Oszkár Gerde
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 Gerde at the 1908 Olympics | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Oszkár Pál Gerde |
| Born | 8 July 1883[1][2][3] |
| Died | 8 October 1944 (aged 61) Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, Nazi Germany (now Austria) |
| Education | Fasori Gimnázium |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Fencing |
Event | Sabre |
| Club | Magyar AC |
| Coached by | Italo Santelli László Borsody |
Medal record | |
Oszkár Pál Gerde (8 July 1883 – 8 October 1944) was a Hungarian sabre fencer who won team gold medals at the 1908 and 1912 Olympics.[4] After finishing his active career he judged international fencing competitions[5] and worked as a lawyer.[6] Being a Jew, he was deported from Hungary in 1944, and killed in the same year at the Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp in Austria.[1][7] In 1989 he was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.[5]
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- 1 2 Leonard Jay Greenspoon (2012). Jews in the Gym: Judaism, Sports, and Athletics. Purdue University Press. pp. 166–. ISBN 978-1-55753-629-7.
- ↑ "Oszkár Gerde Bio, Stats, and Results". Sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
- ↑ "The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936 | The Holocaust Persecution of Athletes". Ushmm.org. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
- ↑ "Oszkár Gerde". Olympedia. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
- 1 2 "Dr. Oszkar Gerde". Jewishsports.net. Archived from the original on 26 September 2019. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
- ↑ Joseph M. Siegman (1992). The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. SP Books. pp. 102–. ISBN 978-1-56171-028-7.
- ↑ "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
External links
[edit]- Oszkár Gerde at the Hungarian Olympic Committee (in Hungarian)
- Oszkár Gerde at Olympedia
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- Olympic fencers for Hungary
- Fencers from Budapest
- Hungarian people who died in Mauthausen concentration camp
- Fencers at the 1908 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1912 Summer Olympics
- Jewish Hungarian sportspeople
- Olympic gold medalists for Hungary
- Olympic medalists in fencing
- Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1912 Summer Olympics
- Hungarian male sabre fencers
- Jewish sabre fencers
- International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame inductees
- Hungarian Jews who died in the Holocaust