Fencing Club Offenbach

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FC Offenbach
FC Offenbach.png
Surname Fencing Club Offenbach from 1863 e. V.
Founded 1863
Place of foundation Offenbach am Main
Association headquarters August-Heim-Halle
Senefelderstrasse 265
63069 Offenbach am Main
Members about 180 (2009)
Chairperson Gudrun Bayer
Homepage http://www.fcoffenbach.de/

The fencing club Offenbach from 1863 e. V. (also abbreviated to FC Offenbach or FCO ) is a Hessian fencing club based in the August-Heim-Halle on Senefelderstrasse in Offenbach am Main . FC Offenbach is the second oldest fencing club in Germany after FC Hannover .

history

The club was founded in 1863 by a group of young men around the military fencing master Karl A. Trub and was the second fencing club in Germany after FC Hannover, which was founded a year earlier. When it was founded, the fixed scale was still fought until the Italian fencing school found its way into Germany and the movable scale made the battles appear much more dynamic.

Jakob Erckrath de Bary was the first chairman of FC Offenbach from 1893 to 1921 and co-founder of the German Fencing Federation in 1911 and president until 1925. In 1913, de-Bary was also one of the godparents of the International Fechtverband FIE ( Fédération Internationale d'Escrime ). In 1899 de-Bary brought the Italian fencing master Arturo Gazzera to Offenbach, who from then on directed the sporting fortunes of the club.

In 1906, the German saber team of the two Gazerra students from Offenbach, de-Bary and August Petri, won the world championship at the intermediate Olympics in Athens and thus won the first gold medal for Germany in fencing. In 1913, Julius Lichtenfels from Offenbach won the first German championship with the foil and in 1914 with the saber.

The fencing business was interrupted due to the First World War, after which Gazerra trained the fencer Helene Mayer . Mayer won her first German championship in 1924 at the age of 15. In 1928, at the age of 18, Mayer became Olympic champion in Amsterdam, followed by two silver medals in 1932 and 1936 in Berlin. At this point, however, Mayer had already been excluded from the fencing club as a half-Jewish woman. In 1937 Helene Mayer became the first female fencer to win the world title. In 1926 Liesel Hartmann became the first German female sword champion.

After the Second World War , fencing was banned until 1949. August Heim , himself multiple German champion, was the new fencing master in Offenbach and trained among others Helmi Höhle, who took part in the 1960 Olympics in Rome, and Dieter Schmidt, who won the bronze medal in Rome. In 1968 Helga Koch from Offenbach was appointed to the Olympic team.

Cornelia Hanisch became world champion in foil fencing in 1979, 1981 and 1985 and won Olympic gold with the team and silver in the individual in Los Angeles in 1984. Between 1976 and 1982 the overall World Cup winner was five times German champion. Her coach at that time was Horst-Christian Tell, who was hired in 1971 by the then President Hans Hubert from Katowice, Poland, to Offenbach. In 1982, the former Romanian national coach Stefan Haukler was signed. The fencing club Offenbach established its fencing center (August-Heim-Halle) in 1982 under the leadership of the then President Hans Hubert. To this day the FC Offenbach is the Hessian center for fencing.

In 1990, Haukler's student Miklos Bodoczi, also from Romania, came to Offenbach as the second coach. Both coaches helped FC Offenbach to achieve further success, as fencers Eva-Maria Ittner, Katja Nass, Kristina Ophardt and Marijana Marković were able to book several world championships and overall world cup victories for themselves and the club. During this time, the German national sword team was often only recruited from Offenbach women sword fencers.

In 2003 Bodoczi took over the position of head coach from Stefan Haukler after he had retired. Bodoczi is the club's head coach to this day (as of June 2016). In 2006 an international partnership was concluded with the Chinese fencing club "Run Dong" in Qingdao . In 2014 Nikolaus Bodoczi, son of head coach Bodoczi, became German master in men's epee. This was the first championship title in this discipline since Hans Halberstadt's success in 1922.

In the 2014/2015 season, after a long time with Nadine Stahlberg and Nikolaus Bodoczi, Offenbach fencers are again represented in the women's and men's national epee teams.

At the fencing world championships 2017 in Leipzig, Richard Schmidt from Tauberbischofsheim, who fights for FC Offenbach and started the competition as number 135 in the world rankings, surprisingly won the bronze medal.

Wheelchair fencing

The fencing club has been offering wheelchair fencing since 2002 . In 2005, the club was awarded the Big Bronze Star for its commitment in this area .

In 2009 the club hosted the German Championships in wheelchair fencing.

Sporting successes

Olympic Games (medal ranks)

Special stamp in honor of Helene Mayer, 1968
  • 1906 Athens :
    • Jacob Erckrath-de Bary, Olympic champion saber team
    • August Petri, Olympic champion saber team
  • 1928 Amsterdam :
    • Helene Mayer, Olympic Champion DFL individual
    • Olga Oelker's bronze medal DFL individual
  • 1936 Berlin
    • Helene Mayer, silver medal DFL individual
    • August Heim, bronze medal HFL team
    • Bronze medal saber team
  • 1960 Rome
    • Dieter Schmitt, bronze medal HFL team
  • 1984 Los Angeles
    • Cornelia Hanisch, Olympic champion DFL team, silver medal DFL individual
    • Christiane Weber Olympic champion DFL team
  • 1988 Seoul
    • Christiane Weber Olympic champion DFL team
  • 1992 Barcelona
    • Christiane Weber 2nd place DFL team

World Cup / World Champion / European Champion (selection)

  • 1929: Helene Mayer (European Champion)
  • 1931: Helene Mayer (European Champion)
  • 1936: H. Haß, H. Jüngst, O. Oelkers (European Champion DFL team)
  • 1937: Helene Mayer (world champion)
  • 1937: Helene Mayer (Vice World Champion DFL team)
  • 1977: Cornelia Hanisch (Vice World Champion DFL team)
  • 1978: Cornelia Hanisch (bronze medal DFL team)
  • 1979: Cornelia Hanisch (World Champion DFL singles)
  • 1981: Cornelia Hanisch (DFL single world champion, DFL team runner-up)
  • 1982: Cornelia Hanisch (World Cup winner)
  • 1983: Cornelia Hanisch (Vice World Champion DFL Team, European Champion DFL Singles)
  • 1985: Hanisch, Weber, Preussker, Ittner, Koksch (2nd place European Cup of the national champions)
  • 1988: Eva Maria Ittner (World Champion DDE team)
  • 1989: Eva Maria Ittner (overall World Cup winner)
  • 1990: Eva Maria Ittner (World Champion DDE team)
  • 1991: Eva Maria Ittner (Vice World Champion DDE singles)
  • 1992: Ittner, Naß, D. Ophardt (Vice World Champion DDE team)
  • 1993: Ittner, Naß (Vice World Champion DDE team)
  • 1994: Katja Naß (overall World Cup winner)
  • 1997: Ittner, Naß (Vice World Champion DDE team)
  • 1998. Kristina Ophardt (European champion DDE team)
  • 1999: Marijana Markovic (World Champion Cadet DDE Singles)
  • 2000: Isabel Haamel, Marijana Markovic (bronze EM DDE team)
  • 2017: Richard Schmidt (bronze WM HDE individual)

literature

  • Lothar R. Braun: 150 years, FC Offenbach 1863 to 2013: pioneer of modern fencing. Fencing club Offenbach from 1863, Offenbach am Main 2013, DNB 1038824265 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Board of Directors. On: fcoffenbach.de , accessed on March 20, 2020.
  2. ^ A b Holger Appel: DOSB President Thomas Bach on the Fencing Club Offenbach, Hans Hubert, Cornelia Hanisch and Nadine Stahlberg. In: op-online.de . December 17, 2011, accessed June 9, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b The history of fencing. In: fechten-paderborn.de. Retrieved June 9, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Die Zeit: Olympic Games 1936: When the Olympics are over, we will beat the Jews to a pulp! [1]
  5. ↑ Sarah Neder: Fencer August Heim from Offenbach: On the trail of a legend. In: op-online.de. October 16, 2014, accessed June 9, 2016 .
  6. ↑ a b Marc-Thorben Bühring: Miklos Bodoczi has been the trainer of the Offenbach fencing club for 20 years. In: op-online.de. April 4, 2012, accessed June 9, 2016 .
  7. ^ Fencing: Nadine Stahlberg from Offenbach at the Junior World Championship. In: op-online.de. April 7, 2015, accessed June 9, 2016 .
  8. ^ FAZ: Fencing World Championships. Bronze for the "flash machine". Epee fencer Richard Schmidt starts from world number 135 in the World Championship and surprisingly wins bronze . July 22, 2017. Online at www.faz.net. Retrieved July 22, 2017.
  9. ↑ Holger Appel: Open ear for wheelchair fencers. In: op-online.de. August 27, 2009, accessed June 10, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Big Star of Sports in bronze to Fechtclub Offenbach from 1863 eV On: fcoffenbach.de , accessed on June 10, 2016.
  11. ↑ Heiko Schneider: German Championships in wheelchair fencing a complete success. In: op-online.de. September 1, 2009, accessed June 10, 2016 .
  12. ^ Olympic Games. From: fcoffenbach.de , accessed on June 9, 2016.
  13. ↑ International tournaments. From: fcoffenbach.de , accessed on June 9, 2016.

Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 2.3 ″  N , 8 ° 45 ′ 52.7 ″  E