!!!Gastgeb, Hans

b. Vienna, April 18, 1897, 
d. Vienna, April 4, 1970, typesetter, sports functionary. From 
1926-1934 and from 1945-1962 federal secretary of the  ASKOe (Working 
Group for Sport and Physical Training in Austria); played a leading 
role in organising the second Worker's Olympics in Vienna in 1931 and 
big ASKOe sporting events after 1945; functionary in international 
workers' sports associations, victim of political persecution at the 
time of the corporative state and during the NS regime.

!Works
Vom Wirtshaus zum Stadion, 1952 (ed.); 50 Jahre Internationaler 
Arbeitersport, 1963.

!Literature
sport-askoe-revue, 1987.



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