Roman Fischer (fencer)

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Roman Fischer (born August 3, 1915 in Vienna , † after 1938) was an Austrian fencer , winner of the Austrian state championship and Olympic participant. During the time of National Socialism he was a German master . He fought for the Residenz fencing club in Vienna .

successes

In 1934 and 1935 Fischer was second, in 1936 third at the Austrian state championships with the sword. In 1937 he was able to win the championships with the foil. The residential fencing club also won several medals in the 1930s, but the exact team line-up is not known.

At the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, he finished fourth with the Austrian foil team, behind Italy, France and Germany. In the epee he was eliminated both individually and with the team in the first round. The following year he won the team bronze medal at the 1937 World Championships in Paris in the men's floret together with Ernst Baylon , Kurt Ettinger , Josef Losert , Hans Lyon and Hugo Weczerek .

After the annexation of Austria , Fischer became a member of the SS , to which numerous successful fencers belonged at the instigation of Reinhard Heydrich , the head of the Reich Security Main Office , himself an active fencer. In 1938 he won the first German championship title for the SS at the German championships with the foil. On the occasion of winning the German championships in 1938, Max Schröder judged Fischer to be a little over 1.80 meters tall and “generally well trained”. His fencing style is "exact, clean" and he is equally strong in attack and defense.

Fischer was a bank clerk by profession.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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
  2. ^ Roman Fischer in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original ).
  3. ^ Fencing - World Championships (foil - men). sport-komplett.de, accessed on January 17, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Berno Bahro: The time of National Socialism , 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. pp. 44–53, here p. 51.
  5. ↑ a b Max Schröder: Critical consideration of the German championships , in: Deutsche-Fechter-Zeitung No. 9/10 year 1938, May 1938, p. 110f.
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Roman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian fencer, winner of the Austrian state championship and Olympic participant
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH after 1938