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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 {{Netherlands-fieldhockey-bio-stub