Stefanie Stern

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Stefanie Stern (born 1901 ; died 1996 ) was a German foil fencer . She trained at the fencing club Offenbach and won the first German championship in a women's competition.

successes

Stern was a student of the Italian fencing master Arturo Gazzera , who was employed by the Offenbach fencing club due to Jakob Erckrath de Bary's commitment to establish the Italian fencing school in Germany. As early as 1901, Gazzera held an exhibition match with a student and established a women's fencing department early on, from which, in addition to Stern, Helene Mayer , Hedwig Haß and other successful female fencers emerged.

In 1923 a German championship in women's floret was held for the first time, from which Stern emerged victorious. In 1924 she was able to repeat her success at the German championships, a year later ( 1925 ) she had to give way to her club mate Helene Mayer, who relegated Stern to second place.

Also in 1923, Stern took part in a tournament with Dutch competition, in which FC Offenbach participated alongside Stern Erckrath de Bary, Hans Halberstadt , Julius Lichtenfels , Georg Stöhr and Hans Thomson . This was the first competition of FC Offenbach with foreign participation since the First World War . Stern also won the American Championship in Philadelphia in 1927. In the same year she married the Munich-born Jewish engineer Philip Oppenheimer in America.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Andreas Schirmer, 150 years of FC Offenbach - Die Modernisierer vom Main , fechtsport magazin 04/2013, pp. 20–22.
  2. ↑ Tables 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. Page 218 ff.
  3. ^ Oppenheimer Stern Family Collection 1909-2002. Center for Jewish History, accessed September 11, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Stern, Stefanie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German foil fencer
DATE OF BIRTH 1901
DATE OF DEATH 1996