Heinrich von Tenner

Heinrich von Tenner was an Austrian fencer who finished seventh in the individual sabre event at the 1900 Paris Olympics. In 1893-94 he was a fencing teacher at the Prague cadet school and a year later he taught sabre fencing in Vienna newtown. As a pupil of Luigi Barbasetti, he later taught several well-known fencers such as Milan Neralić.

Von Tenner was a military officer and became General Major of the Austrian-Hungarian k.u.k. army. He fought in World War I. In 1926 he became secretary general of the German Fencing Federation and helped fencers to prepare for the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics. From 1930-39 Tenner was president of the “Academy of Fencing Art” at Vienna until it was dissolved by the Nazis.