Erwin Kroggel

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Erwin "Mucki" Kroggel (born April 30, 1912 in Berlin , † January 1996 in Hanover ) was a German epee fencer and pentathlete . He was a multiple German champion and Olympic participant. First he fought for the SG Berlin, after the Second World War for the fencing club Hermannia Frankfurt , later for the gymnastics club in Hanover .

Life

Kroggel was born in Berlin and became a police officer after graduating from middle school. In addition, he was an athlete and handball player, from 1934 modern pentathlon and later fencer. Kroggel had been married since 1937, and his son was born in 1940. In 1941 he won his first German fencing championships, which were followed by four more. During the time of National Socialism , the active saber fencer and head of the Reich Security Main Office, Reinhard Heydrich, tried to recruit the best German fencers for the SS . At that time, Kroggel was also working in Amt IV of the Reich Security Main Office (fighting opponents - Gestapo) and was Hauptsturmführer of the SS.

After surviving the war unharmed, Kroggel took part in the Olympic Games in 1952 , and before that he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf in 1951 as a member of the Hermannia Frankfurt team. In 1960 he received the award again as a "multiple master in epee fencing". After the war he worked as a bank clerk in Hanover, but remained an active fencer. After the introduction of the German senior championships, he was one of the first medalists. Kroggel died in Hanover in January 1996.

successes

In 1940 Kroggel took third place at the German championships in men's epee, in 1941 he won it for the first time and repeated this success in 1943 . He also won the first two championships after the Second World War in 1951 and 1952 (at that time he was already fighting for Hermannia Frankfurt) as well as those of 1954 (as a member of the Turn-Klubb in Hanover). In 1955 he was second again. In 1951 Hermannia Frankfurt also won the men's epee team championship, but the exact team line-up is not known.

At the Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952 , Kroggel took part in the individual competition of the men's epee, but retired as the penultimate of his round already in the first round.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volker Kluge and Donald Macgregor (transl.) (2011): A “New Woman” and her Involuntary Myth * - One hundred years ago the German fencer Helene Mayer was born , Journal of Olympic History 19, No. 3, p. 30 -38.
  2. ↑ Sports report of the Federal Government, p. 57f. (PDF; 1.8 MB) German Bundestag, September 26, 1973, accessed on October 30, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Erwin Kroggel in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  4. ↑ Laki Dobridis: Seniors? - Sure, of course! , 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. 186–189, here p. 186.
  5. ↑ Erwin Kroggel died , Reutlinger General-Anzeiger, January 5, 1996 Online (pdf, 12.8 MB) ( Memento of October 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ).
  6. ↑ Tables 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. Page 218ff.
  7. ↑ Erwin Kroggel in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
personal data
SURNAME Kroggel, Erwin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kroggel, Mucki (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fencer, multiple German champion and Olympic participant
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 1996
Place of death Hanover