Lotte Scheimpflug

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Lotte Scheimpflug Luge
Lotte Scheimpflug (around 1930)
Full name Karoline Scheimpflug
nation AustriaAustria Austria Italy (from 1945)
ItalyItaly 
birthday June 15, 1908
place of birth Innsbruck ,  Austria-Hungary
date of death January 30, 1997
Place of death Vienna ,  Austria
Career
society WSV Sterzing ,
SV "Enzian" Semmering
End of career 1958
Medal table
European Championship 1 × gold 0 × silver 2 × bronze
FIL European Luge Championships
gold 1929 Semmering Single seater
bronze 1954 Davos Single seater
bronze 1956 Imst Single seater
 

Karoline "Lotte" Scheimpflug , née Embacher (born June 15, 1908 in Innsbruck ; † January 30, 1997 in Vienna ), was an Austrian luge athlete who competed for Italy in her late career years .

life and career

family

Lotte Embacher followed the sporting tradition of her parents. Her father Philibert Embacher (⚔ during World War I) took part in the Austrian Ski Championships in 1908 for the Innsbruck Ski Club and achieved fifth place in the senior jump. Her mother Antonia "Toni" Embacher first started in downhill skiing for the Innsbruck ski club , later she started as a luge for Enzian Sterzing and won several national Italian and Austrian championships. On February 5, 1939 Toni Embacher-Kelderer won the Italian championships held in her hometown of Sterzing and on February 9, 1941 in Igls, the German war luge championships in age group I ( Grete Haid won the competition in the main class of women’s singles). Together with her two daughters Lotte and Herta, Toni Embacher also took part in several four and five-man bobsleigh races. Sister Herta was married to the shot putter Alois Schwabl .

Embacher's home club was the WSV Sterzing (1929–1931 and after the Second World War), in the meantime it started for the sports club “Enzian” Semmering (1934–1937). The red-blonde South Tyrolean married Wolfgang Scheimpflug (born 1899), the nephew of Theodor Scheimpflug , in October 1935 and took his name; the tobogganing couple met at the 1929 European Championships. In 1946 her husband had a fatal accident on a ski tour together.

Early career for Austria

After Lotte Embacher had won several national Austrian championships in women's singles from 1925, the twenty-year-old achieved her first international success in January 1929 when she triumphed at the third European Luge Championships at Semmering , with her compatriot Christine "Christl" Klecker and the German Fanni Altendorfer left behind. Embacher finished the national championships held at the same time on the artificial track in second behind Christl Klecker, on the natural track she won the championship title. In the years that followed - before and after her wedding - she took part in various national decisions and won the Austrian championship title four times - in 1931 (like her future husband) as well as in 1934, 1935 and 1937. In 1931 the line-up Embacher / Scheimpflug also reached third place in the national championships in mixed doubles. The luge career was then interrupted by the Second World War, as Scheimpflug did not take part in the few international and national competitions during this time.

Late career for Italy (from 1945)

After the World War, Lotte Scheimpflug started for Italy and accordingly took part in the Italian state championships that had been held since 1945/46, of which she won the first event. Scheimpflug, now widowed, won six other national titles between 1947 and 1956, had to take a break in 1948 due to a broken arm and returned to the international stage in February 1951 when the first post-war European championships were held in Igls. There she took fifth place, only beaten by Austrians, who - led by Karla Kienzl - took the first four places.

In the two following years Lotte Scheimpflug missed a podium finish at the European Championships before she won the bronze medal in Davos in 1954 behind Maria Isser and Karla Kienzl . The first World Luge Championships took place in Oslo on February 5 and 6, 1955 ; The South Tyrolean missed a World Championship medal behind Karla Kienzl, Maria Isser and Marianne Bauer in fourth place, the gap to the world champion was more than 25 seconds after four runs. In the following year, 1956, she repeated her bronze medal at the European Championships when the 48-year-old Scheimpflug was only beaten by Elly Lieber and Maria Isser, who were half her age . Scheimpflug's last international start was at the 1958 World Championships in Krynica ; there she ended her luge career after finishing 20th in the women's single-seater competition. As part of this event, Scheimpflug was presented with the Cup of Honor and the Medal of Honor of the International Luge Federation (FIL) in recognition of their more than 30 years of successful career .

International success

Scheimpflug took part in eight European championships and three world championships in women's singles between 1929 and 1958; except for her, no other participant could win a European championship medal both before and after World War II.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Winter sports festival in Zell am See. In: Salzburger Volksblatt of February 11, 1908, p. 7.
  2. ↑ Ski race Innsbruck. In: Allgemeine Tiroler Anzeiger of March 8, 1909, p. 6.
  3. ^ The title fights of the tobogganists. In: Neues Wiener Tagblatt from February 10, 1941, p. 7.
  4. ↑ Karoline Embacher Scheimpflug. In: findagrave.com , accessed December 24, 2017.
  5. ↑ Mixed championship duo Embacher-Scheimpflug. In: Sport-Tagblatt from October 25, 1935, p. 4.
  6. ↑ a b European Championships in Luge. In: Sport-Tagblatt from January 21, 1929, p. 4.
  7. ↑ European Championships in Luge. In: Sport-Tagblatt from January 23, 1929, p. 6.
  8. ^ The Austrian championship on artificial tracks. In: Sport-Tagblatt of January 22, 1929, p. 4.
  9. ↑ a b Luge championships of Austria on artificial tracks. In: Sport-Tagblatt from February 16, 1931, p. 5.
  10. ^ The toboggan championships of Austria. In: Sport-Tagblatt from January 26, 1934, p. 3.
  11. ↑ The Austrian Luge Championships. In: Sport-Tagblatt from February 18, 1935, p. 7.
  12. ^ State championship in the four-man bobsleigh. In: Sport-Tagblatt dated February 22, 1937, p. 6.
  13. ↑ Luge - Lotte Scheimpflug - Results. In: the-sports.org , accessed December 24, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Scheimpflug, Lotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Embacher, Karoline (maiden name); Embacher, Lotte (nickname); Scheimpflug, Karoline (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Italian luge athlete
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Innsbruck , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1997
Place of death Vienna , Austria