Hugo Kuranda

Hugo Kuranda was an Austrian skeleton racer who could not finish the first run at the 1948 St. Moritz Winter Olympics due to a fall. He worked as a journalist and was Reuters Vienna correspondent before World War II. After the war he became Swiss correspondent for the Daily Mail.

Kuranda was acquitted in 1937 by a Wien (Vienna) court on a charge of having disturbed public order and security by sending a dispatch to his London bureau concerning Foreign Minister Constantin von Neurath’s alleged proposal to Austria to conclude a defensive pact with Germany, Hungary and Italy.

Kuranda then appeared in the “Germany, index of Jews whose German nationality was annulled by the Nazi Regime, 1935-1944” record on Ancestry. He was also listed as a stateless person in 1940 when he unsuccessfully attempted to emigrate to Canada.