Gothic

  A relatively rare, German fencing book -- Säbelfechten: Schule und Kampf -- was published in 1938, printed in Fraktur (Gothic script). Its author was Carl Stritesky, a well known fencing master at the Münich University; he was still active in the 60s in the capital of Bavaria. The following collage provides a general overview of this book.

  The most interesting tidbits are:

• the type of fencing headgear used around 1938;
• a German fencing sabre (basically a Glockenschläger), compared to an Italian one;
• how to hold properly the grip of an Italian fencing sabre [1].

Page 8-9

  On page 9 we can see for example the depiction of a correct and an incorrect way to perform step forward. For those visitors who can read German, it might be interesting to see the indexed content of the book, this gives us an insight which fencing topics (concepts) are covered in this book.

  In 1934 several other fencing masters were active at the Münich University. [3] 

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1. It is a little difficult to read text (Erfassen der Waffe = holding the weapon), but it is possible to decipher the low-resolution text (upper image: richting = the right way, lower image: falsch).
2. The last 3 images are from Ebay.
3. „BENEDIKT BARTENSCHLAGER Universitäts-Fechtmeister, Türkenstraße 33, SeItenb. I/I. ---- BRUNO NEY, Universitäts-Fechtmeister, Irschenhauser Straße 14. --- LUDWIG GERNGROSS, Universitäts-Fechtmeister, Schwanthalerstraße 70/2. --- OTTO ALBRECHT d. jung., Universitäts-Fechtmeister, München 13, Türkenstraße 60. --- Diplomfechtmeister CARL STRITESKY, Universitäts-Fechtmeister, München 13, Görresstraße 8/1.” List of the University Personnel (1934)