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Albert Bogen , Hungarian Albert Bógathy (born April 8, 1882 in Kikinda , † July 14, 1961 in Budapest ) was a fencer who competed for both Austria and Hungary at the Olympic Games.

Life

Albert Bogen took part in the Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912, with the Austrian team of saber fencers he reached the final against the Hungarians, which the Austrians lost 11-5. Albert Bogen, Rudolf Cvetko , Friedrich Golling , Otto Herschmann , Andreas Suttner , Reinhold Trampler and Richard Verderber won the silver medal. In the individual competition, Bogen was eliminated in the second round.

Albert Bogen was an officer in the k. u. k. -Army. After the First World War, Bogen took on Hungarian citizenship and later changed his name to Bógathy. At the Olympic Games in Amsterdam in 1928 he was a member of the Hungarian sword fencing team, which was eliminated in the preliminary round against the United States and Egypt.

Albert Bogen, along with the Norwegian sailor Eugen Lunde and the German hockey player Erwin Keller, is one of the few Olympic medalists whose children and grandchildren were also medalists. The daughter Erna Bogen , born in 1906, won bronze with the foil in 1932. In 1938 she married Aladár Gerevich , who with seven Olympic gold medals at the Olympic Games from 1932 to 1960 was the most successful Olympic fencer ever. Both son Pál Gerevich won bronze with a saber in 1972 and 1980.

literature

Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 .

Web links

Albert Bogen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

↑ Erich Kamper , Herbert Soucek: Olympic Heroes. Portraits and anecdotes from 1896 to today. Spiridon-Verlag, Erkrath 1991, ISBN 3-922011-20-9 , p. 39.

personal data
SURNAME	Bogen, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bógathy, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austro-Hungarian fencer
DATE OF BIRTH	April 8, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kikinda
DATE OF DEATH	July 14, 1961
Place of death	Budapest

[1] Erich Kamper , Herbert Soucek: Olympic Heroes. Portraits and anecdotes from 1896 to today. Spiridon-Verlag, Erkrath 1991, ISBN 3-922011-20-9 , p. 39.