Jenő Fuchs
Personal information | |
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Nationality | Hungarian |
Born | 29 October 1882 Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary |
Died | 14 March 1955 (aged 72) Budapest, Hungary |
Sport | |
Sport | Fencing |
Event(s) | Sabre |
Club | Edison KE[1] |
Coached by | Gyula Rákossy |
Medal record |
Jenő Fuchs (29 October 1882 – 14 March 1955) was a Hungarian sabre fencer.[2] He competed at the 1908 and 1912 Olympics and won both the individual and team events at both Games. He missed the 1920 Olympics, where Hungary was not allowed to compete, and qualified for the 1924 Games, but left his place in the team to younger fencers.[1] In 1982 he was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.[3][4]
Fuchs studied law at the University of Budapest, defended a PhD in 1911, and became a lawyer.[1][5] Apart from fencing and law, he was a top-ranked rower and bobsledder in Hungary, and worked with the Budapest stock market.
Fuchs has been a victim to lies regarding his final years and his falsely alleged service in the Hungarian Second Army during the Second World War. These lies include him being awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class for his work and for being imprisoned after WW2. The false claims also say that Fuchs spent his final years in prison. The truth is that Fuchs was never in the Hungarian Second Army and received no such award. Fuchs spent his final years alive living with his grandchildren. The Hungarian Wikipedia page for Fuchs explains that scholars have refuted these false claims made previously here on the American Wikipedia page. As a Jew Fuchs and his wife used forged Swedish passports to escape Hungary and the Nazis. These passports were the work of Raoul Wallenberg. Alleged sourced material fueling these lies even quote his death year differently than the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
See also[]
- List of select Jewish fencers
References[]
- ^ a b c "Jenő Fuchs Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 30 January 2012. Retrieved 4 April 2010.
- ^ "Jenő Fuchs". Olympedia. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
- ^ International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. Jewishsports.net. Retrieved on 2018-06-06.
- ^ Jenő Fuchs. International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
- ^ Dénes Bernád; Charles K. Kliment (19 February 2015). Magyar Warriors. Volume 1: The History of the Royal Hungarian Armed Forces 1919-1945. Helion and Company. pp. 101–. ISBN 978-1-912174-49-2.
References to disputing slander 1.) https://www.passport-collector.com/olympic-gold-medal-winner-and-wife-saved-by-wallenberg/
2.) https://hu.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuchs_Jenő
3.) http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/JenoFuchs.htm
External links[]
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- Joseph Siegman (2000). Jewish Sports Legends. Brassey's. pp. 1–72. ISBN 1-57488-284-8. Retrieved 6 January 2015.
- "From the Ghetto to the Games: Jewish Athletes in Hungary"; 1985 at the Wayback Machine (archived 29 May 2008)
- 1882 births
- 1955 deaths
- Martial artists from Budapest
- Hungarian male sabre fencers
- Jewish fencers
- Jewish Hungarian sportspeople
- Olympic fencers of Hungary
- Fencers at the 1908 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1912 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Hungary
- Olympic medalists in fencing
- International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame inductees
- Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1912 Summer Olympics