Eduard Engelmann Jr. (14 July 1864 – 31 October 1944) was an Austrian

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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

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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

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, the Landessiechenanstalt Oberhollabrunn hospital, and was manager of the ''Niederösterreichischen Eisenbahnamtes'' (Lower Austrian Railway office) of the

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. In 1909, he built the first ever artificial

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on land, which was established as an ice rink by his father Eduard Engelmann Sr., in the

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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

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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

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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

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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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{{DEFAULTSORT:Engelmann Jr., Eduard 1864 births 1944 deaths Austrian male single skaters Unicyclists TU Wien alumni Figure skaters from Vienna European Figure Skating Championships medalists