Association of Fencing Masters
The Association of Fencing Masters (VdF) is the association of fencing masters who specialize in the student scale . The VdF only trains male students to become VdF fencing masters .
history
The association was founded as Verein Deutscher Fechtmeister 1884 (VdF) on the initiative of the Göttingen fencing master Robert Grüneklee , who invited all German university fencing masters to an exchange about uniform methods of fencing instruction. The founding meeting took place on August 20, 1884 in the Hotel Dexel in Frankfurt am Main. Grüneklee became first chairman. The aims of the association were the maintenance and promotion of an artistic fencing according to uniform methods on all universities and private fencing floors, the training and testing of young fencing masters and the cultivation of a comradely spirit among the members.
After the First World War, Christian Seemann-Kahne, who in 1906 had already drawn up a design for a saber fencing school , took over the members' collection. In 1927 a state fencing master examination was introduced in Spandau , which supplemented the previous examinations of the VdF examination committee. Under National Socialism in 1934 it was affiliated to the fencing department of the Association of German Gymnastics, Sports and Gymnastics Teachers.
Fencing was banned as a military exercise by Control Council Directive No. 23 of December 17, 1945. The ban remained in place for academic fencing even after sport fencing was re-admitted in March 1950. In April 1951 the VdF was re-established in agreement with the German Fencing Association, which was re-established in 1949 . The first chairman was the fencing master Kurt Berthold from Erlangen . In the same year, under the chairmanship of Hans-Reinhard Koch, the Working Group Andernach Mensurbeflissener Associations (AGA) was established, with which the VdF entered into a close cooperation. Some fencing masters from the field of sport fencing left the VdF in 1952 because they feared for their position when they resumed teaching in academic fencing and founded the Academy of the Art of Fencing Germany (ADFD). The legalization of the scaling right was made by the basic judgment of the Federal Court of Justice of January 29, 1953 (→ see also: Göttingen scaling process ) . On April 20, 1979, the association was in the the district court Nuremberg Register of Associations registered.
From 1960, the chairmen of the association were Günter Rupp (Cologne), Harro Göhler (Hamburg), Henner Huhle (Cologne), Kurt-Joachim Betz (Marburg and Gießen) and Andreas Brix (Braunschweig, Göttingen, Hanover, Vienna).
Training to become a fencing master
The training to become a fencing master takes place after an introduction of the interested party and his formal acceptance as an apprentice by the association in close coordination with the working group of Andernach mensur-conscious associations . Once the student status has been awarded, active participation in a mensur is no longer permitted, and activity as a second is also excluded. In the training course, knowledge of the three sporting weapons foil , epee and light saber is imparted over a period of two years . The focus, however, is on acquiring the qualification as a trainer in the three academic weapons basket bat , bell bat and heavy saber .
The minimum time for practical training in academic weapons is currently 1000 hours. A particularly challenging aspect of the training is fencing with the weaker arm, as this is the only way to ensure that a future fencing master VdF can not only teach fencing between two right-handers, but also between two left-handers and between a right-hander and a left-hander . After the first year the preliminary examination takes place, after the second year of training and a written master’s thesis that has been assessed as sufficient, the practical main examination usually takes two to three hours.
literature
- Professional knowledge for fencing master VdF . Association of Fencing Masters, Würzburg 1968.
- Henner Huhle , Helma Brunck: 500 years of fencing masters in Germany. Oldest privileged profession . Kunz, Kelkheim im Taunus 1987, ISBN 3-923420-08-0 , ( Small writings of the Historisches Museum Frankfurt am Main 34).
- Hermann Rink : The Association of German Fencing Masters from 1884 (formerly the Association of University Fencing Masters) for the 120th anniversary . In: then and now. 2005 yearbook of the Society for Corps Student History Research. 50, 2005, ISSN 0420-8870 , pp. 191-205.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Directive No. 23 of December 17, 1945: Restriction and demilitarization of sports in Germany