Eduard Engelmann Jr. (14 July 1864 – 31 October 1944) was an Austrian
figure skater
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,
engineer
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, and
cyclist. He was a three-time gold medallist at the
European Figure Skating Championships. He had three children, all of whom became figure skaters: Edi,
Helene and Christine, who married
Karl Schäfer.
Figure skating competition
:''The
Olympic Games
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and
World Championships were not yet established in Engelmann's time.''
Engineering
Engelmann studied at the
Vienna University of Technology, specializing in railway engineering. He built the Kraftwerk Wienerbruck
power station
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Many p ...
, the Landessiechenanstalt Oberhollabrunn hospital, and was manager of the ''Niederösterreichischen Eisenbahnamtes'' (Lower Austrian Railway office) of the
Mariazellerbahn
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.
In 1909, he built the first ever artificial
ice rink
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on land, which was established as an ice rink by his father
Eduard Engelmann Sr., in the
Hernals
Hernals (; Viennese German: Hernois) is the 17th district of Vienna, Austria (german: 17. Bezirk, Hernals).
Hernals is in northwest Vienna.Statistik Austria, 2007, webpagestatistik.at-23450.
Wien.gv.at webpage (see below: References).
It was anne ...
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 in
Budapest
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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
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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
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s three times in the German cyclists' union.
External links
Family historyEngelmann and the "Wiener Cyclisten Club"
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1864 births
1944 deaths
Austrian male single skaters
Unicyclists
TU Wien alumni
Figure skaters from Vienna
European Figure Skating Championships medalists