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Update to Olympic Ice Stock Sport Players

Today on Oldest Olympians, we wanted to provide an update to eisstockschießen, the demonstration sport from the 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Olympics that had many competitors with missing biographical details. Thanks to new research Connor Mah, however, we can now fill in some of those gaps.

(Georg Edenhauser (left) and Friedrich Mosshammer (right))

To start off with the winner of the distance shooting event, and on a sad note, we have learned that Austrian Georg Edenhauser was born January 12, 1911 and completed suicide less than a year after his victory, on January 26, 1937. We also now know that the runner-up in that event, his compatriot Friedrich Mosshammer, was born July 15, 1895. The winner of the target shooting event that was open to all nations, Ignaz Reiterer, also of Austria, was born July 27, 1887 and died July 31, 1944.

(Wilhelm Silbermayr)

For the winning Austrians for the team event, we now know additional dates of birth: Wilhelm Silbermayr was born September 13, 1880, Anton Ritzl and his brother Otto were born October 18, 1894 and March 22, 1898 respectively, and Wilhelm Pichler was born May 19, 1897. For their compatriots from the third-placed team, we now have full biographical details for Friedrich Schieg, born February 14, 1877 and died November 20, 1970, as well as a date of birth for Hubert Lödler, October 31, 1906. For other full biographical information for Austrians, we now have August Ischepp born September 1, 1900 and died February 8, 1968; Josef Kleewein born May 24, 1890 and died June 8, 1941; and Anton Schaffernak born January 12, 1899 and died February 3, 1981. Additionally, we now have a date of birth for Isidor Waitschacher: May 9, 1895.

We also have updates from Connor Mah on some of the Czechoslovakian players. Fritz Brade was born November 10, 1890 and died June 12, 1940, while Friedrich Feistner was born August 29, 1893 and died March 10, 1941. We also have three additional competitors whose dates of birth were uncovered: Friedrich Arnhold, born December 20, 1894; Rudolf Kopal, born July 3, 1893; and Karl Wolfinger, born November 27, 1887.

Finally, as we continue to follow up from the death of Iris Cummings as the last known survivor of any pre-World War II Olympics, we note that the majority of the 1936 competitors for whom we could not confirm as alive deceased and have no date of birth are eisstockschießen players. Since we have covered them all in previous posts, we thought we would end this entry with a quick chart of those names.

(August Brunner)

NameCountry
Franz Xaver BachlGermany
Anton BaderGermany
Hans BauerGermany
Xaver BauerGermany
Bernhard BeckerGermany
Ruth BeckerGermany
Paul BeguschAustria
Hans BernhardtCzechoslovakia
Hans BielmeierGermany
August BrunnerGermany
Friedrich CzernichCzechoslovakia
Lisl DotzertGermany
Franz DürrGermany
Johann EibachGermany
Matthias EnzersbergerGermany
Otto EnzersbergerGermany
Ferdinand ErbGermany
Wilhelm FeistnerCzechoslovakia
Johann FichtlGermany
Hermann FuchsGermany
Martin GeisenhoferGermany
Sebastian GroeßGermany
Hans GroßmannCzechoslovakia
Hans HacklGermany
Josef HafnerAustria
Alois HaiderGermany
Otto HanffCzechoslovakia
Egon HärtlGermany
Alfred HeinCzechoslovakia
Lilli HerboldtGermany
Josef Hödl-SchlehoferAustria
Ida HolzerGermany
Herrmann JeddickeGermany
Anton JocherGermany
Lorenz JunkerGermany
Wilhelm KadelGermany
Hilde KaiserGermany
Josef KalkschmidAustria
Albert KarlGermany
Fritz KeckGermany
Hilde KeckGermany
Ida KellermannGermany
Englbert KigeleGermany
Franz KlarlGermany
Martha KnakGermany
Agnes KnudsenGermany
Josef KörnerGermany
Anton KrannerGermany
Josef KreitmeierGermany
Georg KronfeldnerGermany
Mathilde KronfeldnerGermany
Paula KülperGermany
Dora LandesGermany
Elise LandesGermany
Franz LawuggerAustria
Josef LechnerGermany
Josef LenzGermany
Elisabeth LuchterhandGermany
Georg LüftigerGermany
Josef MaierbruggerAustria
Josef MarxAustria
Karl MöbusGermany
Willi MohrGermany
Hans MoserGermany
Karl MöserGermany
Johann MrakitschAustria
Georg MüllerGermany
Josef NeunerGermany
Werner NiemeyerGermany
Roman OstermeierGermany
Johann OstlerGermany
Karl PfefferGermany
Kurt PfefferGermany
Max PfefferGermany
Theresia PfefferGermany
Rudolf RainerAustria
Josef RauferGermany
Otto ReisingerGermany
Ludwig RetzerGermany
Wolfgang RöckGermany
Hans SchwimmbeckGermany
Josef SeilmaierGermany
Lina StroblGermany
Ernst VoglerGermany
Rudolf WagnerAustria
Karl WeberGermany
Martha WeickelsdorferGermany
Maria WeinmüllerGermany
Eva WiedeGermany
Josef WirtGermany
Franz WörndleGermany
Heinrich WurstGermany
Franz ZaunerGermany
Hans ZellnerGermany