Kurt Berthold

Kurt Berthold (born August 10, 1902 , † July 13, 1977 in Nuremberg ) was a German fencing master and chairman of the association of fencing masters .

Life

Kurt Berthold began training as a fencing master with Fechtmeister Fehn in Erlangen at the age of 17 and assisted in Dresden, Berlin and Budapest in the following years. In 1935 he passed the examination for academic weapons in Jena, and in 1937 in Heidelberg for sports weapons. In 1947 he resumed teaching in Erlangen and was head of the university sports department from 1951 to 1953. Because he refused to give up racket fencing, this office was withdrawn from him. He set up his own fencing floor in Nuremberg.

Berthold was significantly involved in the development of the electronic hit display devices for foil and epee . In 1950 he enforced the approval of racket fencing in the fencing specialist group in the Bavarian Sports Teachers Association. When the Association of Fencing Masters was re-established on the occasion of the German fencing championships in Mainz in 1951, Berthold was elected first chairman. He held this office until 1973.

literature

• Hermann Rink : In memoriam Kurt Berthold . In: Deutsche Corpszeitung 79 (1978), pp. 51–52