Heinrich Moos

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Heinrich Oskar Moos (born March 27, 1895 , † June 1976 ) was a German fencer , multiple German champion and Olympic participant. He fought for the fencing club Hermannia Frankfurt , later for the BK Berlin.

successes

Moos won the bronze medal three times with the saber team at world championships, or their predecessors, the international championships. The first time in 1931 in Vienna with Erwin Casmir , Julius Eisenecker and August Heim , then in 1935 in Lausanne with the line-up of Moos, Eisenecker, Heim, Hans Esser and Richard Wahl . In 1937 this success was repeated at the first official World Championships in Paris (with Casmir, Eisenecker, Esser, Heim, Moos and Wahl). He also took part in several international matches, 1927 in Cremona (foil, three defeats against Austria, France and Italy), 1929 in Nuremberg (saber, defeat against Hungary) and also in 1929 in Monte Carlo (one victory and two defeats in saber, two Defeats in foil).

At the Olympic Games in Amsterdam in 1928 , Moos took part in the saber singles as well as with the foil and saber team. The saber team took fourth place behind Hungary, Italy and Poland. In the saber singles he was eliminated in the second of three rounds, the foil team did not get past the first round.

At national level, he won the TuSB anniversary tournament in 1867 Leipzig with the saber in 1932 and the Torgau fencing tournament in 1936 . For the first time in 1920 Moos took part in the finals of a German championship and was eighth with the saber and sixth in epee fencing. In 1924 he was placed in the top three for the first time (3rd in the epee competition). Numerous other podium places followed ( 1926 second with the sword and third with the saber, 1927 third and 1928 second with the sword, 1929 second with the saber). In 1929 Moos became German champion in epee fencing. In 1931 and 1932 he won other championships with the saber, where he fought for the BK Berlin. His club, FC Hermannia Frankfurt, was the most successful fencing club in Germany before the Second World War and won numerous team championship titles in all weapons. The exact team line-ups are not known.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fencing - World Championships (Saber - Men). sport-komplett.de, May 12, 2008, accessed on October 21, 2014 .
  2. ^ Max Schröder: Deutsche Fechtkunst , Georg Koenig Buchdruckerei and Verlag, Berlin 1938, pp. 138–156.
  3. ↑ Heinrich Moos in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
  4. ^ Max Schröder: Deutsche Fechtkunst , Georg Koenig Buchdruckerei and Verlag, Berlin 1938, pp. 111-122.
  5. ^ Max Schröder: Deutsche Fechtkunst , Georg Koenig Buchdruckerei and Verlag, Berlin 1938, pp. 49-66.
  6. ↑ German individual champions. Deutscher Fechter Bund, May 8, 2013, accessed on February 18, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Moos, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moos, Heinrich Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fencer, multiple German champion and Olympic participant
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1895
DATE OF DEATH June 1976