Hans Trauttenberg
(Baron) Hans Heinrich (von) Trauttenberg (born January 6, 1909 in Berlin , † October 1985 in Westminster , United Kingdom ) was an Austrian ice hockey player .
life and career
Hans Trauttenberg learned to play ice hockey with Louis Dufour at the Le Rosey boarding school in Rolle VD and Gstaad , Switzerland . Until at least 1926 he played for the school's ice hockey team, HC Rosey Gstaad . He studied from around 1928 at Cambridge University and played for their ice hockey team in the English championship. In November 1931 he returned to Austria and played in the 1931/32 and 1932/33 seasons for the Vienna Ice Skating Club , with which he became Viennese champion in 1932 and 1933 and Austrian champion in 1933 . In 1933 he got a job in London and then played for the team of the Streatham IHC . There he was often referred to as "Dickie" or "Dicky (von Trauttenberg)". In 1935 he won the Europa Cup with Streatham , the first European Cup competition for club teams in ice hockey.
Trauttenberg was considered the strongest Austrian defensive player of the 1930s. Trauttenberg was the captain and only legionnaire of the Austrian ice hockey team at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen .
After the departure of the Austrian team (7th place, ex aequo with the Hungarian team), Trauttenberg was also used as a referee in the further course of the tournament, for example in the intermediate round game between Canada and the eventual Olympic champion Great Britain, which was ultimately decisive for the gold medal .
Trauttenberg was an opponent of National Socialism . He convinced the majority of his teammates not to perform the "German greeting" when they marched past Adolf Hitler during the opening ceremony of the 1936 Winter Olympics (in contrast, the majority of the Austrian Olympic delegation at the time performed it).
Trauttenberg later took on British citizenship . He served in the British Army during World War II .
Achievements and Awards
- 1930 bronze medal at the European Championship
- 1931 bronze medal at the world championship
- 1932 silver medal at the European Championship
- 1933 silver medal at the European Championships
- eight times holder of the international badge of the ÖEHV
Web links
- Hannes Biedermann (blog): Austria's ice workers, Olympics and swastika. In: The Standard . December 2, 2013, accessed December 5, 2013 .
- Streatham Redskins - teams from the past ( Memento from April 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- Hans Trauttenberg in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Hans Trauttenberg at eliteprospects.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b "Dicky" Trauttenberg returns to Vienna. In: Die Stunden , November 10, 1931, p. 11 (online at ANNO ).
- ↑ Championnat de Suisse 1925/26 at hockeyarchives.info (French)
- ↑ Championnat d'Angleterre 1928/29 at hockeyarchives.info (French)
- ↑ Trauttenberg comes to Vienna. In: Neues Wiener Journal , November 22, 1931, p. 28 (online at ANNO ).
- ^ Vienna loses another ice hockey player: Hans Trauttenberg ... returns to England for professional reasons. In: Der Tag / Der Wiener Tag , January 3, 1934, p. 10 (online at ANNO ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Trauttenberg, Hans |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Trauttenberg, Baron Hans Heinrich von; Trauttenberg, Dickie from |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian ice hockey player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 6, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 1985 |
| Place of death | Westminster (London) |