Hilde Doleschell

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Hilde Doleschell (born February 21, 1915 in Reichenberg , Bohemia as Hilde Walterová ; † April 19, 2013 in Guelph , Ontario , Canada) was a ski racer , tennis and hockey player . Until 1936 she started for her home country Czechoslovakia, from 1936/37 under the name Hilde Walter for Austria , where she lived since 1922, and during the time of National Socialism from 1938/39 for the German Reich . Her greatest successes in alpine skiing include two downhill victories in Kitzbühel ( Hahnenkamm race ) and St. Anton am Arlberg , victory in the German downhill championship in 1941 and participation in the 1936 Winter Olympics and the 1938 World Cup . 1941 As a center forward of the team of the Vienna AC , she became German runner-up in hockey in 1941 . In tennis, she was German champion in 1943 and Austrian champion in singles three times from 1946 to 1948. Several times she took part in the French Open and the Wimbledon Championships . In 1950 she emigrated to Canada and was still successful in tennis there. In 1957 she won the Canadian Championships in doubles.

biography

Hilde Walterová was born in Reichenberg and moved with her parents to the Austrian capital Vienna in 1922 . In her youth she was very active in sports. She celebrated victories in dressage and vaulting , won several national junior titles in tennis and was also a good athlete , table tennis and hockey player . At the beginning of the 1930s she also began intensively with alpine skiing . Although she could not show any international successes at first, she took part in the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen for Czechoslovakia . There she achieved 17th place in the downhill, but was disqualified in the slalom, which is why she remained without a result in the combination.

In the winter of 1936/37 she started as Hilde Walter for the Austrian Ski Association (ÖSV). She achieved her first top result with second place in the giant slalom in Davos and, after further top 10 results in the races for the White Ribbon in St. Moritz in 1938, secured a starting place for the World Championships in Engelberg . There she achieved positions in midfield with 15th place in the downhill and 16th in slalom and combination. After the annexation of Austria , she was part of the German ski team. She could not qualify for the 1939 World Cup, but five weeks after the missed World Cup she proved at the “1. Großdeutschen Downhill and Torlauf Championships ”in Kitzbühel with third place in slalom and combined as well as fourth place in the downhill, that it came close to the performances of the strong German runners. In March 1939 she reached third place in slalom, downhill and combined at the races for the Tschammer Cup in St. Anton .

In November 1939 she married the master baker Fritz Doleschell and from then on started under the name Hilde Doleschell. In the winter of 1940 she achieved second place in the giant slalom in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and at the German championships in 1940, which were held in St. Anton in March, as in the previous year, two third places in slalom and combined. Despite these results, Doleschell could not qualify for the - later canceled - World Championship in 1941 . But then she showed her strength again when she won the German downhill championship in Garmisch-Partenkirchen at the same time as Rosemarie Proxauf . In the slalom, she came fifth this time, making her second in the combination.

In the next few years, skiing largely came to a standstill due to the Second World War and Hilde Doleschell made headlines in tennis. On August 8, 1943, she won the German championship in Braunschweig with a two-set victory over Inge Hartelt . After the end of the war she was Austrian individual champion three times in a row from 1946 to 1948. In 1948 she was also involved in the international win against Italy . She also took part in the Wimbledon Championships from 1947 to 1949 and in the French Open in 1948. At the same time she also made a comeback in skiing. In March 1947 she won the downhill run of the Hahnenkamm race in Kitzbühel , and came third in both slalom and combined. In an ÖSV internal elimination for the Olympic Winter Games in 1948, however, she was defeated by the younger runners. She achieved her last major success on the ski slope in February 1948, when she won the Hannes Schneider Cup in St. Anton and came second in the combination with a fifth place in the slalom. Then she retired from ski racing.

In 1950, Hilde Doleschell and her husband emigrated with their son to Canada , near Toronto . Doleschell was again active as a tennis player in her new home from 1952 and was in the doubles final of the Canadian Championships for the first time the following year . In 1957 she won the tournament together with Louise Brown . In 1958 she reached the finals with Brown again and in 1961 it was enough for the two of them again for the Ontario Open Championship. In the following years, Doleschell withdrew more and more from tennis. Her husband became the owner of his own bakery, which he expanded into a chain with 70 branches, which brought the family financial prosperity.

Around 1970, Hilde Doleschell and her husband started breeding trotting horses on a 40-acre farm in Campbellville, around 50 kilometers southwest of Toronto near the Mohawk Racecourse, and they also built a good reputation here. After her husband Fritz died around 1995, she ran the stud for many years together with her son Michael, who was born in 1944, who also gained a reputation as a film critic and found an audience as the presenter of a program with classical music. She spent her final years in an old people's home, where she finally died at the age of 98, without much public sympathy. Until recently, animal welfare remained an important concern for them.

Sporting successes

Skiing

World championships

Victories in FIS races

tennis

  • German individual champion: 1943
  • Austrian champion in individual: 1939, 1941, 1946, 1947, 1948 and 1949 (no championship held in 1940)
  • Canadian Doubles Championships winner: 1957

hockey

As a member of the Vienna AC

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hilde Doleschell Obituary In: http://obittree.com , accessed on March 19, 2017.
  2. ↑ Gerd Falkner : 100 Years of the German Ski Association - Chronicle of German Skiing from the Beginnings to the Present . Volume 1, German Ski Association, Planegg 2005, ISBN 3-938963-01-8 , p. 169
  3. ↑ Gerd Falkner: 100 Years of the German Ski Association - Chronicle of German Skiing from the Beginnings to the Present . Volume 1, German Ski Association, Planegg 2005, ISBN 3-938963-01-8 , p. 170
  4. ↑ Gerd Falkner: 100 Years of the German Ski Association - Chronicle of German Skiing from the Beginnings to the Present . Volume 1, German Ski Association, Planegg 2005, ISBN 3-938963-01-8 , p. 174
  5. ↑ Daily entries for August 8, 1943 . www.chroniknet.de, accessed on December 10, 2010
  6. ↑ German champions in women's singles on the website of the German Tennis Federation , accessed on December 10, 2010
  7. ↑ Tournament schedule Roland Garros 1948 women singles ( Memento from May 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the French Tennis Association, accessed on December 10, 2010 (PDF; 71 kB)
  8. ↑ Past Champions. In: rogerscup.com. Retrieved April 3, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Doleschell, Hilde
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walterová, Hilde; Walter, Hilde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak-German-Canadian ski racer and tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichenberg , Bohemia , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 2013
Place of death Guelph , Ontario , Canada