Max Hartung

Maximilian Hartung (born 8 October 1989) is a German right-handed sabre fencer, two-time team European champion, two-time individual European champion, 2014 team world champion, and two-time Olympian.[1]

Max Hartung
Full nameMaximilian Hartung
Born (1989-10-08) 8 October 1989
Aachen, West Germany
NationalityGerman
Height1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight88 kg (194 lb; 13.9 st)
Websitemax-hartung.de
Sport
SportFencing
WeaponSabre
Handright-handed
National coachVilmoș Szabo
ClubTSV Bayer Dormagen
Head coachVilmoș Szabo
FIE rankingcurrent ranking
Medal record
World Championships
Gold medal – first place2014 KazanTeam
Bronze medal – third place2015 MoscowIndividual
Bronze medal – third place2015 MoscowTeam
European Championships
Gold medal – first place2015 MontreauxTeam
Gold medal – first place2017 TbilisiIndividual
Gold medal – first place2018 Novi SadIndividual
Gold medal – first place2019 DüsseldorfTeam
Silver medal – second place2011 SheffieldTeam
Silver medal – second place2015 MontreuxIndividual
Bronze medal – third place2010 LeipzigTeam
Bronze medal – third place2011 SheffieldIndividual
Bronze medal – third place2012 LegnanoTeam
Bronze medal – third place2014 StrasbourgTeam
Bronze medal – third place2018 Novi SadTeam
Bronze medal – third place2019 DüsseldorfIndividual

Hartung is chairman of the Athletes Commission of the German Olympic Sports Confederation and the founding president of Athleten Deutschland e.V.[2] He was a member of the Sporthilfe supervisory board for four years, four years in the board of the German Fencing Federation and two years in the board of the German Olympic Committee as the voice of the athletes. He completed his studies in politics, sociology and economics at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen and the Universiteit Gent.

With Athletes Germany, Hartung achieved a victory over IOC before the Federal Cartel Office. The advertising guidelines for German athletes at Olympic Games have been relaxed.[3] Following public criticism, the German Armed Forces have changed their sports promotion program after talks between Minister of Defense Ursula von der Leyen, Silke Kassner and Max Hartung. The Athletes Germany e. V, which he co-founded, is supported by the federal government with 450,000 euros per year and is the first athlete representation worldwide that is independent of the NOK.[4] In addition, on the initiative of Athletes Germany, the federal government introduced direct athlete support of 7 million euros for the first time and passed a pension package for athletes.

Hartung drew attention to himself around the postponement of the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan. He was the first athlete in the world to declare, before the official decision of the IOC, that he would not compete in the Olympic Games in July 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, out of consideration for the population living in Japan and global public health.[5]

Medal Record

World Championship
Year Location Event Position
2014 Russia Kazan, Russia Team Men's Sabre 1st[6]
2015 Russia Moscow, Russia Individual Men's Sabre 3rd[7]
2015 Russia Moscow, Russia Team Men's Sabre 3rd[8]

European Championship
Year Location Event Position
2010 Germany Leipzig, Germany Team Men's Sabre 3rd[9]
2011 United Kingdom Sheffield, United Kingdom Individual Men's Sabre 3rd[10]
2011 United Kingdom Sheffield, United Kingdom Team Men's Sabre 2nd[11]
2012 Italy Legnano, Italy Team Men's Sabre 3rd[12]
2014 France Strasbourg, France Team Men's Sabre 3rd[13]
2015 Switzerland Montreux, Switzerland Individual Men's Sabre 2nd[14]
2015 Switzerland Montreux, Switzerland Team Men's Sabre 1st[15]
2017 Georgia (country) Tbilisi, Georgia Individual Men's Sabre 1st[16]
2018 Serbia Novi Sad, Serbia Individual Men's Sabre 1st[17]
2018 Serbia Novi Sad, Serbia Team Men's Sabre 3rd[18]
2019 Germany Düsseldorf, Germany Individual Men's Sabre 3rd[19]
2019 Germany Düsseldorf, Germany Team Men's Sabre 1st[20]

Grand Prix
Date Location Event Position
05/17/2014 Poland Warsaw, Poland Individual Men's Sabre 2nd[21]
04/26/2019 South Korea Seoul, South Korea Individual Men's Sabre 3rd[22]
05/24/2019 Russia Moscow, Russia Individual Men's Sabre 3rd[23]

World Cup
Date Location Event Position
02/18/2011 Italy Padua, Italy Individual Men's Sabre 3rd[24]
05/01/2015 Spain Madrid, Spain Individual Men's Sabre 3rd[25]
05/19/2017 Spain Madrid, Spain Individual Men's Sabre 1st[26]
02/01/2019 Poland Warsaw, Poland Individual Men's Sabre 3rd[27]
03/22/2019 Hungary Budapest, Hungary Individual Men's Sabre 1st[28]
03/08/2019 Italy Padua, Italy Individual Men's Sabre 3rd[29]
05/10/2019 Spain Madrid, Spain Individual Men's Sabre 1st[30]

Voluntary commitment

In 2013 he was elected athlete spokesman of the German Fencing Federation. Since September 2014, Hartung has also been a member of the Athletes' Commission of the DOSB, since February 2017 he has been its chairman. He is also a member of the supervisory board of the Stiftung deutsche Sporthilfe.

He is the founding president of Athleten Deutschland e.V. After the challenges of the athletes' representatives in the DOSB in the years 2014 to 2016, the Athletes' Commission decided to found an independent association, independent of the DOSB, to strengthen the athletes' interests. Decisive factors for the founding of the association were the dissatisfaction with the doping scandal in Russia, the many cases of sexualized violence in sports, the competitive sports reform with a strong medal focus and the introduction of the anti-doping law. Athletes Germany today has 450,000 Euro annually and employs five staff.

The club fights for a German sports system that offers athletes the best conditions in the world for developing their sporting and personal potential and respects them as human beings. It fights for athletes in all arenas and encourages them to shape the future of their sport themselves.

The organization aims to enable athletes to improve communication between athletes and institutions. Athletes Germany shall represent the interests of the athletes towards the federations, but also towards all other actors in sports, politics and society and develop the legal relationship and the nomination procedures between athletes and federations. The association has set itself the goal of promoting athlete support that enables athletes to embark on a competitive sports career without having to fear disadvantages or existential fears, and that promotes fair and clean sports.

Podcast

With his team mate Matyas Szabo, Hartung runs the largest German-language fencing podcast. On the way to the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020, the two of them recorded more than 40 episodes and let the audience take a look behind the mask. During the lockdown, the team also recorded training videos for children who had no access to their gyms and published them on YouTube. They have been awarded for this project by Beyond Crisis and Germany Land of Ideas.

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