Oszkár Gerde
Gerde at the 1908 Olympics
Personal information
Full nameOszkár Pál Gerde
Born8 July 1883[1][2][3]
Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary
Died8 October 1944 (aged 61)
Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, Austria
Alma materFasori Gimnázium
Sport
SportFencing
EventSabre
ClubMagyar AC
Coached byItalo Santelli
László Borsody
Medal record
Representing  Hungary
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1908 London Team sabre
Gold medal – first place 1912 Stockholm Team sabre

Dr. Oszkár 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. 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.
  2. ↑ "Oszkár Gerde Bio, Stats, and Results". Sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
  3. ↑ "The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936 | The Holocaust Persecution of Athletes". Ushmm.org. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
  4. ↑ "Oszkár Gerde". Olympedia. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  5. 1 2 "Dr. Oszkar Gerde". Jewishsports.net. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
  6. ↑ Joseph M. Siegman (1992). The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. SP Books. pp. 102–. ISBN 978-1-56171-028-7.
  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.
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