Rudolf Edinger

In his early years Austrian Rudolf Edinger was a football (soccer) player and co-founded SC Siebenhirten in 1919. The same year he started weightlifting and finished third at the German Fighting Games at Berlin in the lightweight class.

Edinger won the lightweight class 1923 World Championships. He then placed disappointing 24th at the 1924 Paris Olympics in the middleweight class as he had no valid lift in the one-hand clean & jerk element. Edinger set two middleweight world records in the press in 1926 and 1927.

Edinger trained as a butcher and over took his father’s butchery business after his premature death. In 1937 Edinger founded his own butchers. In 1942 he was drafted by the German Wehrmacht and fought in World War II. After the war he built up a new butchery at Wien (Vienna) out of a derelict building.