Hermann Herbert Maria "Harry" Weiss (b. March 17, 1909 - d. May 16, 1979) was an Austrian ice hockey player. He played as a goaltender for the club Wiener EV and the Austria men's national ice hockey team. He competed at multiple Winter Olympic Games and Ice Hockey World Championships.

Life and career

Weiss was born in 1909. Weiss competed at the

1926 Ice Hockey European Championship The 1926 Ice Hockey European Championship was the 11th edition of the ice hockey tournament for European countries associated to the International Ice Hockey Federation. The tournament was played between January 11, and January 19, 1926, in Davos ...

, in ice hockey at the 1928 Winter Olympics, the

1930 Ice Hockey World Championships The 1930 Ice Hockey World Championships were held between January 30 and February 10, 1930, in Chamonix, France, Vienna, Austria, and Berlin, Germany. This event was the first world championships independent of hockey at the Olympics. Canada, ...

, the

1931 Ice Hockey World Championships The 1931 Ice Hockey World Championship was the fifth World Championship, an annual international ice hockey tournament. It took place between 1 and 8 February 1931 in Krynica, Poland. The tournament was won by Canada who were represented by the ...

, the

1933 Ice Hockey World Championships The 1933 Ice Hockey World Championships were held between February 18 and February 26, 1933, in Prague, Czechoslovakia. By winning its first-ever world championship, the United States deprived Canada of the world title for the first time in tourn ...

, the

1935 Ice Hockey World Championships The 1935 Ice Hockey World Championships were held from January 19 to January 27, 1935, at the Eisstadion Davos in Davos, Switzerland, in which a record 15 countries took part. The teams first played in four preliminary round groups (three groups o ...

, and in ice hockey at the 1936 Winter Olympics. Weiss played in all six games during the

1928 Winter Olympics The 1928 Winter Olympics, officially known as the II Olympic Winter Games (french: IIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver; german: II. Olympische Winterspiele; it, II Giochi olimpici invernali; rm, II Gieus olimpics d'enviern) and commonly known as St. M ...

and

1936 Winter Olympics The 1936 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IV Olympic Winter Games (german: IV. Olympische Winterspiele) and commonly known as Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936 ( bar, Garmasch-Partakurch 1936), were a winter multi-sport event held from 6 to 16 ...

as a goaltender. He was nominated for the Austrian ice hockey team for the

1924 Winter Olympics The 1924 Winter Olympics, officially known as the I Olympic Winter Games (french: Iers Jeux olympiques d'hiver) and commonly known as Chamonix 1924 ( frp, Chamôni 1924), were a winter multi-sport event which was held in 1924 in Chamonix, France ...

that was withdrawn at the last minute. After the 1928 Winter Olympics, Weiss was suspended from the Austrian national ice hockey team for ten months alongside

Herbert Klang Herbert Klang (born 1908, date of death unknown) was an Austrian ice hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1928 Winter Olympics The 1928 Winter Olympics, officially known as the II Olympic Winter Games (french: IIes Jeux ...

and Walter Sell. It is unclear what caused this suspension. Weiss played his last season of ice hockey in 1938-1939, where he joined the Swiss ice hockey team.

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. Weiss fled to Great Britain at the start of 1939 after persecution by

Nazis Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Na ...

in Austria because of his Jewish descent.

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Olympic ice hockey tournament 1928
* 1909 births 1979 deaths Austrian emigrants to the United Kingdom Austrian ice hockey goaltenders Austrian people of Jewish descent Ice hockey people from Vienna Ice hockey players at the 1928 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 1936 Winter Olympics Olympic ice hockey players of Austria {{Austria-icehockey-bio-stub