[1] In 1928 he finished 17th in the 18 km cross-country skiing event as well as 17th in the Nordic combined competition.

He won a bronze medal in the 4 x 10 km at the 1933 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Innsbruck.

Paumgarten's older brother Fridtjof (1903-1986) won several skiing competitions and was on the 1928 Austrian Olympic team, but did not compete due to a training injury.

His daughter Meta Paumgarten Burden died in an avalanche in Aspen, Colorado twenty years later, in 1972.

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