Oszkár Gerde

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Oszkár Pál Gerde (July 8, 1883 – October 8, 1944) was a Hungarian sabre fencer. He was born in Budapest, then part of Austria-Hungary. He won team gold medals for Hungary at the 1908 London Olympics and the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. After his fencing career, he judged international competitions and worked as a lawyer. Gerde was Jewish and was deported from Hungary in 1944, dying at the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in Austria. In 1989, he was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.