Academic fencing
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Academic fencing or Mensur is the traditional kind of fencing practised by some student corporations in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Latvia, Estonia, and, to a minor extent, in Belgium, Lithuania, a
Mensur fencing in Heidelberg, 1900
![An 1896 picture of Adolf Hoffmann-Heyden [de], a German Corpsstudent, showing an extensive fresh fencing scar and some minor old ones](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Adolf_Hoffmann-Heyden.JPG/500px-Adolf_Hoffmann-Heyden.JPG)
An 1896 picture of Adolf Hoffmann-Heyden [de], a German Corpsstudent, showing an extensive fresh fencing scar and some minor old ones
Student sabre duel, 1900
Mensur fencing with Korbschlägern in Tübingen in 1831
Dueling scar
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Dueling scars have been seen as a "badge of honour" since as early as 1825. Known variously as "Mensur scars", "the bragging scar", "smite", "Schmitte", or "Renommierschmiss", dueling scars were popul
Academic fencing
…cities use Glockenschläger because their tradition had its origin in one of the eastern universities but moved to West Germany after World War II. The scar resulting from a hit is called a "smite" (German: Schmiss), and was seen as a badge of honour, especially in the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the…
Aenne and Franz Burda, 9 July 1931. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, dueling scars were seen as a badge of honor in Germany and Austria, making their owners "good husband material".
Attorney Curt Silberman showing an old dueling scar on his jaw (1967)
Rudolf Diels, co-founder and head of the Gestapo from 1933 to 1934