two-time world champion in Nordic combined ( Nordic all-around ): 1939, 1941 (1941, however, subsequently canceled due to the World War)
• Three times German champion in Nordic combined: 1939, 1940 and 1941
• two-time German champion in cross-country skiing over 18 km: 1940 and 1941

Web links

• Gustl Berauer in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Gustl Berauer in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Gustl Berauer in the Munzinger archive
• Obituary and portrait of Berauer on merkur-online.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Berno Bahro: SS Sport. Organization, function, meaning. Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn a. a. 2013, p. 174.
2. ↑ Results Lahti Ski Games
3. ↑ Gustl Berauer . In: Der Spiegel , February 19, 1949. Retrieved November 19, 2013. 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Intersport Berauer - About us . berauer.com. Archived from the original on March 16, 2014. Retrieved November 20, 2013.
5. ↑ Duell in der Luft In: Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung , Issue 8, 1941.