Paul Anspach
Paul Anspach ( born April 1, 1882 in Burcht; † August 28, 1981 in Brussels) was a Belgian athlete Fencing ( Epee and Foil ) and won numerous medals at the Olympic games.
Sporting successes
- At the Olympic Summer Games 1908 in London, he came through with two wins in the epee individual event in 5th place, ex-aequo with the Dutch and the British Alfred Labouchère Cecil Haig. In epee team competition he reached (together with Désiré Beaurain, Fernand Bosmans, Fernand de Montigny, Ferdinand Feyerick, Francis Rome and Victor Willems ) the bronze medal, which he won 10 of his 15 fights themselves.
- At the Summer Olympics in Stockholm in 1912 he won the epee individual with six wins the gold medal, as well as with the Belgian epee team (except Paul Anspach were the his brother Henri Anspach, Fernand de Montigny, Jacques Ochs, Gaston Salmon, Victor Willems and Robert hen t ). In his own seven fights he won here six times. In the single - foil fencing Although he reached the semifinals, came in the standings this to be only ranked 12th
- After 1916 due to the First World War, not the Olympics took place, he brought in the next Summer Olympics in Antwerp in 1920 with his epee team (except him Léon Tom, Ernest Gevers, Felix Goblet d' Aviella, Maurice de Wee, Fernand de Montgny, Joseph de Craecker, Victor Boin and Philippe Le Hardy de Beaulieu ), the silver medal
- Likewise, he won the silver medal at the Summer Olympics in Paris in 1924 together with his team (except Anspach belonged to Fernand de Montigny, Joseph de Craecker, Ernest Gevers, Tom Léon and Charles Delporte ). In individual epee competition, although he reached the final round, but eventually came to 9th place.
Functions in Fencing, ceremony
From 1909 to 1928 Anspach was captain of the Belgian national team epee.
From 1933 to 1948 he was president of the Fédération Internationale d' Escrime ( International Fencing Federation), whose Secretary General, he was previously. During the Second World War, however, rested the activities of the FIE after the Gestapo confiscated their documents (which later appeared never again). Paul Anspach was Jewish.
Anspach in 1976 was awarded the Olympic Order by the IOC in silver.
His brother Henri Anspach was also fencer and at the Olympic Games 1912 gold winning team here.
Swell
- Paul Taylor: Jews and the Olympic Games: the clash in between sport and politics: with a complete review of Jewish Olympic medalists, Brighton: Sussex Academic Press 2004, ISBN 1-903900-87-5, p 223