Franz Wende, also in Czech František Wende (3 June 1904 in

Svoboda nad Úpou Svoboda nad Úpou (german: Freiheit an der Aupa) is a town in Trutnov District in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,900 inhabitants. It lies in the Giant Mountains in the valley of the Úpa River. Geography Svob ...

- 1968 in Bad Harzburg) was an

ethnic German , native_name_lang = de , region1 = , pop1 = 72,650,269 , region2 = , pop2 = 534,000 , region3 = , pop3 = 157,000 3,322,405 , region4 = , pop4 = ...

Czechoslovak ski jumper and

nordic combined Nordic combined is a winter sport in which athletes compete in cross-country skiing and ski jumping. The Nordic combined at the Winter Olympics has been held since the first ever Winter Olympics in 1924, while the FIS Nordic Combined World Cup ...

skier who has competed in the 1920s. He won two bronze medals at the

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships is a biennial nordic skiing event organized by the International Ski Federation (FIS). The World Championships was started in 1925 for men and opened for women's participation in 1954. World Championship eve ...

in ski jumping (1925) and Nordic combined (1927). He also competed in the individual event at 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, Franc ...

. Wende and other three Ethnic German sportspeople, members of the Hauptverband Deutscher Wintersportvereine in der ČSR, represented Czechoslovakia at the first Winter Olympics in Chamonix.Tajemství jedné dřevěnky
in ''Krkonoše - Jizerské hory'', 1995/12.

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* . Ski jumping profile * . Nordic combined profile * * Czech male ski jumpers Czech male Nordic combined skiers Czechoslovak male ski jumpers 1904 births 1968 deaths FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in Nordic combined FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in ski jumping Olympic ski jumpers of Czechoslovakia Olympic Nordic combined skiers of Czechoslovakia Ski jumpers at the 1924 Winter Olympics Nordic combined skiers at the 1928 Winter Olympics People from Trutnov District Sudeten German people Sportspeople from the Hradec Králové Region {{CzechRepublic-skijumping-bio-stub