Emil Schön

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Emil Schön
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gold 1906 Athens Saber team

Emil Schön (born August 4, 1872 , † January 29, 1945 ) was a German fencer. He first fought in Wiesbaden, later at the fencing club Hermannia Frankfurt . At the Olympic Intermediate Games in 1906 he won a gold medal with the saber team, he was also successful in two German championships and numerous other national and international competitions.

successes

At the German gymnastics festival in Breslau in 1894, Schön won the competition in bat fencing. For the first time in 1899 he won the championships of the Gauverband Mittelrheinischer fencing club , a forerunner of the German championships, with the saber and the foil in a fixed scale . Eleven further titles followed in various disciplines by 1922 (loose-length foil, saber, heavy saber and epee). In various disciplines he also won international tournaments in Baden-Baden (Degen, 1909), Frankfurt (Foil, 1910), Dresden (Degen, 1911) and the Baltic Games in 1914 in Malmö (Saber).

At the German championships in 1913 , Schön finished second with the saber. In 1914 he won the championship with the epee and the runner-up with the foil. At the first German championship after the First World War, he won the foil title in 1920 . In 1921 and 1922 he was again runner-up in foil fencing, in 1925 again with the saber. His club, FC Hermannia Frankfurt, won numerous championship titles in all weapons before the Second World War and was the most successful fencing club in Germany. However, the exact line-up of the championship teams is not known.

In 1905 Schön fought for the first time in an international team competition as a member of the German national team in an international match in Ghent. Further missions followed in 1910 in Frankfurt and at the Baltic Games in Malmö in 1914. At the Olympic Intermediate Games in Athens in 1906 , he competed in all three disciplines and won the gold medal with the team in saber fencing. He also achieved fourth and fifth place in the epee and saber singles. In the epee and saber singles, he also appeared two years later at the regular Olympic Games in London , but could no longer fight for success. Four years later at the Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912 he competed again in all branches of the armed forces, but was again without a medal.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Schröder: Deutsche Fechtkunst , Georg Koenig Buchdruckerei and Verlag, Berlin 1938, pp. 79–83.
  2. ^ Max Schröder: Deutsche Fechtkunst , Georg Koenig Buchdruckerei and Verlag, Berlin 1938, pp. 84–91.
  3. ^ Max Schröder: Deutsche Fechtkunst , Georg Koenig Buchdruckerei and Verlag, Berlin 1938, pp. 125–129 and 151–162.
  4. ^ Max Schröder: Deutsche Fechtkunst , Georg Koenig Buchdruckerei and Verlag, Berlin 1938, pp. 49-66.
  5. ^ Max Schröder: Deutsche Fechtkunst , Georg Koenig Buchdruckerei and Verlag, Berlin 1938, pp. 138–156.
  6. ^ Emil Schön in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ).
personal data
SURNAME Nice, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fencer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1872
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1945