Karel Hartmann (6 July 1885 – c. 16 October 1944) was a
Czechoslovak ice hockey player who competed in the
Olympic games in 1920. He was a member of the national team that won the bronze medal in
Antwerp
Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504, .
He and his family were killed in
the Holocaust.
Biography
Hartmann was born in
Trhové Dušníky
Trhové Dušníky is a municipality and village in Příbram District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 400 inhabitants. It lies on the Litavka river.
Notable people
*Moritz Hartmann (1821–1872), poet, politician ...
into a
Czech Jewish family, to parents Max and Emilie, nee Hammerschlag. His great-uncle was
Moritz Hartmann.
[ ] In 1922 he succeeded
Paul Loicq
Paul Loicq (11 August 1888 – 26 March 1953) was a Belgian lawyer, businessman and ice hockey player, coach, referee and administrator. He played ice hockey for Belgium men's national ice hockey team and won four bronze medals from in 1910 to ...
as vice-president of the
International Ice Hockey Federation.
In 1923 he was appointed the President of the
Czechoslovak Hockey Association On 23 July 1942, two weeks after his 57th birthday, he was transported from Prague to the
Terezín Ghetto.
From there on 16 October 1944, Hartmann, his wife and their two sons were transported to
Auschwitz concentration camp
Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It con ...
, where Karel and Edita were most likely murdered upon arrival.
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1885 births
1944 deaths
Czech people who died in Auschwitz concentration camp
Czech Jews who died in the Holocaust
Czech ice hockey forwards
Ice hockey players at the 1920 Summer Olympics
Jewish ice hockey players
Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Czechoslovakia
Olympic ice hockey players of Czechoslovakia
Olympic medalists in ice hockey
People from Příbram District
People from the Kingdom of Bohemia
Sportspeople from the Central Bohemian Region
Czech ice hockey defencemen
Czechoslovak ice hockey forwards
Czechoslovak ice hockey defencemen
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