Richard Verderber

Richard Verderber medal table
fencing
Austria Cisleithanien Empire of Austria
Olympic games
silver	1912	Saber, crew
bronze	1912	Foil, single

Richard Verderber (born January 23, 1884 in Gottschee ; † September 8, 1955 in Vienna ) was an Austrian fencer who participated in the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm as a member of the Kuk military fencing and gymnastics instructor institute . There he won two medals and thus became the most successful Austrian at these games. After the First World War , Verderber remained in the military and also worked as a fencing trainer for the Vienna Union Fencing Club. Before the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin he coached the Austrian Olympic team.

Life

Verderber was born in Gottschee in 1884 and attended the cadet school in Marburg and Lemberg after high school . In 1902 he volunteered for Infantry Regiment No. 10. Already in that year fencing was specified as a special qualification in addition to swimming, cycling and gymnastics Verderber and in 1904 he was assigned to the Wiener Neustadt military fencing and gymnastics instructor course. From 1907 he was in charge of officer's lessons in foil fencing, skiing and swimming, and from 1912 until the outbreak of war he was the director of saber fencing lessons. In the meantime he was promoted to first lieutenant in 1909. In 1912 he took part in the Olympic Games in Stockholm and took second place with the saber team and was third in the foil singles.

During the First World War, Verderber was initially a company commander, and after his promotion to captain in 1915, he was finally a battalion commander from 1916. According to the war archive, he repeatedly showed “energy, drive and toughness against himself” and he was awarded several war awards. Towards the end of the war, he attended the army storm instructor course in Zloczow and became commander of the 25th storm battalion. After the war, Verderber remained in the military and was promoted several times. From 1925 he was in command of the Wiener Neustädter course for physical training, in 1934 he was promoted to colonel and retired.

Verderber had been a fencing master since 1907, but continued to take part in fencing competitions as an amateur until after the First World War he only worked as a trainer. Since 1923 at the latest he was fencing master of the Vienna Union Fencing Club, where he remained active as a fencing teacher until his death in 1955. In the course of preparations for the 1936 Olympic Games, he was also the trainer of the Austrian Olympic fencers.

In 1919 he married Pauline Weil, who came from a Jewish family and was probably the sister of one of his fencing students. The marriage was upheld even during the Nazi era.

successes

Grand Prix in saber singles, international tournament in Ostend 1908.
Four-time Austrian national champion, in 1912 and 1914 each with foil and saber.
3rd place in men's florets at the 1912 Olympic Games.
2nd place in the men's saber team at the 1912 Olympic Games together with Albert Bogen , Rudolf Cvetko , Friedrich Golling , Otto Herschmann , Andreas Suttner and Reinhold Trampler .

Web links

Richard Verderber in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Richard Verderber on "Verderber Worldwide"

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Michael Wenusch, History of the Viennese fencing sport in the 19th and 20th centuries (= dissertations from the University of Vienna 3 ), WUV - Universitätsverlag, Vienna 1996. p. 52.
↑ Michael Wenusch, History of the Viennese fencing sport in the 19th and 20th centuries (= dissertations from the University of Vienna 3 ), WUV - Universitätsverlag, Vienna 1996. P. 53f.
^ ^A ^b Michael Wenusch, History of the Viennese fencing sport in the 19th and 20th centuries (= dissertations from the University of Vienna 3 ), WUV - Universitätsverlag, Vienna 1996. P. 54f.
↑ Michael Wenusch, History of the Viennese fencing sport in the 19th and 20th centuries (= dissertations from the University of Vienna 3 ), WUV - Universitätsverlag, Vienna 1996. P. 430ff.

personal data
SURNAME	Corruptor, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian fencer
DATE OF BIRTH	January 23, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kočevje
DATE OF DEATH	September 8, 1955
Place of death	Vienna

[wenusch52-1] A ^b Michael Wenusch, History of the Viennese fencing sport in the 19th and 20th centuries (= dissertations from the University of Vienna 3 ), WUV - Universitätsverlag, Vienna 1996. p. 52.

[2] Michael Wenusch, History of the Viennese fencing sport in the 19th and 20th centuries (= dissertations from the University of Vienna 3 ), WUV - Universitätsverlag, Vienna 1996. P. 53f.

[wenusch54f-3] A ^b Michael Wenusch, History of the Viennese fencing sport in the 19th and 20th centuries (= dissertations from the University of Vienna 3 ), WUV - Universitätsverlag, Vienna 1996. P. 54f.

[4] Michael Wenusch, History of the Viennese fencing sport in the 19th and 20th centuries (= dissertations from the University of Vienna 3 ), WUV - Universitätsverlag, Vienna 1996. P. 430ff.