Hedy Bienenfeld
Hertha (Hedy) Bienenfeld-Wertheimer (born October 17, 1907 , † 1976 ) was one of the most famous swimmers of the SC Hakoah Vienna .
Hedy Bienenfeld was the strongest breaststroke swimmer in Austria for a long time and won numerous championship titles. Her Austrian best performance over 100 m chest lasted from 1935 to 1956. She won competitions in Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary and the first two Maccabiads . In 1927 she and her club colleagues Fritzi Löwy and Idy Kohn won several medals at the European Swimming Championships in Bologna. She participated in the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam .
Only 73 years later, at the European Championships in Helsinki in 2000, the 22-year-old Austrian Maxim Podoprigora , who like Bienenfeld, Kohn and Löwy is of Jewish origin, managed to win another swimming medal for Austria.
Hedy Bienenfeld was married to the swimmer and trainer Zsigo Wertheimer . Friedrich Torberg is said to have been in love with Hedy Bienenfeld at the time he wrote "Der Schüler Gerber" and to have made a memorial to her as Lisa Berwald in the novel.
literature
- Joseph Siegman: Jewish Sports Legends: The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame (Washington DC, 2000)
- Bernard Postal, Jesse Silver, Roy Silver: Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports (New York, 1965)
Web links
- 100 years of Hoppauf Hakoah
- European Swimming Championships in Helsinki
- Hedy Bienenfeld in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bienenfeld, Hedy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bienenfeld-Wertheimer, Hertha |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian swimmer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 17, 1907 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1976 |