Josef Steinbach

Josef Steinbach (around 1900)

Josef Steinbach (No. 700) at the 1906 Olympic Intermediate Games

Family grave of the Steinbach family at the Vienna Central Cemetery

Josef Steinbach (born March 21, 1879 in Horschau im Egerland , district of Bischofteinitz , † January 15, 1937 in Vienna ) was an Austrian weightlifter and tug of war .

Career

At the age of 15, Steinbach moved to Vienna, where he began strength training. In 1898 he started his career as a weightlifter, in which he won his first national title in 1900. In 1902 he won his first Austro-Hungarian championship title.
In 1904 he became world champion for the first time; a year later he was able to successfully defend the title.

Olympic Intermediate Games 1906

For 1906 he received an invitation to the Olympic Intermediate Games in Athens . There he only had to admit defeat to the Greek Dimitrios Tofalos in the two-armed competition , who was able to take advantage of the home advantage. In one-armed lifting, however, he succeeded in winning the gold medal. He took fourth place with the Austrian tug-of-war team.

Steinbach then became a professional athlete and took part in numerous show competitions. He also challenged the German strength athlete Arthur Saxon several times to compete with him for the crown of professional world champion without Saxon taking up this challenge.

Steinbach set 35 world records in the course of his career. After finishing his active career, Steinbach ran an inn in Vienna-Erdberg until his death . In 1925 he appeared as an actor (in the role of a house servant) in the silent film Die Stadt ohne Juden . He was buried in an honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery (18-2-89).

His son Leopold "Poldi" Steinbach (1904–1944) was Austria's first European boxing champion.

literature

G. Spitaler: Steinbach Josef d. Ä .. In: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 13, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007–2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5 , p. 160 f. (Direct links on p. 160 , p. 161 ).

Web links

Josef Steinbach in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

↑ Josef Steinbach - strong parade athlete , Austria's athlete at the Olympic Games , ÖOC

personal data
SURNAME	Steinbach, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian weightlifter and tug of war
DATE OF BIRTH	March 21, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH	Horschau in the Egerland , district of Bischofteinitz
DATE OF DEATH	January 15, 1937
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Josef Steinbach - strong parade athlete , Austria's athlete at the Olympic Games , ÖOC