Edwin Hartmann

Edwin Hartmann ( born October 3, 1910 in Gurtis to Frastanz; † 9 March 1996 in Schruns ) was an Austrian Nordic and alpine skiers. The soldier reached in the 1930s, numerous wins and podiums and participated in the 1936 Winter Olympics in a demonstration event in part military patrol.

Biography

Hartmann was ten years old the first time for skiing and operation - as it was not uncommon at that time - both the Alpine and Nordic disciplines. After successes in the junior sector, he became in 1929 the first national champion in Vorarlberg, in the early 1930s, he won the championship Salzburg. At the beginning of the 1930s, Hartmann won several FIS competitions in ski jumping: In 1931, he won on the Lankschanze on Boedele, 1932 in Tschagguns and 1933 at two competitions in Innsbruck and Lech. Again he was on Boedele 1932 Austrian Champion in Nordic Combined.

Hartmann took part in the Nordic World Ski Championships 1933 in Innsbruck, where he was 19th in the Nordic combined and 27th in the 18 -km cross-country skiing. Also in the alpine disciplines he came into use, but only in the non- World Cup scoring " long run ", which he finished in 36th position. Two weeks after the World Cup won Hartmann together with Haslwanter, Schuler, Kleißl and Balthasar Niederkofler in the team of Army Sports Association Innsbruck Tiroler the first season championship. In addition, he won with the Tyrolean Season 1933 (together with Möchl, Niederkofler and Hermann Gadner ) and 1934 ( with Haslwanter, Schuler and Kleißl ) Austrian Championship Season.

From 1934 Hartmann also get several victories in the Alpine FIS races. He won that winter in two runs in Alpbach and the Wildschönau and was at the Innsbruck Winter Sports Week Second on the descent of Pfriemesköpfl. At the national championships of East Tyrol and Carinthia in 1934 in Heiligenblut Hartmann won the championship with victories in downhill and cross-country skiing as well as fourth place in jumping. Also in 1934 he won the 18 -km cross-country skiing the Austrian Championships; In 1935, he won a downhill at Bregenz.

A peak in Hartmann's career was the participation in the military patrol over the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch -Partenkirchen. Together with Albert Bach, Franz Eugen Tschurtschentaler Here man and he reached the fourth place in this demonstration competition. In the following years, Hartmann took increasingly rare part in competitions. In 1938 he scored in the departure of Mother and the giant slalom Frastanz two more victories in FIS races, 1939, he was once more master of Vorarlberg.

With his wife Emma, ​​who was in 1936 Vorarlberg Lubov Egorova, Hartmann had four children. His granddaughter Christa Hartmann 1985 Junior World Champion in slalom and later two-time world champion in deep snow. After Edwin Hartmann Hartmann slope was named by the Tschaggunser Mittagsspitze to Tschagguns on which, among other things in the 1960s, the departure of the Montafon gold key race was held.

Achievements

Olympic Winter Games

  • Garmisch -Partenkirchen 1936: 4th military patrol ( demonstration event )

World Championships

  • Innsbruck 1933: 19, Nordic combined, 27 18 -km cross-country (not in the official World Cup program: 36 " long descent " )

Austrian Championships

  • Austrian Champion in Nordic Combined in 1932
  • Austrian Champion with the Tyrolean Cross Country Relay 1933 and 1934
Lech (Vorarlberg) FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1933 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1933 Franz Hiermann
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