Wilhelm Dick Explained

Birth Date:1897 9, df=yes
Birth Place:Vejprty, Austria-Hungary
Death Date:1980
Death Place:Wermelskirchen, West Germany
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Wilhelm Josef Dick (10 September 1897 –1980) was a Czechoslovak ski jumper who competed in the 1920s. He won two ski jumping medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with a gold in 1925 and a silver in 1927.

At the 1926 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships he competed for Germany under the name Willy Dick.

He was a Sudeten German. After the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia after World War II he lived in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and in 1952 he moved to Wermelskirchen in North Rhine-Westphalia,[1] where he died in 1980.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Aussiger Bote 1967 . archiv.pixelprint.info. 1967. de. 2015-02-20.