František Getreuer
.png) Getreuer in 1932 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | Czech | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 18 December 1906 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 6 February 1945 (aged 38) Dachau concentration camp, Nazi Germany[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Home town | Prague | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Water polo | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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František Getreuer (18 December 1906 – 6 February 1945) was a Czech national champion swimmer and Olympic water polo player.[2] He was murdered in Dachau concentration camp.
Biography
[edit]Getreuer competed in the men's tournament at the 1928 Summer Olympics, coming in 9th with the Czechoslovak water polo team.[3][4][5][6]
He won the gold medal in the 400m freestyle in the Third Slavic Swimming Championship in Warsaw, Poland, in 1929. In the 1930 Czechoslovak Championship held, Getreuer won gold medals in the 200m freestyle, 400m freestyle, 1,500m freestyle, and 4x200-meter freestyle relay.[7]
At the 1935 Maccabiah Games in Mandatory Palestine, Getreuer won gold medals in the 400m freestyle and the 1,500m freestyle, as well as a team gold meal in water polo.[8][9]
Getreuer was Jewish.[2] He lived in Prague, and was deported to Terezín concentration camp on 12 April 1941.[4] He was later transported from Terezín to Auschwitz concentration camp on 28 September 1944.[4]
He was murdered on 6 February 1945, at 38 years of age, in Dachau concentration camp, in Bayern, Germany.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "František Getreuer | Database of victims | Holocaust". holocaust.cz.
- ^ a b Jan Stumbauer (2010). "The Contribution to the History of the Jewish Sports in Czechoslovakia in the Years 1918–1939"
- ^ "František Getreuer". Olympics.com.
- ^ a b c d "František Getreuer". Olympedia.
- ^ "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Olympedia. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
- ^ Nigel McCrery (2021). The Undying Flame; Olympians Who Perished in the Second World War
- ^ הירדן, 7 אפריל 1935 — מסביב למונביר? השניה
- ^ "Maccabiah Games before World War II". sport-record.de.
- ^ דאר היום, 17 מאי 1935 — ןן הישגי ה"מכביה" השניה כתבה
External links
[edit]- František Getreuer at World Aquatics
- František Getreuer at Olympijskytym.cz (in Czech)
- 1906 births
- 1945 deaths
- Auschwitz concentration camp prisoners
- Competitors at the 1935 Maccabiah Games
- Czech male swimmers
- Czech people who died in Dachau concentration camp
- Czechoslovak Jews
- Czechoslovak male water polo players
- Jewish swimmers
- Maccabiah Games gold medalists
- Maccabiah Games competitors by country
- Maccabiah Games medalists in swimming
- Olympic water polo players for Czechoslovakia
- Sportspeople from Prague
- Theresienstadt Ghetto prisoners
- Water polo players at the 1928 Summer Olympics
- Czech male water polo players