August Petri

Karl August Petri (* 1878 , † after 1928) was a German fencer , Olympic participant and from 1926 to 1928 President of the German Fencing Association . He fought at the fencing club Offenbach .

Successes as a fencer

Athens, interludes 1906

Petri was a student of the Italian fencing master Arturo Gazerra, who had been employed in Offenbach since 1899. In 1913 he was third at the German championships in epee fencing, at the German championships from 1914 to 1922 he advanced several times to the final round with foil or epee. In 1904 he won a national tournament in Hamburg with the foil, in the saber he came second. In 1907 he was second in the senior class with the foil at the German fencing tournament in Dresden, in 1914 he won a national tournament in Stuttgart (third place in the foil), and in 1920 he was second at a sword tournament in Munich.

In 1909 he won an international tournament in Baden-Baden with the sword. Before the First World War he took part in numerous other international tournaments and was part of the German national team in several international matches.

At the Olympic Intermediate Games in Athens in 1906 , Petri won the team saber competition together with his Offenbach teammate Jakob Erckrath de Bary as well as Gustav Casmir and Emil Schön . This was the first international medal for German fencing. With the epee team, he finished fifth, in the individual competitions he was eliminated in the preliminary round.

At the Olympic Games in 1908 , the team, now with Petri, de Bary, Robert Krünert and Fritz Jack , could not defend the title, with both the sword and saber team it was only enough for a shared 5th place. Even in the individual, Petri did not get beyond the preliminary round.

With the team of FC Offenbach Petri was team champion in epee fencing at the German championships in 1921 .

Career as a functionary

Petri was one of the eleven fencers who founded the German Fencing Association on December 17, 1911 in the Frankfurter Hof hotel. Subsequently, he was a member of the committee for drawing up statutes for the newly founded association. In the first federal assembly on February 25, 1912 he was elected as secretary to the board. In 1926, Petri de Bary succeeded him in the office of President of the DFB. De Bary was also elected honorary president. Petri resigned from his office for private reasons as early as 1928. Heinrich Mayer was his successor .

Web links

August Petri in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

↑ James Edward Sullivan, The Olympic games at Athens, 1906 (1906)
^ Max Schröder: Deutsche Fechtkunst , Georg Koenig Buchdruckerei and Verlag, Berlin 1938, pp. 49-66.
^ Max Schröder: Deutsche Fechtkunst , Georg Koenig Buchdruckerei and Verlag, Berlin 1938, pp. 111-122.
^ Max Schröder: Deutsche Fechtkunst , Georg Koenig Buchdruckerei and Verlag, Berlin 1938, pp. 125–129 and 138–156.
↑ ^a ^b August Petri in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
^ FC Offenbach, successes. FC Offenbach, accessed on March 21, 2015 .
↑ Erika Dienstl, laudation of the German Fencing Association. (PDF; 26.8 kB) (No longer available online.) December 17, 2011, archived from the original on September 23, 2015 ; accessed on August 22, 2014 .
^ Andreas Schirmer: The foundation of the DFB in 1911 . In: Deutscher Fechter-Bund (Ed.), Andreas Schirmer (Red): En Garde! Allez! Touchez! 100 Years of Fencing in Germany - A Success Story , Meyer & Meyer Verlag, Aachen 2012. pp. 26–29, here: pp. 28f.
↑ Andreas Schirmer: The turning point of an era: The 1st World War . In: Deutscher Fechter-Bund (Ed.), Andreas Schirmer (Red): En Garde! Allez! Touchez! 100 years of fencing in Germany - a success story , Meyer & Meyer Verlag, Aachen 2012. pp. 34–43, here: p. 36.

personal data
SURNAME	Petri, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Petri, Karl August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German fencer and DFB president
DATE OF BIRTH	1878
DATE OF DEATH	20th century

[1] James Edward Sullivan, The Olympic games at Athens, 1906 (1906)

[2] Max Schröder: Deutsche Fechtkunst , Georg Koenig Buchdruckerei and Verlag, Berlin 1938, pp. 49-66.

[3] Max Schröder: Deutsche Fechtkunst , Georg Koenig Buchdruckerei and Verlag, Berlin 1938, pp. 111-122.

[4] Max Schröder: Deutsche Fechtkunst , Georg Koenig Buchdruckerei and Verlag, Berlin 1938, pp. 125–129 and 138–156.

[sr-5] August Petri in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

[6] FC Offenbach, successes. FC Offenbach, accessed on March 21, 2015 .

[7] Erika Dienstl, laudation of the German Fencing Association. (PDF; 26.8 kB) (No longer available online.) December 17, 2011, archived from the original on September 23, 2015 ; accessed on August 22, 2014 .

[8] Andreas Schirmer: The foundation of the DFB in 1911 . In: Deutscher Fechter-Bund (Ed.), Andreas Schirmer (Red): En Garde! Allez! Touchez! 100 Years of Fencing in Germany - A Success Story , Meyer & Meyer Verlag, Aachen 2012. pp. 26–29, here: pp. 28f.

[9] Andreas Schirmer: The turning point of an era: The 1st World War . In: Deutscher Fechter-Bund (Ed.), Andreas Schirmer (Red): En Garde! Allez! Touchez! 100 years of fencing in Germany - a success story , Meyer & Meyer Verlag, Aachen 2012. pp. 34–43, here: p. 36.