Heinrich Elbogen

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| nationality = Austrian

| birth_date = {{birth date|1872|6|18|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Paris, France

| death_date = {{death date and age|1927|12|8|1872|6|18|df=yes}}

| death_place = Vienna, Austria

| resting_place = Zentralfriedhof (also known as Vienna Central Cemetery), Wien Stadt, Vienna, A-1110 Austria

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| country = Austria

| sport = Sport shooting

| event = 1912 Olympic Games

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Heinrich Elbogen (18 June 1872 – 8 December 1927) was an Austrian sport shooter who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/el/heinrich-elbogen-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418060104/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/el/heinrich-elbogen-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Heinrich Elbogen |accessdate=20 November 2014 |work=Sports Reference}}{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/41210 |title=Heinrich Elbogen |work=Olympedia |access-date=6 June 2021}}

He was born on 18 June 1872 to a Jewish family in Paris, France, the second child and the only son of banker Guido Elbogen (1845–1918) and his wife Rosalie (Alie) (née Schwabacher; 1850–1940). Of his three sisters, one died in infancy; his youngest sister, Jenny, was a noted Esperantist.

When his father became President of the Anglo-Austrian Bank in Vienna,{{Cite book |url=https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://othes.univie.ac.at/730/1/06-13-2008_0109874.pdf&prev=search |title=10.4 Guido Elbogen |last=Kanner |first=Siegmund |work=Das Lotto in Österreich. Ein Beitrag zur Finanzgeschictite Österreichs (The Lotto in Austria, a contribution to the financial history of Austria) |publisher=Kaiser Wilhelm University of Strasbourg |year=1898 |location=Strasbourg |page=86}}{{Cite book |title=Nationale Konflikte und monetäre Einheit: ein Plädoyer für die Währungsunion |last=Nagel|first=Bernhard|last2=Nautz |first2=Jürgen P|publisher=Passagen Verlag |year=1999 |page=92 |language=German|location= Vienna}} the family moved to Vienna; his father also bought a country estate, Schloss Thalheim, in Lower Austria,Schloss Thalheim is in the village of Thalheim (Kapelln), today a part of Kapelln, Sankt Pölten-Land District; See :de:Liste der denkmalgeschützten Objekte in Kapelln#Denkmäler, Jakob Prandtauer. After restoration [http://www.schlossthalheim.at/en/historical-walls-history-manor-house.html it reopened in 2016 as a luxury hotel.]{{Cite web |last=Milchram |first=Gerhard |date=7 January 2019 |title=Schloss Thalheim bei Böheimkirchen |url=https://www.lexikon-provenienzforschung.org/thalheim-schloss |access-date=28 December 2020 |website=Kexicon der Ostereichischen Provenienz Forschung}} and the family spent their summers there.

He took part in the 1912 Summer Olympics at Stockholm as a member of the Austrian shooting team, which finished fourth in the team 100 metre running deer, single shots competition. In the 100 metre running deer, single shots event he finished seventh, and in the 100 metre running deer, double shots competition he finished 16th.{{Cite web |title=Heinrich Elbogen at the Olympic |url=https://www.olympiandatabase.com/index.php?id=85296&L=1 |access-date=29 December 2020 |website=Olympian Database}}

In 1916, while serving with the Austro-Hungarian Army during the First World War, Elbogen was taken prisoner by the Russians and kept in captivity in Siberia. He returned to Thalheim four years later, exhausted from having made a very long journey home, much of it on foot.

He died in Vienna on 8 December 1927, aged 55, and is buried at Vienna Central Cemetery.