Henri Carel Willem "Hans" Schnitger (August 5, 1915 – March 1, 2013) was a Dutch

field hockey Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting ci ...

player who competed in the

1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: ''Spiele der XI. Olympiade'') and commonly known as Berlin 1936 or the Nazi Olympics, were an international multi-sp ...

. Schnitger was a member of the Dutch field hockey team, which won the bronze medal. He played all five matches as forward. He was born in

Enschede Enschede (; known as in the local Twents dialect) is a municipality and city in the eastern Netherlands in the province of Overijssel and in the Twente region. The eastern parts of the urban area reaches the border of the German city of Gronau ...

, where he lived until his death.

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profileHans Schnitger's obituary
1915 births 2013 deaths Dutch male field hockey players Field hockey players at the 1936 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands Olympic field hockey players of the Netherlands Sportspeople from Enschede Olympic medalists in field hockey Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics {{Netherlands-fieldhockey-bio-stub