Max Hartung
{{Short description|German fencer}}
{{Infobox fencer
| name = Max Hartung
| caption =
| birth_name =
| full_name = Maximilian Hartung
| nickname =
| nationality = German
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1989|10|8|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Aachen, West Germany
| height = {{height|m=1.90}}
| weight = {{convert|88|kg|lb st|abbr=on}}
| website =max-hartung.de
| weapon = Sabre
| hand = right-handed
| club = TSV Bayer Dormagen
| natlcoach = Vilmoș Szabo
| headcoach = Vilmoș Szabo
| retired =
| fieranking = [https://fie.org/athletes/12611 current ranking]
| medaltemplates =
{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}
{{MedalGold|2014 Kazan|Team}}
{{MedalBronze|2015 Moscow|Individual}}
{{MedalBronze|2015 Moscow|Team}}
{{MedalCompetition|European Championships}}
{{MedalGold|2015 Montreaux|Team}}
{{MedalGold|2017 Tbilisi|Individual}}
{{MedalGold|2018 Novi Sad|Individual}}
{{MedalGold|2019 Düsseldorf|Team}}
{{MedalSilver|2011 Sheffield|Team}}
{{MedalSilver|2015 Montreux|Individual}}
{{MedalBronze|2010 Leipzig|Team}}
{{MedalBronze|2011 Sheffield|Individual}}
{{MedalBronze|2012 Legnano|Team}}
{{MedalBronze|2014 Strasbourg|Team}}
{{MedalBronze|2018 Novi Sad|Team}}
{{MedalBronze|2019 Düsseldorf|Individual}}
}}
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.{{Cite web|title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website|url=http://fie.org/athletes/12611|access-date=2021-05-20|website=FIE.org}}
Hartung is chairman of the Athletes Commission of the German Olympic Sports Confederation and the founding president of Athleten Deutschland e.V.{{Cite web|date=2018-05-28|title=DOSB Athletes' Commission chair suggests all Olympians be paid participation grant|url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1065606/dosb-athletes-commission-chair-calls-for-all-olympians-to-be-paid-participation-grant|access-date=2020-09-08|website=www.insidethegames.biz|first=Nick|last=Butler}} 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.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}
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.{{Cite web|date=2018-05-23|title=German panel urge Bach to change Rule 40 and give athletes more money|url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1065414/german-panel-urge-bach-to-change-rule-40-and-give-athletes-more-money|access-date=2020-09-08|website=www.insidethegames.biz|first=Nick|last=Butler}} 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.{{Cite web|title=German athlete group secures independent government funding|url=https://playthegame.org/news/news-articles/2018/0498_german-athlete-group-secures-independent-government-funding/|access-date=2020-09-08|website=playthegame.org}} 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.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}
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.{{Cite news|last=Panja|first=Tariq|last2=Rich|first2=Motoko|date=2020-03-23|title=U.S. Olympic Committee Urges Postponing Summer Games in Tokyo|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/sports/olympics/japan-olympics-2020-possible-postponement.html|access-date=2020-09-08|issn=0362-4331}}
Medal Record
= World Championship =
| class="wikitable" width="50%" style="font-size:90%; text-align:center;"
!Year !Location !Event !Position |
| 2014
| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|RUS}} Kazan, Russia |Team Men's Sabre |
| 2015
| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|RUS}} Moscow, Russia |Individual Men's Sabre | bgcolor="caramel" |3rd{{Cite web|title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website|url=http://fie.org/competitions/2015/246?tab=results|access-date=2021-05-20|website=FIE.org}} |
| rowspan="1" |2015
| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|RUS}} Moscow, Russia |Team Men's Sabre | bgcolor="caramel" |3rd{{Cite web|title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website|url=http://fie.org/competitions/2015/252?tab=results|access-date=2021-05-20|website=FIE.org}} |
= European Championship =
= Grand Prix =
= World Cup =
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.
References
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External links
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- [http://www.eurofencing.info/athletes/biography/max-hartung Profile] at the European Fencing Confederation
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Category:Olympic fencers for Germany
Category:Fencers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Category:Fencers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Category:Sportspeople from Aachen