Josef Losert

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Josef "Pepi" Losert (born February 4, 1908 ; † unknown) was an Austrian fencer , ten-time winner of the Austrian state championship and Olympic participant. Most of his active fencing career he fought for the Vienna Sports Club . During the time of National Socialism he became a German champion . His brother Rudolf Losert was also a successful fencer. Josef also worked as a fencing trainer and trained his son Roland , who became world champion in the men's epee in 1963 , and his daughter Ingrid .

Life

Losert grew up with his brother in Mödling , where their father, also with the first name Josef, was a military fencing master. Both of them not only learned fencing, but were also successful in winter sports , Rudolf as an ice hockey player, Josef as a tobogganist. As a fencer, Josef was Austrian State and Gaumeister in foil before the Second World War in 1932, 1933, 1935 and 1943, and in 1935, 1937 and 1943 in saber. He also took several other places in the top three in all weapons, including with the sword.

At the international level, Losert was particularly successful with the men's floret team, with which he took second place at the 1933 World Championships and third place in 1937 (1933 together with Ernst Baylon , Richard Brünner , Kurt Ettinger and Hans Lyon , 1937 with Ernst Baylon, Kurt Ettinger , Roman Fischer , Hans Lyon and Hugo Weczerek ). In 1936 he took part in the Olympic Games in Berlin , finished 8th in the saber and advanced to the semi-finals in foil. With the saber team he finished fifth, with the foil team fourth behind Italy, France and Germany.

After the annexation of Austria , Losert became a member of the SS like many other top fencers . For the SG Bad Tölz he was able to win the German foil championship in 1943 .

After the Second World War he was again Austrian champion in foil in 1949 and 1950, and in 1950 also with the saber. He worked as a university fencing master in Freiburg and trained, among other things, his son, who became individual world champion in the epee in 1963 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ingrid Losert in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
  2. ^ Fecht-Union Mödling: History. (No longer available online.) Fecht-Union Mödling, archived from the original on February 1, 2015 ; accessed on February 1, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fum.at
  3. ↑ State champion of the last hundred years. (No longer available online.) KAC fencing, archived from the original on February 21, 2015 ; accessed on January 17, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / fechten.at
  4. ^ Fencing - World Championships (foil - men). sport-komplett.de, accessed on January 17, 2015 .
  5. ^ Josef Losert in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ).
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ 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.
personal data
SURNAME Losert, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Losert, Pepi (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian fencer, Austrian and German champion, Olympic participant
DATE OF BIRTH 4th February 1908
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century