Otto Schrimpel

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Otto Schrimpel Ski jumping
Full name Otto Maria Franz Schrimpel
nation CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia
birthday July 29, 1895
place of birth Hohenelbe , Austria-Hungary
Career
status resigned
 

Otto Maria Franz Schrimpel (born July 29, 1895 in Hohenelbe , Austria-Hungary ) was a Czechoslovakian ski jumper .

Career

Schrimpel was born in Hohenelbe as the son of the lawyer and later mayor Hubert Schrimpel for many years . He attended high schools in Arnau and Hohenelbe and acquired an engineering degree in mechanical engineering and aircraft construction. As early as 1914, at the age of 19, together with his older colleague Quido Priesel, he was building a fully functional aircraft for the Ignatz Theodor Peter machine factory in Hohenelbe.

During the First World War he was first assigned to the Imperial Rifle Regiment No. 3 in Innichen , but in 1916 he volunteered for the Air Force . After training as an observer at the Aviation School in Wiener Neustadt , he was deployed as such in a two-seater Hansa-Brandenburg LDD on the Isonzo Front . After a serious gunshot wound and several months of convalescence after the insertion of a metal plate in one of his knee joints, he completed the basic training as a pilot in Klagenfurt - Annabichl with further training in Wiener Neustadt and combat training in Campoformido near Udine . On January 7, 1918, he earned his pilot's diploma. Then he was assigned to the fighter pilot company Flik 61J of Ernst Strohschneider and was used with a new Albatros / Oeffag D.III at Motta di Livenza . He had a total of five enemy kills, the last one being considered controversial for a long time, but is now considered proven by the historian Jiří Rajlich from the Military History Institute in Prague .

Skiing

Schrimpel started at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1925 in Janské Lázně in the Giant Mountains . After a jump of 42 meters and two jumps of 39 meters, he narrowly missed the medal ranks and finished the competition on the Rübezahl-Schanze in fourth place.

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SURNAME Schrimpel, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schrimpel, Otto Maria Franz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak ski jumper
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Hohenelbe , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century