- Eduard Engelmann Jr.
Eduard Engelmann Jr. (
July 14 1864 –October 31 1944 ) was an Austrian figure skater,engineer , andcyclist . He was a three-time gold medallist at theEuropean Figure Skating Championships . He had three children, all of whom became figure skaters: Edi, Helene and Christine, who marriedKarl Schäfer .Figure skating competition
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Olympic Games and World Championships were not yet established in Engelmann's time.";
European Figure Skating Championships
*1892 in Vienna – 1st place
*1893 inBerlin – 1st place
*1894 in Vienna – 1st placeEngineering
Engelmann studied at the
Vienna University of Technology , specializing in railway engineering. He built the Kraftwerk Wienerbruckpower station , the Landessiechenanstalt Oberhollabrunn hospital, and was manager of the "Niederösterreichischen Eisenbahnamtes" (Lower Austrian Railway office) of theMariazellerbahn .In 1909, he built the first ever artificial
ice rink on land, which was established as an ice rink by his fatherEduard Engelmann Sr. in theHernals district of Vienna. In 1912, he built, in Vienna's Heumarkt district, what was at the time the largest artificial ice rink in Europe. The rink was improved on in later years; in 1932, the ice rink covered 3,000 square meters. He built another rink inBudapest in 1922.In 1944, shortly after his death, the rink he built in Vienna-Hernals was bombed and totally destroyed. It was rebuilt after
World War II and reopened in 1946; today, the location holds a supermarket, which, since 1974, has had an artificial ice rink attached.Other
As a cyclist, Engelmann was one of the founders of the Wiener Cyclisten-Clubs (Cyclists Clubs of Vienna). He won the cycling championships for
unicyclist s three times in the German cyclists' union.External links
* [http://www.engelmann.co.at/k_history.htm Family history]
* [http://www.wuk.at/hochrad/historisch/e_engelmann.php Engelmann and the "Wiener Cyclisten Club"]Navigation
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