Willy Osterrieth

Willy Osterrieth (born October 27, 1908 in Antwerp , † March 8, 1931 in Kali Baroe, near Surabaya , Dutch East Indies ) was a Belgian fencer .

The scene of the accident at Kali Baroe in East Jawa

family

The ancestors of the paternal, male line of Osterrieth lived in Strasbourg in Alsace for at least five generations and worked there as master carpenters. Individual family members went to Switzerland. Such was Johann Daniel Osterrieth (1768-1839) in Bern worked as an architect. A Samuel Friedrich Osterrieth (1763–1821) moved to Frankfurt am Main and traded in hides, skins, Rhine wines and operated bills of exchange and a forwarding agency. He made it up to senior (president) of the then "Chamber of Commerce" and became the founder of the Frankfurt family branch. His son August Osterrieth founded a printing company in Frankfurt am Main. Albert Osterrieth (1865–1926) was a Berlin professor of law as well as a publicist and co-founder of commercial legal and copyright protection.

Jacques-Ernest Osterrieth (1826–1896) moved from Frankfurt to Antwerp. He became the founder of the Belgian family branch. The ancestors of his grandmother's family were Calvinist religious refugees from Valenciennes in Hainaut near Antwerp . After the early death of his spouse, he concluded a third marriage in 1867 with the 24-year-old Léonie Marie Mols (born February 2, 1843 Antwerp, † December 22, 1918 ibid). She was the sister of the painter Robert Mols and also the granddaughter of Mathieu Laurent Brialmont . His son Robert Alfred Osterrieth (born October 2, 1869 in Antwerp; † May 30, 1947 in Brussels) married the wealthy Anna Eugénie Marie Ghislaine Lippens (1877–1957) in Ghent on December 27, 1899.

Life

Willy Osterrieth was a well-known Belgian fencer and nephew of the then Belgian Minister of Transport. A year before his death, Willy was still a participant in the 1930 World Fencing Championships in Liège (Liège). There he won team gold in a sword for Belgium, ahead of Argentina and France. The following year he died as a 23-year-old on a trip around the world to East India, an accidental death in Kali Baroe on Java in what was then the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia.

Web links

• Newspaper note in the Schenectady Gazette from March 12, 1931 about the accidental death of Willy Osterrieth by a friend (PDF; 1.2 MB)
• History fencing world championships epee team (men) from sport-komplett.de
• World Championship Medals by Year - Belgium (PDF; 85 kB)
• Personal data Willy Osterrieth (1908-1931)