Emil Beck

Emil Beck ( born July 20, 1935 in Tauberbischofsheim, † March 12, 2006 ) was a German fencing coach.

Life

The trained hairdresser began in the mid 1950s with the sport of fencing. Fencing scenes from the movie The Three Musketeers had the youngsters impressed. With great passion for the sport he created in Tauberbischofsheim the world famous fencing training center, which in the 1970s to the Olympic " goldsmith " was. As a coach of fencing sizes as Matthias Behr, Alexander Pusch and Anja Fichtel he became one of the most successful fencing coaches in the world. Olympic medals, World and European titles have been won since 1973 (first world title for an athlete from Tauberbischofsheim ) rows under his care. At the height of his creative powers Anja Fichtel, Sabine construction and Zita radio Hauser won gold, silver and bronze at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul in Women's Foil. Such a triumph could not be repeated in the history of the German fencing. Beck was one with Karl Adam ( rowing) and Gustav Kilian ( wheel ) to the big three among the coaches self-taught in the West German sport. By 1999, Beck, who was from 1970 to 1986 responsible for the areas epee and men's foil and from 1986 for all fencing weapons Head Coach, Olympic as national coach 20 and 91 World Championship medals won, but had to resign after quarrels in Tauberbischofsheimer Olympic Training Center.

Matthias Behr became his successor as team manager of the German national fencing for a short time.

Some time after, Beck had retired from the sport, he was back in the headlines, emerged as allegations of misappropriation of one million euros. In 2004 it came to the indictment for embezzlement and suppression of documents. The trial could not be completed in his lifetime. He lived for the new direction in 1997, the "House of athletes " in his hometown.

On March 12, 2006 Beck died of heart failure. According to him, the first time in 2008, awarded the Emil Beck Memorial Award of the fencing club Tauberbischofsheim was named, with the club honors individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the sport of fencing.

His son Frank Beck was also in Fencing active.