Background
Emil Beck was born in Tauberbischofsheim, in the Main-Tauber-District of Baden-Württemberg in Germany on 12 July 1935.
Emil Beck was born in Tauberbischofsheim, in the Main-Tauber-District of Baden-Württemberg in Germany on 12 July 1935.
The former hairdresser Emil Beck began in the mid 1950s with fencing. Fencing scenes from the movie The Three Musketeers had impressed the young manitoba In 1954 Emil Beck was the "founding father" of the Fencing-Club Tauberbischofsheim.
He created a school of fencing sometimes referred to as the "German school" since Beck"s influence on German fencing was profound.
As a fencing coach, Beck was largely self-taught. Beck coined the reputation of the Fencing-Club Tauberbischofsheim in the 1970s as "Tauberbischofsheimer goldsmith" and "Mecca of fencing".
Beck trained fencers such as Matthias Behr, Alexander Pusch and Anja Fichtel. Beck was succeeded as German fencing team leader by Matthias Behr.
12 March 2006 Emil Beck died of heart failure.
„ „Emil Beck Memorial Award“. With this award the Fencing-Club Tauberbischofsheim honors personalities who have done something extraordinary and outstanding for fencing. „Emil-Beck-Hall“ in Tauberbischofsheim Some quotes of famous personalities about Beck illustrate his life"s work at the Fencing-Club Tauberbischofsheim: He was a charismatic personality who not let someone indifferent.
His life"s work is outstanding, he has changed fencing and his hometown positively and that will reverberate for a long time.
Tauberbischofsheim would never have this reputation without Emil Beck. The honorary president of the German Fencing Association (DFeB), Gordon Rapporteur, paid tribute to Becks commitment as: Unique in the world.
Fencing in Germany and even international would not have this status without Emil Beck.
