Eugen Geiwitz

Eugen Geiwitz (born December 14, 1901 , † May 1984 in Kippingen , North Rhine-Westphalia ) was a German fencer , German champion , Olympic participant and bronze medalist at the 1935 World Championships. He fought for TV Ulm, which later became part of SSV Ulm in 1846 .

Athletic career and successes

According to Geiwitz, he began fencing in 1917 with the heavy saber and won the Württemberg championships at his first tournament. Soon he switched to TV Neu-Ulm and learned fencing with modern Olympic sporting weapons. He then fought at TV Ulm. There he also exercised the post of fencing warden and was involved in community and youth work.

Between 1927 and 1939 Geiwitz won a total of 28 Württemberg individual and team championships. He was particularly successful with the sword, but also a member of the national foil team at the European Championships in Warsaw. In 1933 he won the German Gymnastics Festival . He was allowed to start there, because the Württemberg fencers were not organized in the German Fencing Federation , but with the gymnasts .

In 1933 and 1934 he was German single champion in epee fencing. Geiwitz became a member of the SS as early as 1933 . After the establishment of the Ulm section of the SS sports association, he officially started tournaments for the SS, to which numerous successful fencers belonged at the instigation of the active saber fencer and head of the Reich Security Main Office, Reinhard Heydrich . At the international championships, the forerunner of today's world championships , he won the bronze medal behind France and Sweden together with Heinz Heigl , Siegfried Lerdon and Stefan Rosenbauer as a team in 1935 . At the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Geiwitz took part with the sword team (together with Josef Uhlmann , Siegfried Lerdon, Hans Esser , Ernst Röthig and Otto Schröder ). They advanced to the final round, but had to admit defeat to the teams of Italy, Sweden and France and took fourth place.

After the Second World War , the team from TV Ulm became German runner-up with him again in 1953 .

Fencing

August Heim did not describe Geiwitz as a “foil fencer in the deeper meaning of the word”, but as a sword specialist who, thanks to his good physical condition, can also be successful with foil and saber. By nature, he is more of a defender than an attacker. To improve, he advised him to train the eye to grasp the situation, use parades more often, and develop a better sense of pace action .

Web links

• Eugen Geiwitz in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Our competitors and masters tell . Eugen Geiwitz 'report on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Deutsche Fechter-Zeitung. In: Fechter-Zeitung year 1934 No. 3/4, February 1934, p. 45f.
2. ↑ ^{a b} From the history of the fencing department. SSV Ulm, fencing department, accessed on October 18, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Review of the centenary celebration of the WFB on July 9th, 2011. (No longer available online.) Württembergischer Fechterbund, formerly in the original ; Retrieved October 18, 2014 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
4. ^ Berno Bahro (2011): The SS Sport. Organization - function - meaning , Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2013, p. 216.
5. ↑ Fencing - World Championships (men - epee). sport-komplett.de, accessed on October 18, 2014 . 
6. ↑ Eugen Geiwitz in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
7. ↑ August Heim : The European Championships in Warscha (findings from the work of the German team) . In: Fechter-Zeitung year 1934 No. 8/9, May 1935, p. 57ff.