Willen Dick

Willen Dick
Personal information
Born (1897-09-10)September 10, 1897
Vejprty, Austria-Hungary
Died 1980
Wermelskirchen, West Germany

Wilhelm Josef Dick (1897–1980) was a Czechoslovakian ski jumper of 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.

References

  1. "Aussiger Bote 1967". archiv.pixelprint.info (in German). 1967. Retrieved 2015-02-20.
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