Heini Klopfer
Heinrich "Heini" Klopfer (3 April 1918 in Oberstdorf – 18 November 1968) was a German ski jumper and architect. At age 17, Klopfer was selected for trials for the 1936 Winter Olympics, but failed to qualify. After World War II Klopfer, Sepp Weiler and Toni Brutscher became known as the Oberstdorf Jumping Trio.
Heini Klopfer
- Name
- Heini Klopfer
- Nationality
- German
- Born
- 3 April 1918
- Birthplace
- Immenstadt im Allgäu, Germany
- Died
- 18 November 1968
- Place of death
- Oberstdorf, Germany
- Occupation
- architect · ski jumper · skier
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Heinrich "Heini" Klopfer (3 April 1918 in Oberstdorf – 18 November 1968) was a German ski jumper and architect. At age 17, Klopfer was selected for trials for the 1936 Winter Olympics, but failed to qualify. After World War II Klopfer, Sepp Weiler and Toni Brutscher became known as the Oberstdorf Jumping Trio.
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He started working with construction of ski jumping hill. Klopfer has designed or been adviser for more than 250 hills. Main designs included all Olympic jumps used between 1960 and 1976, and he even designed one of the reconstructions of Holmenkollbakken in Oslo. He also was the ski jumping technical commissioner for the International Ski Federation. He died of a heart attack at the age of 50. In 1970, Heini-Klopfer-Skiflugschanze in Oberstdorf, one of the world's five ski flying hills, was named for him.
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• Name — Heini Klopfer • Full Name — Heinrich Klopfer • Nationality — German • Born — 3 April 1918 • Birthplace — Immenstadt im Allgäu, Germany • Died — 18 November 1968 • Place of death — Oberstdorf, Germany • Sport — Ski jumping • Show Medals — no
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1918
Heini Klopfer born at Immenstadt im Allgäu.
1968
Heini Klopfer died at Oberstdorf.
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Immenstadt im Allgäu.
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- 1.2013-10-18.
- 2.Bericht der Kommission für Erinnerungskultur für die Sitzung des Stadtrates Kempten (Allgäu) am 23. April 2026, S. 16.
- 3.Heini Klopfer – Architekt, Skispringer und Schanzenbauer. Website des Skiclubs 1906 Oberstdorf e. V. Abgerufen am 7. September 2020.
- 4.Die Idee zum Bau der Skiflugschanze 1949–1950. sepp-weiler.com.
- 5.Oskar Fischer. Heini Klopfer – vom Skispringen zum Skifliegen. Unser Oberstdorf (Heft 71). 2017-12-01.
- 6.Skisprungschanzen-Archiv, Monrepos-Schanze (Horst-Stragand-Schanze https://www.skisprungschanzen.com/DE/Schanzen/GER-Deutschland/RP-Rheinland-Pfalz/Neuwied/1044/)
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