Martha Bachem

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Martha Bachem (born June 8, 1924 in Vienna as Martha Musilek ; † May 29, 2015 ) was a German-Austrian figure skater .

Life

At the European Figure Skating Championships in Davos in 1939 , she came ninth. At the World Figure Skating Championships in the same year, instead of for Austria as at the European Championships, she competed for the German Empire and reached seventh place. During the Second World War she was trained by Karl Schäfer in Austria. She took part in the German Figure Skating Championships several times . In 1939 in Krefeld , and in 1940 in Munich , she was third in each case. In 1941 she achieved second place behind Hanne Niernberger . At the championships in 1942 in Vienna , 1943 in Hamburg and 1944 in Munich, she was each German champion. At the end of September / beginning of October 1944 she married Hans Erich Bachem (1920–1993) and then lived with him and their daughter in Cologne . She did not take part in the German Figure Skating Championships in Garmisch in 1947 .

After Germany was not admitted to the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz , Bachem, who had German citizenship through her marriage and the former annexation of Austria , decided to apply for her original Austrian citizenship again at the Austrian Repatriation Commission in Munich. Since this was possible for all women whose place of birth stated Austria as their place of birth and who wished to return home without their "Reich German" husband, she was able to travel to Austria with her daughter and was an Austrian citizen until the final decision on her application equated. In the course of this , the Austrian NOK admitted her to the Winter Olympics and Bachem competed in figure skating and reached ninth place. She then went to Austria at the World Figure Skating Championships in Davos in 1948 , where she reached seventh place, as well as at the 1948 European Figure Skating Championships in Prague , where she reached eleventh place. Since Bachem had no interest in divorcing her husband and thus did not receive Austrian citizenship, she and her daughter were put on the list of persons to be deported and returned to Germany.

In 1957 she gave birth to her second daughter.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The New Universe , Volume 64 (1944)
  2. ↑ Josef Schöner, Eva-Marie Csáky: Wiener Tagebuch 1944/1945, page 51 (1992)
  3. ↑ Josef Schöner, Eva-Marie Csáky: Wiener Tagebuch 1944/1945, page 51, and page 469 (1992)
  4. ↑ Portrait: Hans Erich Bachem: At the pay table of development aid , September 29, 1967, Die Zeit
  5. ↑ http://www.das-ritterkreuz.de/index_search_db.php4?modul=search_result_det&wert1=127
  6. ↑ Eisgekrönte Ingemaus , March 18, 1947, Der Spiegel 10/1947
personal data
SURNAME Bachem, Martha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Musilek, Martha (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian figure skater
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 2015