Attila Petschauer

Attila Petschauer ( born December 14, 1904 in Budapest, † January 30, 1943 at Dawidowka, Ukraine ( USSR ) ) was a Hungarian fencer and journalist of Jewish descent.

Petschauer was a member of the Olympic selection in Hungary in Amsterdam in 1928 and 1932 in Los Angeles. He reached a second and a fifth place in single combat. At the European Championships in 1930 in Liège, and in 1931 in Vienna, he made ​​it to victory in the team game and 1925 in Ostend, 1926 in Budapest, 1929 in Naples and in 1930 in Liege, he came in second place. In 1931 he was third in Vienna. As a member of the Nemzeti Vivo Club (National Fencers Club ), he was 17 - times member of the selection team; Hungarian champion but he was never terrific, he was the eternal second.

After his retirement from the sport, he worked as an employee of the newspaper Az Est. He was a popular figure in the artistic world of Budapest in the interwar period. In 1942 he was called up for forced labor because of his Jewish origin, tortured ( he was ordered to hang down from the tree and was in the Ukrainian cold angspritzt with water ), and finally died in 1943 on the Eastern Front.

1985 Petschauer was elected to the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. His remains were allegedly found, the daily Népszabadság reported on 17 September 2005; previously been suggested that he was buried in a mass grave.