Josef Staudinger (water diver)

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Personal information
Nickname (s): Sepp
Nationality: AustriaAustria Austria
Discipline (s) : Art and high diving
Birthday: November 2, 1906
Place of birth: Vienna
Date of death: April 1998
Place of death: Vienna
Size: 173 cm
Medals

Joseph "Sepp" Staudinger (born November 2, 1906 in Vienna ; † April 1998 ibid) was an Austrian diver . He became European champion in diving in 1931 and took part in the Summer Olympics in 1928 and 1932 .

Life and athletic career

Josef Staudinger was born on November 2, 1906 as the son of Johann August Staudinger and Maria, née Bruckner, in Vienna, where he grew up and worked as a sports teacher. At the age of 21, he took part in the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam , where he took 6th place in both artificial jumping from the 3-meter board and tower diving from the 10-meter board. At the European Swimming Championships in Paris in 1931 , he won the gold medal in diving.

Staudinger crossed the Atlantic Ocean on the passenger steamer Europa in July 1932 together with the Austrian Olympic squad .

Four years later he qualified for the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and on July 10, 1932, joined the Austrian Olympic squad in Bremen on the six-day cruise on the modern European steamship to New York . Together with Staudinger, among others, the foil fencer Ellen Preis , the wrestler Nikolaus Hirschl , the weightlifter Karl Hipfinger and Staudinger's future wife, the water diver Madi Epply ; Also on board were the German sports journalist Kurt Doerry and the press illustrator Emil Stumpp from Berlin. At the competitions in Los Angeles, Staudinger narrowly missed the medal ranks in high diving and came fourth among eight participants from five countries. In jumping he finished the competitions on the 9th place.

Sepp Staudinger died in April 1998 at the age of 92 in Vienna and found his final resting place on April 24, 1998 in the family grave in the Hernals cemetery (group B, no. 84).

family

On June 29, 1935, Staudinger married his sports colleague Magdalena "Madi" Epply (1907–2005) in Vienna. The marriage ended in divorce in 1942. In his second marriage, Staudinger was married to Alma Pascher , a water diver , from 1946 .

Media response

Josef Staudinger and Madi Epply were a popular motif of the sports photographer Lothar Rübelt (1901–1990) during their training and competition jumps in the 1930s , whose works are now in museums and collections and are sold at high prices at auctions. In 1985 a poster for the special photography exhibition "The Secret of Moments" in the Albertina in Vienna showed a Rübelt photo taken in 1932 of the Staudinger / Epply couple jumping from the 10-meter tower into Lake Millstatt . Another double jump photo from 1935 with the title "Mädy Epply and Sepp Staudinger doing a double jump from the 10-meter tower" can be seen on the cover of the book accompanying the exhibition "Im Blickpunkt", which was published in 2002 by the Austrian photo collection National Library was hosted.

The Austrian media showed great interest in the internationally successful top athlete. His wedding photo was printed in the 1935 yearbook of the Berliner Illustrirten Zeitung .

Staudinger family grave in the Hernalser Friedhof in Vienna

Trivia

The scrapbook "Record in Sport" published in 1934 also contained a scrap picture with a photo of Josef Staudinger. It was an album for cigarette pictures from the Dresden cigarette factory Greiling, for which the German sports journalist Kurt Doerry had written the lyrics.

Web links

Sepp Staudinger on photos by Lothar Rübelt:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ European champion in diving. In: sport-komplett.de. Retrieved March 29, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Ancestry.com. New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 [database on-line] . Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Year: 1932; Arrival: New York, New York; Microfilm series: T715, 1897-1957; Microfilm No. 5188; P. 76; Line 7.
  3. ^ Josef Staudinger. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved March 29, 2020 .
  4. ^ Josef Staudinger. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved March 29, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Object of the month August 2016: Gold for Austria! With the Ellen Müller Prize at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. In: wien.gv.at. Vienna Library, July 29, 2016, accessed on March 29, 2020 (Sepp Staudinger on the photo on the far left, next to him is Madi Epply).
  6. ↑ a b marriage book Pf. Wien Gersthof, tom. X, fol. 17. In: Matricula. Retrieved March 29, 2020 .
  7. ^ Wedding Mädi Epply with Sepp Staudinger. In: bildarchivaustria.at. Image archive of the Austrian National Library, accessed on March 29, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Markus Mittringer: Head jumps, wars, the built: Austria in the picture . In: The Standard . December 26, 2002 ( online ).
  9. ↑ Photo Mädi Epply and Sepp Staudinger diving in the tower . In: bildarchivaustria.at. Image archive of the Austrian National Library, accessed on March 29, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung: Yearbook 1935, p. 94. In: fernsehmuseum.info. Retrieved March 29, 2020 .
  11. ^ Cigarette factory Greiling (ed.): Scrapbook record in sport . 1934 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Staudinger, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Staudinger, Sepp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian diver
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 1998
Place of death Vienna