German fencing championships 1938

German fencing championships 1938
date		21.-24. April 1938 (individual) 27.-30. October 1938 (team)
venue		Hanover (individual) Leipzig (team)
Host		German Fencing Association
← 1937		1939 →

The German fencing championships in 1938 were held in the disciplines of men's floret, men's epee and men's saber. The women only competed in foil. The individual championships were organized by the fencing department and took place from April 21st to 24th in Hanover , on the evening of April 20th there was already a meeting of the judges. A total of 301 fencers were registered. The team championships were held in Leipzig from October 27th to 30th, 1938.

Men's

Foil (single)

84 fencers were registered in the men's foil singles. The competitions took place on Friday April 22nd. The winner was the Viennese Roman Fischer with ten wins in the final round . Josef Losert (Vienna) was second with nine wins, August Heim (TV Offenbach) third with eight wins.

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1	Roman Fischer	SG SS Vienna
2	Josef Losert	SG SS Vienna
3	August home	TV Offenbach

Further placements: 4th Julius Eisenecker 5th Siegfried Lerdon , 6th A. Naumann, 7th Loisl, 8th E. May, 9th Richard Liebscher , 10th W. Fischer, 11th Rudolf Losert , 12th Jaromir Bergan

Foil (team)

11 teams were entered in the men's floret team competition. Hermannia Frankfurt won in the final round in front of the sports community of the SS Berlin, the fencing club Wiesbaden and the TV 1848 Saarbrücken.

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1	Hermannia Frankfurt	Albert Bauer Fritz Becker Erwin Casmir Julius Eisenecker Siegfried Lerdon Stefan Rosenbauer
2	SG SS Berlin	Otto Körner Richard Liebscher Hermann Hainke Baumann Wendtland Josef Losert
2	Fencing Club Wiesbaden	Otto Adam Willi Cron Erich Klöckner Georg Metzger Georg Wettengel

Further placements: 4th TV 1848 Saarbrücken

Sword (single)

79 fencers were registered in the epee singles. The competitions took place on Saturday, April 23rd. Siegfried Lerdon from the fencing club Hermannia Frankfurt prevailed with 9 wins ahead of Kretschmann (8 wins) and Erwin Kroggel (7 wins), who both fought for the sports community of the SS Berlin.

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1	Siegfried Lerdon	Hermannia Frankfurt
2	Kretschmann	SG SS Berlin
3	Erwin Kroggel	SG SS Berlin

Further placements: 4th Karl-Heinz Miersch 5th Jacobi, 6th Josef Uhlmann , 7th Erwin Hildebrandt , 8th Adolf Jewarowski , 9th Hermann Hainke, 10th Eugen Schöne, 11th Kaldschmidt, 12th Hans Knieß

Sword (team)

12 teams were registered for the Degen team competition. The team of the fencing club Hermannia Frankfurt won ahead of the sports community of the SS Berlin, the team of the Wehrmacht and the sports community SS Stuttgart.

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1	Hermannia Frankfurt	Clemens Brendel Erwin Casmir Adolf Jewarowski Hans Krebs Siegfried Lerdon Stefan Rosenbauer
2	SG SS Berlin	Konrad Miersch Otto Schröder A. Kretschmann Erwin Kroggel Erwin Hildebrandt Rhinow
2	Wehrmacht

Further placements: 4th SG SS Stuttgart

Saber (single)

In the saber singles 81 fencers were registered. The preliminary rounds took place on Saturday, April 23rd, the final round on Sunday. With 11 wins in the final round, last year's winner August Heim won ahead of Hans Esser (Düsseldorf, 9 wins) and Josef Losert (Vienna, 8 wins).

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1	August home	Fencing Club Offenbach
2	Hans Esser	DFC Düsseldorf
3	Josef Losert	SG SS Vienna

Further placements: 4th Otto Körner, 5th Julius Eisenecker , 6th Richard Liebscher , 7th Limpert, 8th Paul Hirschring, 9th Richard Wahl , 10th Reinhard Heydrich , 11th Otto Adam (fencer) , 12th Werner Graichen

Saber (crew)

12 teams were registered for the saber team competition. Hermannia Frankfurt won in the final round, and the SS Berlin sports community came second. In addition, the fencing club Düsseldorf and a team from SA Berlin took part in the final round.

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1	Hermannia Frankfurt	Erwin Casmir Julius Eisenecker Adolf Jewarowski Hans-Georg Jörger Ernst Koerbitz Stefan Rosenbauer
2	SG SS Berlin	Reinhard Heydrich Plath Körner Richard Liebscher Hermann Hainke Josef Losert

Ladies

Foil (single)

In the women's foil singles, 57 female fencers were registered. The competitions took place on Thursday April 21st. Hedwig Haß was able to prevail in a playoff against Friederike Wenisch. Both had 8 wins in the final round. Trude Jacob was third with 6 wins

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1	Hedwig hatred	Fencing Club Offenbach
2	Friederike Wenisch	Balmung Vienna
3	Trude Jacob	TV Offenbach

Further placements: 4th Rotraud von Wachter, 5th Leni Oslob , 6th Lilo Deutzer , 7th B. Schöne, 8th E. Bock, 9th Gisela Krausgrill , 10th E. Lindau

Foil (team)

14 teams were entered in the women's floret team competition. The TV Offenbach prevailed in the final round against the fencing club Offenbach , the Cologne fencing club and the TSV 1867 Leipzig.

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1	TV Offenbach	Lilo Deutzer Erna Gazzera Gisela Krausgrill Marlise Nikolai Marga Schäfer Gertrud Weise

Web links

• Fencing - German championships at Sport Complete

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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. From the second places: Individual: The first large German championships , in: Deutsche-Fechter-Zeitung No. 9/10, year 1938, May 1938, p. 106ff. Team: Preliminary round division of the German club championships in Leipzig , in: Deutsche-Fechter-Zeitung No. 19/20, year 1938, October 1938, p. 222ff and jubilee "Hermannia" again three times champion , in: Deutsche-Fechter- Newspaper No. 21/22, year 1938, November 1938, p. 241ff.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} German Championships from April 21 to 24 in Hanover , in: Deutsche-Fechter-Zeitung No. 8, year 1938, April 1938, p. 89ff
3. ↑ Leipzig, the versatile city , in: Deutsche-Fechter-Zeitung No. 19/20, year 1938, October 1938, p. 218ff.
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} preliminary round division of the German club championships in Leipzig , in: Deutsche-Fechter-Zeitung No. 19/20, year 1938, October 1938, p. 222ff.
5. ↑ ^{a b c d} Anniversary “Hermannia” again three times master , in: Deutsche-Fechter-Zeitung No. 21/22, year 1938, November 1938, p. 241ff.