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German Fencers: Helene Mayer, Anja Fichtel, Johannes Liechtenauer, Heidi Schmid, Britta Heidemann, Benjamin Kleibrink, Alexander Pusch

German Fencers: Helene Mayer, Anja Fichtel, Johannes Liechtenauer, Heidi Schmid, Britta Heidemann, Benjamin Kleibrink, Alexander Pusch


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Chapters: Helene Mayer, Anja Fichtel, Johannes Liechtenauer, Heidi Schmid, Britta Heidemann, Benjamin Kleibrink, Alexander Pusch, Imke Duplitzer, Arnd Schmitt, Claudia Bokel, Peter Joppich, Marijana Markovi, Jacob Sutor, Mandy Niklaus, . Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 40. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Helene Mayer (December 20, 1910 - October 15, 1953) was a world champion Olympic fencer who competed for Nazi Germany in the 1936 Summer Olympics, despite having being forced to leave Germany and resettle in the United States because she was of Jewish family background. She was born in Offenbach am Main. West German stamp from 1968 of MayerMayer was one of the top 100 female athletes of the 20th century. Mayer was only 13 when she won the German women's foil championship in 1924. By 1930, she had won 6 German championships. Mayer won a gold medal in fencing at the age of 17 at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, representing Germany, winning 18 bouts and losing only 2. She finished 5th at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Games. She then remained in the U.S. in 1933 to study at the University of Southern California, earned a certificate in social work, and fenced for the USC Fencing Club. In 1933 she learned that she had been expelled from the Offenbach Fencing Club as part of a Nazi purge of Jewish athletes. She had to leave Germany after Hitler's rise to power, shortly before World War II started, because her father was Jewish. The Amateur Athletic Union then voted to boycott the 1936 Olympics, to be held in Berlin, unless Jews were allowed to take part in the German trials and compete for Germany in the Olympics. As a gesture of compliance, the German Olympic Committee invited Mayer to join the national team. She accepted, and returned to Germany to compete in the 1936 Summer O...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=339931


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  • ISBN-13: 9781157247470
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 42
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Weight: 77 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1157247474
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Helene Mayer, Anja Fichtel, Johannes Liechtenauer, Heidi Schmid, Britta Heidemann, Benjamin Kleibrink, Alexander Pusch
  • Width: 229 mm


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