Gustav Lantschner

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Guzzi Lantschner Alpine skiing
nation AustriaAustria Austria German Empire
German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) 
birthday August 12, 1910
place of birth innsbruck
date of death March 19, 2011
Place of death Krailling
Career
discipline Downhill , slalom , combination
society Innsbruck Skiers Association
End of career 1937
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
World Cup medals 1 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
silver Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936 combination
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
gold Cortina d'Ampezzo 1932 Departure
bronze Cortina d'Ampezzo 1932 combination
silver Innsbruck 1933 slalom
 

Gustav "Guzzi" Lantschner (born August 12, 1910 in Innsbruck , † March 19, 2011 in Krailling ) was an Austrian - German ski racer , director , cameraman and film actor . He was one of the stars of alpine skiing in the 1930s. Lantschner became world champion in the downhill in 1932. He won a total of three medals at world championships and the silver medal at the 1936 Winter Olympics.

Life

Gustav Lantschner, like his two sisters Inge and Hadwig and his brothers Otto and Gerhard, came from a ski-loving family. He studied at the University of Innsbruck and from the end of the 1920s took part in competitions in both Nordic and Alpine skiing, and celebrated his far greater successes in the alpine world. In 1929 he won the Davos slalom for the first time in an international race. On January 14, 1930, he set a new speed record on skis in the first Kilomètre Lancé race in St. Moritz with 105.675 km / h .

The 19-year-old achieved great success when he became academic world champion in downhill skiing in Davos in front of his brother Otto in 1930. At the first Alpine World Ski Championships in Mürren in 1931 , he came in fifth behind four Swiss riders. At the Academic World Championships in Gstaad in 1931 , he took second place in downhill skiing, jumping and combined skiing.

Lantschner celebrated his greatest success at the 1932 World Cup in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy . With a lead of 2.6 seconds over the Swiss David Zogg , he won the gold medal in the downhill and became the first Austrian world champion in the history of alpine skiing. With tenth place in the slalom, he also won the bronze medal in the combination. A year later, Lantschner won the silver medal in slalom at the 1933 World Championships in his hometown Innsbruck, behind his Tyrolean compatriot Anton Seelos . Because of a botched descent, he only came in fifth in the Alpine Combined. In the World Cup - ski jumping from the Bergiselschanze he placed at the 47th overall place.

In the following years, Lantschner concentrated more on his professional career in film, moved to Berlin and took German citizenship in 1935. In 1936 he returned to skiing again and competed for the German Empire at the Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . In the alpine competition, which was part of the Olympic program for the first time, he secured the silver medal behind Franz Pfnür thanks to a good performance in the slalom and thus ensured a German double success. In 1937 he finally ended his sports career.

Lantschner's success on skis also made him a well-known star in various adventure and mountain films. In 1930 he was seen for the first time in front of the camera in Arnold Fanck's Storms over Mont Blanc . The following year he played alongside Leni Riefenstahl in The White Rush . The success of this ski film classic, in which he played a Hamburg carpenter couple together with Walter Riml from Innsbruck , led to further joint roles in Adventure in the Engadine (1932) and in the film North Pole - Ahoi! or oops - both of us! (1934). Lantschner and Walter Riml were then regarded as the German answer to the comedian duo Pat & Patachon . After assistant director for his former film partner Leni Riefenstahl on the documentary Triumph des Willens over the Nazi party rally in 1934, Lantschner worked as a cameraman for Olympia-Film GmbH on Riefenstahl's Olympic films between 1936 and 1938 , after she had previously trained him for nine months. Together with Harald Reinl , also an employee of Fanck, he shot the documentary films Wildwasser und Osterskitour in Tirol in 1938/39 . Both strips were produced by Riefenstahl.

In the period from 1940 to 1945, the name Guzzi Lantschner often appears in the list of war reporters at the German newsreel .

After the war, Lantschner lived in South Tyrol for some time before moving to Argentina for seven years . There he made other films and was involved in setting up several ski schools with his compatriot Hans Nöbl . At the beginning of the 1960s he returned to Europe, got married and had a son. He didn't stop skiing until the age of 88. In 2008 he appeared in the documentary Ski Heil - The two boards that mean the world alongside his former racing colleagues Eberhard Kneisl , Karl Koller and Richard Rossmann . Lantschner last lived in Munich .

Sporting successes

winter Olympics

World championships

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.waldkirche-planegg.de/Gemeindebrief/Gemeindebrief June - August 2011.pdf (link not available)
  2. ↑ (caption :) Guzzi Lantschner and Walter Riml, the two funny winter sports enthusiasts, in "Oops, both of us.". In:  The interesting sheet / Wiener Illustrierte , No. 2/1934 (LIII. Volume), January 11, 1934, p. 17, bottom left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / dib.
  3. ↑ Angelika Taschen : Leni Riefenstahl. Five lives. Taschen, Cologne 2000, p. 289
  4. ↑ ÖSV ski veteran Gustav Lantschner turns 100. Oberösterreichische Nachrichten, August 10, 2010, accessed on November 1, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Lantschner, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lantschner, Guzzi (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-German ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 2011
Place of death Krailling