German fencing championships 1932

German fencing championships 1932
date		6-8 May 1932 (individual) 7th – 9th October 1932 (team)
venue		Offenbach (Individual) Berlin (Team)
Host		German Fencing Committee
← 1931		1933 →

At the German Fencing Championships in 1932 , competitions were held in men's florets, men's rapiers and men's sabers, while there was only one competition in foil for women. The individual championships took place from May 6th to 8th in Offenbach , the team championships from October 7th to 9th in Berlin . The championships were organized by the German Fencing Committee, which included representatives of the German Fencing Federation and the Fencing Association of the German Gymnastics Federation. In the men won August Heim (foil), Stefan Rosenbauer (sword) and Henry Moss (saber), in the women Olga Oelkers . The fencing club Hermannia Frankfurt was able to win the team championships in all three weapons, the best individual fencer was Erwin Casmir , who did not compete in the individual.

singles

The individual championships took place from May 6th to 8th in Offenbach in the premises of the Offenbach gymnastics club, on the last day the award ceremony was held in a closing ceremony. 109 fencers and 63 female fencers were registered. Competitions were fought in the disciplines of foil, epee and saber for men and women’s floret. The highest court of arbitration consisted of six members of the German Gymnastics Federation and the German Fencing Federation, including the DFB chairman Heinrich Mayer , the fencing warden of the German gymnastics association Ludwig Staffen and the DFB honorary chairman Jakob Erckrath de Bary .

Men's floret

The competition was held in four rounds. Three (or four) out of six (or seven) fencers were eliminated from the preliminary and intermediate rounds. In the subsequent preliminary rounds, three out of five fencers each qualified for the final round. Five hits were fought. August Heim won with seven wins ahead of Ms. Stark and Hans Gyenis (five wins each).

space	athlete	society
1	August home	Fencing Club Offenbach
2	Ms. Stark	Fencing Club Offenbach
3	Hans Gyenis	Foil Club Munich on TV Jahn

Further placements: 4th Fritz Jacob and Stefan Rosenbauer , 6th Julius Eisenecker , 7th Hans-Georg Jörger , 8th Fritz Schubert, 9th Hans Ohlig

Women's floret

The competition was held in four rounds. Three (or four) out of six (or seven) female fencers were eliminated from the preliminary and intermediate rounds. In the subsequent preliminary rounds, three out of six female fencers qualified for the final round. Five hits were fought. The Olympic champion Helene Mayer could not take part because of an illness. Last year's winner Tilly Merz and Erna Sondheim also did not compete, probably because of the strain caused by the International Fencing Championships in 1932 that had recently taken place . It won Olga Oelkers with eight victories before Hedwig hatred (six wins) and Leni Oslob (five wins).

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1	Olga Oelkers	Fencing Club Offenbach
2	Hedwig hatred	TV Offenbach
3	Leni Oslob	TSV 1867 Leipzig

Further placements: 4th Rotraud von Wachter , 5th Henni Jüngst, 6th Mina Freudenberger, 7th Trude Jacob, 8th Lotte Leonhard, 9th Gretel Bihlmaier

Men's sword

The competition was held in five rounds. Three (or four) out of six (or seven) fencers were eliminated from the preliminary and the two intermediate rounds. In the subsequent preliminary rounds, a total of nine out of 12 fencers qualified for the final round. The fought in the preliminary and intermediate rounds was on one hit, then on two hits. It was won by Stefan Rosenbauer with seven wins ahead of Josef Uhlmann (six wins) and Konrad Miersch from the Spandau Police School (five wins).

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1	Stefan Rosenbauer	Hermannia Frankfurt
2	Josef Uhlmann	TV Ulm
3	Konrad Miersch	Police School Spandau

Further placements: 4th Fr. Stark 5th Schroeder, 6th Heinrich Moos , 7th Wagner, 8th B. Eggert, 9th Kurt Kronenberg

Gentleman's saber

The competition was held in four rounds. Three (or four) out of six (or seven) fencers were eliminated from the preliminary and intermediate rounds. In the subsequent preliminary rounds, three out of five or six fencers qualified for the final round. Five hits were fought. Heinrich Moos won with eight wins ahead of August Heim (seven wins) and Richard Wahl (six wins).

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1	Heinrich Moos	BK Berlin
2	August home	TV Offenbach
3	Richard Wahl	TV 1860 Frankfurt

Other placements: 4th Fritz Schubert, 5th Stefan Rosenbauer, 6th B. Eggert, 7th Eugen Mayer, 8th Kurt Kronenberg, 9th Wilhelm Löffler

team

The team championships took place from October 7th to 9th in the tennis halls on Brandenburgische Strasse in Berlin. Teams from the German Fencing Federation and the German Gymnastics Federation took part. The teams consisted of four fencers with one or two substitute fencers. Competitions were held in men's epee, men's saber and men's floret. A planned women's competition had to be canceled because only one team had registered.

In the round system, each team fought against all other teams. A team fight consisted of sixteen individual bouts. Each individual battle was fought on five hits in the foil and saber, and on two hits in the epee. The team with the higher number of wins won the battle. In the event of a tie, the team with fewer hits won; if these were also identical, the team match was counted as a draw. A tie was worth one point, a win two points. The Supreme Arbitration Court consisted of the President of the DFB Heinrich Mayer , the fencing warden of the German Gymnastics Federation Ludwig Staffen , as well as one further representative from each of the two associations.

Men's floret

Seven teams competed in the men's floret. Hermannia Frankfurt won it ahead of TV 1860 Frankfurt and TK Hannover. The best individual fencers were Erwin Casmir from Hermannia Frankfurt (24 wins, 31 hits received), Fritz Jacob from TV 1860 Frankfurt (21 wins, 55 hits received) and Rosenbauer from Hermannia Frankfurt (21 wins, 61 hits received).

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1	Hermannia Frankfurt	Erwin Casmir Stefan Rosenbauer Julius Eisenecker Hans-Georg Jörger Franz August Müller
2	TV 1860 Frankfurt	Karl Büdinger Fritz Jacob Wilhelm Löffler Fritz Martin Richard Wahl
3	TK Hanover	Heinrich Raupach Walter Hoffmeister Helmut Wollermann Rudolf Berger

Further placements: 4th DFC Hannover, 5th DFC Düsseldorf, 6th TV Guts Muth Berlin, 7th Berlin fencing club

Men's sword

Seven teams competed in the men's sword. Hermannia Frankfurt won it ahead of the Berlin Police Sports Club and the Hanover DFC. The best individual fencers were Rosenbauer (23 wins, 13 hits received) and Casimir (20 wins, 10 hits received) from Hermannia Frankfurt and Lerdon from the Berlin Police Sports Club (18 wins, 18 hits received).

space	society	athlete
1	Hermannia Frankfurt	Erwin Casmir Julius Eisenecker Hans-Georg Jörger Stefan Rosenbauer Franz August Müller
2	Police Sports Club Berlin	Siegfried Lerdon Konrad Miersch Brockmann Remer Rosenfeld Schroeter
3	DFC Hanover	Schinn Dr. Meyring Paul Hirschring Hans Kranefuß Schwertfeger Fränkel

Further placements: 4th TV 1860 Frankfurt, 5th Berlin Gymnastics Association, 6th Fechtclub Drednder Bank Berlin, 7th German Fecht-Klub Halle a. S.

Gentleman's saber

Five teams competed in the men's saber. Hermannia Frankfurt won in front of TV 1860 Frankfurt and the team from Deutsche Bank Berlin. The best individual fencers were Erwin Casmir from Hermannia Frankfurt (15 wins, 25 hits received), Heinrich Moos from Deutsche Bank Berlin (13 wins, 41 hits received) and Fritz Schubert from TSV 1867 Leipzig (13 wins, 44 hits received).

space	society	athlete
1	Hermannia Frankfurt	Erwin Casmir Julius Eisenecker Hans-Georg Jörger Stefan Rosenbauer Franz August Müller
2	TV 1860 Frankfurt	Karl Büdinger Fritz Jacob Wilhelm Löffler Fritz Martin Richard Wahl
3	Deutsche Bank Berlin	Alfred Bär Curt Knoch Heinrich Moos Ludwig Weinacht Franz Ehling Osterndorff

Further placements: 4th TSV 1867 Leipzig, 5th DFC Düsseldorf

Web links

• Fencing - German championships at Sport Complete

Individual evidence

1. ^ Max Schröder: Deutsche Fechtkunst , Georg Koenig Buchdruckerei and Verlag, Berlin 1938, pp. 60f.
2. ↑ Results according to the tables in the German Fencing Association (Ed.), Andreas Schirmer (Red): En Garde! Allez! Touchez! 100 Years of Fencing in Germany - A Success Story , Meyer & Meyer Verlag, Aachen 2012. Page 218ff and after Max Schröder: Deutsche Fechtkunst , Georg Koenig Buchdruckerei und Verlag, Berlin 1938, pp. 49–66.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Hellmuth Lange: The German Fencing Championships in Offenbach from May 6th to 8th, 1932 . In: Fechter-Zeitung Volume 31 No. 10, May 1931, p. 113ff.
4. ↑ List of Competitors and List of Competitors . In: Fechter-Zeitung Volume 31 No. 8/9, May 1931, p. 90ff.
5. ^ Supreme Court of Arbitration . In: Fechter-Zeitung Volume 31 No. 8/9, May 1931, p. 93.
6. ^ German fencing committee . In: Fechter-Zeitung Volume 31 No. 16, August 1932, p. 197f.
7. ↑ German team championship fights in Berlin from 7th to 9th October 1932. In: Fechter-Zeitung Volume 31 No. 17/18, September 1932, pp. 209ff.
8. ↑ German Championships in Team Fencing 1932. In: Fechter-Zeitung Volume 31 No. 19, October 1932, p. 114ff.
9. ^ ^{A b c} German team championship fights in Berlin on October 7th - 9th, 1932. In: Fechter-Zeitung, year 1932, No. 20, October 1932, pp. 133ff.
10. ^ According to Max Schröder : Deutsche Fechtkunst , Georg Koenig Buchdruckerei und Verlag, Berlin 1938, pp. 60f. a fencer named Spinzig was part of the team
11. ^ According to Max Schröder : Deutsche Fechtkunst , Georg Koenig Buchdruckerei und Verlag, Berlin 1938, pp. 60f. were from Bauer and Willy Fascher instead of Dr. Meyring and Schinn are part of the team