Georg Gyssling

Biographical information

RolesCompeted in Olympic Games
SexMale
Full nameGeorg Philipp Carl Paul•Gyssling
Used nameGeorg•Gyssling
Other namesGeorge Gyssling, Georg Gyßling
Born16 June 1893 in Walce, Opolskie (POL)
Died8 January 1965 in Benidorm, Alicante (ESP)
Measurements185 cm
Affiliations?, New York (USA)
NOC Germany

Biography

George Gyssling was working in the German consulate in New York and had no bobsleigh experience at all when he was called up as a last-minute replacement after a series of bad crashes had left a number of German competitors in hospital. Nevertheless team Germany 2 entered the seventh place in the 1932 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid.

Gyssling went on to serve as German consul-general in Los Angeles during the late thirties. One of his responsibilities was to attempt to limit what the German authorities considered anti-Nazi propaganda in Hollywood movies. He was the man who was sent to complain about the Charlie Chaplin film, The Great Dictator, and films such as Confessions of a Nazi Spy. After Pearl Harbor he returned to Germany and worked in anti-American propaganda.

Results

Games Discipline (Sport) / Event NOC / Team Pos Medal As
1932 Winter Olympics Bobsleigh (Bobsleigh) GER Georg Gyssling
Four, Men (Olympic) Germany 2 7