Max Engelhard

This article deals with the sports official Max Engelhard. For other people see Max Engelhardt .

Max Engelhard (born December 24, 1877 in Frankfurt am Main ; † November 28, 1940 ibid) was a German sports official , international figure skating judge, vice-president of the German Ice Skating Association (DEU) and entrepreneur.

Max Engelhard was the son of Karl Philipp Engelhard and his wife Marianne, geb. Rumpf, one of the daughters of the painter Philipp Rumpf , the co-founder of the Kronberg School of Painting .

Max Engelhard studied pharmacy and chemistry in Geneva , Leipzig and Heidelberg and received his doctorate in Munich in 1914 . He was a partner and managing director of the Karl Engelhard Pharmaceutical Preparations Factory , Frankfurt am Main. During the First World War he was an officer in the field artillery from 1914 to 1918 .

In his youth, Max Engelhard did sports: athletics , rugby , tennis , rowing , horse riding , ice skating, ice stock sport and ice hockey . He practiced ice sports with his wife and two children.

From 1911 he was a sports official and patron . From 1912 to 1914 he headed the Munich Ice Skating Club. From 1912 he was also a figure skating judge. In 1920 Max Engelhard was one of the founders of the Riessersee sports club. From 1921 he was a member of the board of the German Ice Skating Association , initially as an assessor, later as a member of the Art Skating Commission and for many years as the Association's second chairman. In 1922 he became an international judge and in 1925 an international championship judge. In 1929 he became an honorary member of the German Ice Skating Association. From 1933 he became a personal member of the German Reich Committee for physical exercises. Max Engelhard supported the couple Maxi Herber and Ernst Baier long before they got championship honors.

Max Engelhard was in charge of the organization and implementation of many ice sports competitions, such as the European Figure Skating Championships in Triberg in 1925, the European Figure Skating Championships in Berlin in 1936 and several German Figure Skating Championships , speed skating , ice hockey , ice shooting , speed skating and roller art skating . In 1933 he was appointed by the Minister of Sport, Dr. Ritter vom Halt commissioned to prepare, organize and hold all competitions on the ice for the Olympics in Garmisch. He was thus a member of the organizing committee for the IV Olympic Winter Games in 1936 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen .

On December 18, 1937, he resigned from all his offices for health reasons.

Max Engelhard died on 28 November 1940 cancer and was buried in Frankfurt.

literature

• Eis- und Rollersport, Reich magazine for German ice-roller sports, December 1937 and October 1940