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Kálmán Cseh von Szent-Katolna

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Kálmán Cseh von Szent-Katolna
Personal information
NationalityHungarian
Born(1892-11-28)28 November 1892
Budapest, Austria-Hungary
Died14 March 1986(1986-03-14) (aged 93)
Budapest, Hungary[1]
Sport
SportEquestrian

Kálmán Cseh von Szent-Katolna (28 November 1892 – 14 March 1986) was a Hungarian equestrian. He competed in four events at the 1928 Summer Olympics.[2]

Personal life

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Cseh served as an officer in the Royal Hungarian Army.[1] During the Second World War, he was the commandant of the Dawidowa concentration camp where his fellow Olympian Attila Petschauer was a prisoner and submitted him to sadistic treatments. In winter Cseh forced Attila to fetch water for the kitchen barefoot or to sleep naked on trees with water poured over him as well as having guards beat him with a wire whip so severely that his spine was exposed.[3][4]

In 1944/45 he participated in the resistance movement. The Nazis locked him up and deported him to the West.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Kálmán Cseh". Olympedia. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
  2. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Kálmán Cseh von Szent-Katolna Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  3. ^ "Olympedia – Kálmán Cseh". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved 18 April 2023.
  4. ^ "אטילה פטשאואר היה אלוף אולימפי מטעם הונגריה. במחנה העבודה, חברו למשלחת הורה "לטפל ביהודי"". הארץ (in Hebrew). Retrieved 18 April 2023.
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