Ludwig Kaufmann (athlete)
Ludwig Kaufmann (born May 17, 1910 in Traun , Upper Austria ; † on the night of August 11 to 12, 1976 ) was an Austrian athlete and athletics official.
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Ludwig Kaufmann was born on May 17, 1910 in what was then the small town of Traun, near Linz . Kaufmann dedicated his life to sport; As a 15-year-old in 1925 he was one of the founding members of the Traun football club SV Thea Traun . In the same year he made his first athletics start when he completed the 25 km road race Linz – Wilhering – Linz. Over the years he improved noticeably in various areas of athletics and was multiple Upper Austrian regional champion from 1930 to 1940, as well as the record holder in the pole vault , the 110-meter hurdles and the decathlon .
During this time he was already working as a functionary parallel to his own sporting career. Even then he was a member of the Austrian Youth Workforce (ÖJK) as a specialist in athletics and worked as an employee in the Upper Austria regional group of the Austrian Athletics Association (ÖLV). After the Second World War - he did his military service in Poland , France , Italy and the Soviet Union and did not return from Soviet captivity until November 1947 - Kaufmann took over the leadership of the LASK and Union Urfahr . From 1950 he belonged to the athletics section of Union Linz . From this, the ULC Linz emerged in 1953 , where Kaufmann acted as chairman until 1975. He was subsequently appointed club president in 1975. For many years he also worked as a regional specialist in the Union of Upper Austria .
Shortly before the start of the Austrian Athletics Championships in Linz in 1976, at which he would have been assigned as head of the award ceremony, Kaufmann died unexpectedly at the age of 66 on the night of August 11, 1976.
Just one year later, on the occasion of the Susi Lindner memorial meeting in his honor, the Ludwig Kaufmann Memorial Prize in the pole vault was held for the first time . This was demonstrably held at least 30 years later.
literature
- Bulletin of the Austrian Athletics Association (October 11, 1976), page 20
- Athletics - information, communications, news, reports, opinions (December 1992), page 5 (with photo by Ludwig Kaufmann)
Individual evidence
- ^ Bulletin of the Austrian Athletics Association (July 22, 1977) , accessed on August 14, 2019
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kaufmann, Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian athlete and athletics official |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 17, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Traun , Upper Austria , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 11, 1976 or August 12, 1976 |