Hermann Hänggi

Hermann Hänggi medal table
Gymnast
Switzerland
Olympic Summer Games
gold	1928 Amsterdam	Pommel horse
gold	1928 Amsterdam	Team all-around
silver	1928 Amsterdam	Individual all-around
bronze	1928 Amsterdam	Ingots

Hermann Hänggi (born October 15, 1894 in Mümliswil , † November 21, 1978 in Burgdorf ) was a Swiss gymnast and two-time Olympic champion .

Sports

Hänggi was the winner in artistic gymnastics at the Federal Gymnastics Festival in 1922 and also in 1925. At the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam he took part in all seven apparatus gymnastics competitions. He won the individual competition in the pommel horse , the silver medal in the individual all-around and was third on the parallel bars . He also won the team all-around with the Swiss team. On the horizontal bar he was fourth behind teammate Georges Miez , who was ten years his junior and who won the competition, and Eugen Mack , who was thirteen years oldwho won the bronze medal. In 1930 he was the overall and multiple individual winner at the French National Gymnastics Festival in Algiers .

Personal

Hermann Hänggi completed a commercial apprenticeship at Kammfabrik Mümliswil AG and Von Roll AG in Klus. From 1914 to 1918 he served as a field woman in the Swiss Army , then he learned French in Champagne and worked in Yverdon until 1923 . In 1923 he took a position as assistant accountant at the Schachtelkäsefabrik Alpina AG in Burgdorf , from 1943 he was an authorized signatory of Alpina AG and, after his retirement from 1964 to 1972, secretary of the board of directors. He married Frieda Gabi on September 27, 1924. The marriage resulted in two daughters.

swell

• Berner Tagblatt dated November 29, 1978
• Berner Tagblatt dated December 14, 1978
• Solothurner Zeitung of December 7, 1978

Web links

• Hermann Hänggi in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )