# Wilhelm Dick

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{{Short description|German-Czech ski jumper (1897–1980)}}
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{{MedalGold | [1925 Johannisbad](/source/1925_FIS_Nordic_World_Ski_Championships) | Individual large hill}}
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'''Wilhelm Josef Dick''' (10 September 1897  – 1980) was a German-Czech [ski jumper](/source/ski_jumper) who competed for [Czechoslovakia](/source/Czechoslovakia) and later Germany in the 1920s. He won two ski jumping medals at the [FIS Nordic World Ski Championships](/source/FIS_Nordic_World_Ski_Championships) with a gold in 1925 and a silver in 1927.

At the [1926 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships](/source/1926_FIS_Nordic_World_Ski_Championships) he competed for Germany under the name '''Willy Dick'''.

He was a [Sudeten German](/source/Sudeten_Germans). After the [expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia](/source/expulsion_of_Germans_from_Czechoslovakia) after World War II he lived in [Garmisch-Partenkirchen](/source/Garmisch-Partenkirchen) and in 1952 he moved to [Wermelskirchen](/source/Wermelskirchen) in [North Rhine-Westphalia](/source/North_Rhine-Westphalia),<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archiv.pixelprint.info/pixelprint/Aussiger_Bote/AB_1967/files/assets/basic-html/page396.html|title=Aussiger Bote 1967|website=archiv.pixelprint.info|date=1967|language=de|access-date=2015-02-20|archive-date=2015-02-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150220235356/http://archiv.pixelprint.info/pixelprint/Aussiger_Bote/AB_1967/files/assets/basic-html/page396.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> where he died in 1980.

==References==
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*{{FIS ski jumper|13527|W. Dick}}

{{Footer World Champions SJ Individual LH Men}}

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Category:1897 births
Category:1980 deaths
Category:German male ski jumpers
Category:Czechoslovak male ski jumpers
Category:Sudeten German people
Category:FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in ski jumping
Category:People from Vejprty
Category:Skiers from the Ústí nad Labem Region

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