Austrian Fencing Association

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The Austrian Fencing Association (ÖFV) is the Austrian umbrella organization for the sport of fencing and thus belongs to the International Fencing Association (FIE).

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history

Predecessor organizations

The sport of fencing has a long tradition in Austria. The "Steiermärkische Landesfechtclub", founded in Graz as a scenic fencing school in 1624, is the second oldest fencing club in the world. The club system, however, did not emerge until the second half of the 19th century, when the purpose of fencing training shifted from military to sport. In the early days, however, the clubs hardly had any contact with one another. In 1887, a German-Austrian fencing association was founded in Mannheim by the Viennese fencing master Johann Hartl, but it quickly disbanded. A year later Hartl founded the "Austrian Fencing Association", Constantin von Schilder the competing "Association of Austro-Hungarian Fencing Clubs".

The first nationally relevant and at the same time last association in which all fencing schools were represented is the German and Austrian Fencing Association founded in Berlin in 1897 . 1897–1899 German championships with Austrian participation took place. From 1901 the seat of the DÖFB was in Vienna, chairman of the Viennese Camillo Müller. In 1902 the association dissolved after the German national fencing clubs, which were still attached to the old fencing school, had resigned.

The resulting hole is filled by the "Academy of Fencing Art" founded by Luigi Barbasetti in 1904 . In 1906 she organized the first Austrian fencing championships.

The ÖFV since 1929

Richard Brunner, Felix La Croix, Kurt Oberleithner, Hans Schönbaumsfeld, Kurt Ettinger and Hans Toch found the "Austrian Fencing Association" in 1929, with Richard Brunner becoming the first president. From May 27 to June 4, 1931, the association holds the first major tournament in Austria with the International Fencing Championships in the Wiener Konzerthaus . At the Olympic Games in 1932 , the ÖFV won its only Olympic gold so far through Ellen Preis in the women's floret. In 1938 the ÖFV had to be dissolved because of the annexation to the German Reich.

In 1946 the ÖFV was re-established by Franz Chrudimak, Colonel Richard Verderber , Rudi Losert and Hans Toch.

President

  • 1945–1946: Friedrich Golling
  • 1947–1949: Franz Chrudimak
  • 1949–1952: Karl Hanisch
  • 1952–1971: Hermann Resch
  • 1971–1987: Peter Ulrich-Pur
  • 1987–1989: Peter Berger
  • 1989–1994: Rainer Mauritz
  • 1994–2000: Klaus Vorreither
  • 2000–2002: Roland Kayser
  • 2002–2008: Josef Poscharnig
  • since 2008: DI Markus Mareich

societies

The Austrian Fencing Association itself is organized in the form of a club; in 2010 it had 52 clubs with a total of 1430 members. Most of the clubs are in Carinthia (12), Vienna (10) and Lower Austria (8). The Wiener Landesfechtverband has the most fencers with 302 athletes registered with the ÖFV, while the Steiermärkische Landesfechtclub (StLFC) was the largest fencing club in Austria this year with 163 members. In a medal balance (according to number) of the Austrian championships from 2002-2010, the Styrian state fencing club was ahead of FU Mödling, ASVÖ FV Salzburg, FU Linz and FTS Dornbirn. Most of the titles were won by the athletes from the FU Mödling, who also made the most of the participants in the World and European Championships for all age groups. More and more clubs are starting to concentrate on one of the three weapons, there are only a few clubs in which foil, epee and saber are fought in a competitive manner. The federal performance center in Südstadt is operated by the ÖFV, there is also the state performance center in Styria, as well as a performance center in Salzburg and performance models in Linz, Carinthia and Vorarlberg.

Competitive sport

The ÖFV annually organizes Austrian championships in all age groups and in all weapons ( sword , foil , saber ), both as individual and team competitions for women and men. There is also the Austrian ranking list , for which you get points in certain ranking tournaments, which also include World Cups. The qualification for world and European championships can only be achieved through world and European cups. For the upcoming Olympic Games 2012 in London, the men's floret team, which consists entirely of fencers from the AFC Salzburg, as well as Sandra Kleinberger (foil, KAC) and Jörg Mathe (epee, balmung) are currently in good running.

Austrian tournaments with great international reputation:

  • Salzburg Cadet European Cup, foil (Nov)
  • Mödling, European Cadet Cup, Degen (Nov)
  • Mödling, World Cup Juniors, Foil / Epee (Feb)
  • Klagenfurt, European Cup of Cadets in Epee (Dec)
  • Graz, Messepokal, general class foil (Sep)

successes

Olympic champion

World Champion

European champion

Overall world cup winner

  • 1968: Roland Losert men's sword
  • 1993: Elisabeth Knechtl women's sword
  • 1997: men's foil team
  • 1998: men's foil team
  • 2002: Men's Epee Christoph Marik, Men's Epee Team
  • 2003: Mr Christoph Marik's sword

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History. Steiermärkischer Landesfechtclub, accessed on November 26, 2013 .
  2. ^ The history of the ÖFV. (No longer available online.) Austrian Fencing Association, archived from the original on December 6, 2014 ; Retrieved November 26, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Andreas Schirmer (Ed.), En Garde! Allez! Touchez! 100 years of fencing in Germany - a success story, Meyer & Meyer Verlag, Aachen 2012, p. 22.
  4. ^ Viennese fencing history. Fecht Union Wien, accessed on November 26, 2013 .
  5. ^ History of the Academy of Fencing Art. Academy of Fechtkunst of Austria, accessed on October 30, 2013 .
  6. ^ Association register query , ZVR number 507226010

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