Jakob Erckrath de Bary

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Jakob Erckrath de Bary (* as Jakob Erckrath ; March 10, 1864 in Offenbach am Main ; † August 14, 1938 in Seligenstadt ) was a German fencer and sports official. He was largely responsible for the establishment of modern fencing in Germany, a founding member and president of the German Fencing Federation and vice-president of the international fencing association Fédération Internationale d'Escrime . As an active fencer, he won a gold medal with the saber team at the 1906 Olympic Intermediate Games.

Life

Jakob Erckrath was born in Offenbach as the son of a master engraver, he took the nickname de Bary from his wife. As a gymnast, rower, marksman and hunter, he was gifted in many sports, but mainly devoted himself to fencing. On a trip to Italy around 1890 he got to know the Italian fencing school. As a result, he tried to modernize fencing in Germany, where fencing was still common according to traditional rules and with a fixed scale . As chairman of the fencing club Offenbach , which he headed from 1893 to 1921, he hired Arturo Gazzera, an Italian fencing master, in Offenbach in 1899 , and clubs in Frankfurt, Berlin, Hanover and Hamburg soon hired Italian coaches. Together with Arturo Gazzera, he translated the book The Fencing with Sword and Saber by Masaniello Parise from Italian.

In 1911, Erckrath de Bary was one of the founders of the German Fencing Association and its president until 1925. In addition, de Bary was one of the godparents of the International Fencing Association (Fédération Internationale d'Escrime) and one of its vice-presidents.

As an active fencer, Erckrath de Bary took part in the Olympic Intermediate Games in Athens in 1906 and competed in all three disciplines. He won the gold medal with the team in saber fencing, with the sword team he finished fifth, and in individual he was eliminated from the saber competitions early on. At the Olympic Games in London in 1908 he also competed individually and with the team in saber and epee fencing, but could no longer win any medals. Again four years later he took part in the Olympic Games in team saber fencing and finished in seventh place.

In 1936, together with Erwin Casmir , he organized the fencing competitions at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. In 1937 both received the golden badge of honor from the German Fencing Association. In the following year, de Bary, who can be considered the founder of modern sport fencing in Germany, died at the age of 74.

Works

  • Fencing with sword and sword by Masaniello Parise. Sole authorized translation by C. Arturo Gazzera and Jacob Erckrath-de Bary; Leipzig FW Gloeckner & Co., around 1890.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Klaus Dieter Güse, Andreas Schirmer: Fascination Fechten, From the miraculous rise of a sport in Germany. Limpert Verlag, Bad Homburg 1986, pp. 37-39.
  2. ↑ En Garde! Allez! Touché !: 100 years of fencing in Germany - a success story. German Fencing Association (ed.). Andreas Schirmer (Red.), Meyer & Meyer Sport, Aachen 2011, ISBN 978-3-89899-690-7 .
  3. ↑ Jakob Erckrath de Bary in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ), accessed on September 3, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Erckrath de Bary, Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Erckrath, Jakob (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fencer and sports official
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenbach am Main
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 1938
Place of death Seligenstadt