Edward Luckhaus

{{short description|Polish athlete}}

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| name = Edward Luckhaus

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| nationality = Polish

| sport = Athletics

| event = Triple jump

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1910|8|31|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Hlukhiv, Chernigov Governorate, Imperial Russia

| death_date = {{death date and age|1975|5|12|1910|8|31|df=yes}}

| death_place = Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm, Bavaria, West Germany

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Edward Gustaw Adolf Luckhaus (31 August 1910 – 12 May 1975) was a Polish athlete of German ethnicity. He competed in the men's triple jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/lu/edward-luckhaus-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418001928/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/lu/edward-luckhaus-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Edward Luckhaus Olympic Results |access-date=22 December 2017}}

During World War II he volunteered to Wehrmacht, fought on the Eastern Front and was taken as prisoner of war, being incarcerated in the POW camp in Gomel.{{cite web |url=http://www.olimpijski.pl/pl/bio/1319,luckhaus-edward-gustaw-adolf.html |title=Luckhaus Edward Gustaw Adolf (1910-1975) |work=Biografie • Olimpijski.pl |author=Polski Komitet Olimpijski |author-link=Polish Olympic Committee |access-date=23 December 2017}} After being released in 1948, he moved to Bavaria, where he lived with his family in Pfaffenhofen near Munich. He worked as a physical education teacher initially in the Benedictine monastery in Scheyern, later at the gymnasium in Pfaffenhofen.