Rudolf Kauschka

Rudolf Kauschka (born October 2, 1883 in Fugau , Austria-Hungary ; died April 2, 1960 in Kempten (Allgäu) ) was a German-Bohemian mountaineer , poet and luge rider .

Life

Rudolf Kauschka and his family moved from their native Fugau (Fukov) to Weißbach an der Tafelfichte (Bílý Potok pod Smrkem) around 1895 . In 1904 he finished his studies and became a customs officer like his father.

Kauschka went down in the history of tobogganing as the first European luge champion. In 1914 , Kauschka , who started for Bohemia , won the title on his home track in Reichenberg (now Liberec), ahead of Jakob Platzer from Italy and his compatriot Richard Simm . In the two-seater competition, he and Hans Gfäller won the bronze medal behind the Erwin Posselt / Karl Löbelt duo . Kauschka was also successful at the second edition of the European Championship, which only took place in Schreiberhau in 1928 , and won the silver medal behind Fritz Preissler . A year later he and the same Fritz Preissler won the silver medal in the two-seater. The German Bohemian also competed in the German championships and won them in 1922.

In addition to his luge career, Rudolf Kauschka was a well-known mountaineer in northern Bohemia . A large number of the most important climbing peaks in his homeland were first climbed by him from 1904. From 1906 he was a member of the Reichenberg section of the German and Austrian Alpine Club (DuOeAV). During the First World War , Kauschka served as a lieutenant in the 1st Mountain Guide Company on the Ortler Front . From 1920 he and friends visited the Lasörling area in East Tyrol every year , where they campaigned for the construction of the Neue Reichenberger Hütte , which opened in 1926. After the Second World War , like most German Bohemians, he had to leave his homeland, in 1946 (or 1947) he came to Kempten (Allgäu) , where he died in 1960.

In 1960 Siegfried Weiß from Gablonz put a plaque in honor of Kauschka on the Friedlander Zinne in the Jizera Mountains. There is also the Kauschka Tower named after him . In the Venediger group , the Kauschkahorn ( 2903 m ) was named after him in 1959 , and the path to the nearby Neue Reichenberger Hütte also bears his name.

literature

Pavel Fajgl, Otokar Simm, Milan Vrkoslav: Jizerské hory: horolezecký průvodce . Nakladatelství Milan Vrkoslav 1999 (1st edition), NH SAVANA 2010 (2nd edition)
Albrecht Kittler : Rudolf Kauschka (1883-1960). a biographical study of the climbing lyric poet of the Jizera Mountains, the toboggan master and alpinist . A. Kittler, Dresden 2008

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personal data
SURNAME	Kauschka, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Bohemian mountaineer and luge rider
DATE OF BIRTH	October 2, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH	Fugau
DATE OF DEATH	April 2, 1960
Place of death	Kempten (Allgäu)