Career
In 1906 he recaptured the title in Munich. In 1906, Salchow did not compete in Munich, Fuchs" hometown, because he expected to be judged unfairly. Likewise, Fuchs did not participate in the 1908 Olympics because he felt the judges favored Salchow.
Only once did Fuchs place higher in a competition than Salchow, the 1901 Europeans in Vienna.
Fuchs learned figure skating on his own, after learning gymnastics, weightlifting, and stone put. After finishing secondary school, he served in a cavalry regiment, later studying agriculture in Vienna.
Still later, he moved to Munich, Bavaria, in Germany and studied forestry. He practiced on Germany"s first artificial ice rink, named "Unsöldsche Kunsteisbahn", which opened in 1892 and competed for Munich EV and Germany.
He wrote and published: "Theory and Practice of Figure Skating" (German: "Theorie und Praxis des Kunstlaufes am Eise").
Beyond figure skating, Fuchs studied the morphology of the bark beetle (German: Borkenkäfer). In 1929, in his late fifties, he wrote his Doctor of Philosophy thesis titled “European timber industry after the war” (German: "Europäische Holzwirtschaft der Nachkriegszeit"). ("War" here referred to the First World War)
(*) injured due to a hunting accident in the high mountains.