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August Heim (born March 13, 1904 in Offenbach am Main , † May 8, 1976 ibid) was a German fencer who became German champion and won two Olympic bronze medals in 1936.
Life
The fencer from the Offenbach fencing club was initially successful with the foil, later he often competed both in the competitions with the foil and in those with the saber. At the Olympic Games in Amsterdam in 1928 he was part of the foil team and was eliminated in the preliminary round. In 1930 Heim won his first German championship title with the foil, in 1932 and 1937 two more titles followed; In 1933 , 1934 , 1935 and 1938 he was German champion with the saber.
In 1931, the German men's team won the bronze medal in saber fencing at the unofficial world fencing championship with Erwin Casmir , Julius Eisenecker , August Heim and Heinrich Moos . In 1935 Julius Eisenecker, Hans Esser , August Heim, Heinrich Moos and Richard Wahl repeated this success. At the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin , the German saber team with Erwin Casmir, Julius Eisenecker, Hans Esser, August Heim, Hans-Georg Jörger and Richard Wahl won the bronze medal. The German foil team with Otto Adam , Erwin Casmir, Julius Eisenecker, August Heim, Siegfried Lerdon and Stefan Rosenbauer also won bronze . In 1937 the first official world fencing championship took place; the German saber team with Erwin Casmir, Julius Eisenecker, Hans Esser, August Heim, Heinrich Moos and Richard Wahl again received the bronze medal.
After the Second World War , Heim worked as a coach at Offenbacher FC and, among other things, was the first coach of the later team Olympic champion and multiple world champion Cornelia Hanisch .
Web links
- August Heim in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- Fencing World Championships
- German fencing championships
Individual evidence
- ↑ [1] , sports-reference.com, accessed July 8, 2019
- ↑ Klaus Dieter Güse, Andreas Schirmer: Fascination Fencing: From the miraculous rise of a sport in Germany. Limpert Verlag, Bad Homburg 1986, p. 50.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Home, August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German fencer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Offenbach am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 8, 1976 |
| Place of death | Offenbach am Main |