Rotraud von Wachter

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Rotraud von Wachter (* before 1929, † after 1937) was a German foil fencer . She fought in various fencing clubs in Munich, was twice German runner-up, two-time university world champion and runner-up world champion with the women's floret team.

successes

Von Wachter first reached the finals of a German championship in 1929 and finished fifth in the women's floret. She was runner-up in 1931 and 1937 , and third in 1934 .

In 1933 she was eighth in the Hutton Cup, an international women's fencing tournament, and in 1937 she was able to win an international tournament in Innsbruck. As a member of the German national team, she took part in the first European championships in Copenhagen in 1932 , which are considered the forerunners of the world championships , in the women's floret team. The German team with Roething Lindinger , Tilly Merz , Rotraud von Wachter and Erna Sondheim took 3rd place behind Denmark and Austria. Also in Copenhagen, von Wachter and the German team lost an international match against Denmark in 1937. At the World Championships in Paris in the same year, the women's floret team took second place (Rotraud von Wachter, Hedwig Haß , Helene Mayer and Olga Oelkers ).

Wachter studied in Munich from at least 1930 to 1937. In 1930 she became German university champion, and she also won the World University Championships in Budapest in 1935 and in Paris in 1937.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Schröder: Deutsche Fechtkunst , Georg Koenig Buchdruckerei and Verlag, Berlin 1938, pp. 49-66.
  2. ^ Max Schröder: Deutsche Fechtkunst , Georg Koenig Buchdruckerei und Verlag, Berlin 1938, 151–162.
  3. ↑ a b Fencing World Championships (Foil - Women). sport-komplett.de, accessed on December 29, 2016 .
  4. ^ Max Schröder: Deutsche Fechtkunst , Georg Koenig Buchdruckerei and Verlag, Berlin 1938, pp. 138–156.
  5. ^ Max Schröder: Deutsche Fechtkunst , Georg Koenig Buchdruckerei and Verlag, Berlin 1938, pp. 92-100.
personal data
SURNAME Wachter, Rotraud von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fencer
DATE OF BIRTH before 1929
DATE OF DEATH after 1937