Henri Carel Willem "Hans" Schnitger (August 5, 1915 – March 1, 2013) was a Dutch
field hockey
Field hockey (or simply referred to as hockey in some countries where ice hockey is not popular) is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with 11 players in total, made up of 10 field players and a goalk ...
player who competed in the
1936 Summer Olympics
The 1936 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad () and officially branded as Berlin 1936, were an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, then capital of Nazi Germany. Berlin won the bid to ...
. Schnitger was a member of the Dutch field hockey team, which won the bronze medal. He played all five matches as forward. He was born in
Enschede
Enschede (; local ) is a list of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the province of Overijssel and the Twente region of the eastern Netherlands. The east of the urban area reaches ...
, where he lived until his death.
External links
Henri Schnitger at databaseOlympics.comHans Schnitger's obituary
1915 births
2013 deaths
Dutch male field hockey players
Field hockey players at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands
Olympic field hockey players for the Netherlands
Sportspeople from Enschede
Olympic medalists in field hockey
Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics
20th-century Dutch sportsmen
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