Paul Roux (fencing master)

On the floor of the university fencing master Roux (the man with the beard in the center of the picture is Paul Roux)

Grave urn of Paul Roux in the Leipzig South Cemetery , Section II

Paul Roux (born May 26, 1870 in Leipzig , † October 28, 1935 in Leipzig) was a German fencing master .

Live and act

He was the son of the fencing master Ludwig Caesar Roux . Paul worked as a fencing master in Leipzig since 1902. In 1917 he was called up for military service. He felt the effects of inflation so much that he was forced to give up the fencing profession in 1923. He then worked as an administrative clerk at the University of Leipzig. Roux was the last fencing master paid by the university in Leipzig. His successor Ernst Staberoh was allowed to call himself university fencing master, but in contrast to Roux received no salary, only the fees from the students for the fencing lessons. When the National Socialists came to power in 1933, there was no longer room for the university fencing master, and not just in Leipzig.

The son of the lawyer and jubilee rector of 1909 Karl Binding , Rudolf Georg Binding, processed this person or his father in 1911 in the novella "Die Waffenbrüder".

Roux also wrote two books on saber fencing.

Works

Saber fencing "right against right" and "left against left". H. Pöhle, Jena 1899.
The fencing master families Kreußler and Roux: A historical review of the German fencing art from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the present century. Frommannsche Buchdruckerei, Jena 1911 ( excerpt ; PDF; 79 kB).

literature

Mario Todte: Fencing, riding and dance master at the University of Leipzig (Studies on Culture and History Vol. 1, edited by Lars-Arne Dannenberg and Matthias Donath ), Bernstadt ad Eigen 2016. ISBN 978-3-944104-12-6

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Todte 2016, 47–63.
↑ Leipzig University Archives. Existing rector: Rep. I / VIII / 206a: The university fencing master and the fencing local of the students swda re. 1864–1923.
^ Rudolf G. Binding: The Brothers in Arms, Potsdam 1941.

personal data
SURNAME	Roux, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German fencing master
DATE OF BIRTH	May 26, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH	October 28, 1935
Place of death	Leipzig

[1] Todte 2016, 47–63.

[2] Leipzig University Archives. Existing rector: Rep. I / VIII / 206a: The university fencing master and the fencing local of the students swda re. 1864–1923.

[3] Rudolf G. Binding: The Brothers in Arms, Potsdam 1941.