Heinz Hinterauer

Heinz Hinterauer
Full name	Heinrich Hinterauer
nation	Austria
birthday	1900
place of birth	Zell am Moos ,  Austria-Hungary
date of death	after 1929
Place of death	Hohe Tauern ,  Austria
Career
discipline	Ski jumping Nordic combined cross-country skiing
society	Ski club Salzburg
End of career	1929

Heinrich Hinterauer , usually called Heinz (* 1900 in Zell am Moos , Upper Austria ; missing in the Hohe Tauern since 1929 ), was an Austrian alpinist and Nordic skier who was one of the Austrian and extended world leaders, especially in the 1920s. Hinterauer was a member of the Salzburg Ski Club and is often counted as a Salzburg citizen.

Career

In 1923 he reached Bad Hofgastein at the Austrian Ski Championships in ski jumping behind the Viennese Hans Mayringer and even before the Mühlbach ski pioneer Peter Radacher sen. second rank.

At the championships of the Salzkammergut in 1925 he was able to place himself in second place behind the Norwegian Johan Blomseth in cross-country skiing .

In the same year he came in 32nd place in cross-country skiing at the joint ski championships of Germany and Austria in Kitzbühel in a very strong field, in which both the best Germans and the top German Bohemians from Czechoslovakia were represented Class. In ski jumping he finished 10th and was the second best Austrian behind Adolf Putz from Tyrol . In the immediately subsequent jump around the ring Hofgastein to Hinterauer had on the Bilgeri-Schanze only the Norwegians Ole Reistad and the German Bohemia William Dick , a week out in Johannisbad the world champion crowned, admit defeat.

At the rendezvous races of the FIS in the Czechoslovakian Johannisbad (Janské Lázně) in the Giant Mountains , which were later promoted to the 2nd Nordic World Ski Championships by the International Ski Association , Hinterauer, as the best representative of the Austrian Ski Association, took 12th place overall in the jumping from the Rübezahl-Schanze and as the second best Austrian, 14th place in the Nordic combined .

Because of an angina suffered on site , Hinterauer was unable to take part in the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz . In 1929 he made a mountain tour in the Hohe Tauern , from which he never returned, since then he has been considered lost.

Results

Nordic World Ski Championships

• Johannisbad 1925 :
  • 12th place: ski jumping
  • 14th place: Nordic combined

Austrian ski championships

• Austrian Ski Championships 1923
  • 2nd place: ski jumping

swell

• Joachim Glaser, Kitzbühel 90 years ago: Strong Salzburgers and trouble. In: Salzburger Nachrichten of February 9, 2015, local section, p. 23.
• Eduard Muss: Heinrich Hinterauer. Friend of the mountains and ski pioneer. In: Irrsee-Nachrichten , issue 1/04, April 2004, pp. 10-11.