Fritz Schäfer

Fritz Schäfer ( born September 7, 1912 in Pirmasens, † October 15, 1973 in Ludwigshafen, Germany) was a German wrestler in two styles ( Greco- Roman and freestyle).

Life

Fritz Schaefer began with eight years in the student section of the AK Pirmasens with the rings. He learned the trade of a butcher. The crew of the AK Pirmasens, who then belonged to such well-known wrestlers like Paul Böhmer and Emil Poganiatz, 1929 German Team Champion. In the preliminary fights to shepherd was with almost 18 years used several times and defeated it in the featherweight Olympic champion bantamweight in 1928, the Nuremberg Kurt Leucht, on points and had thus recognize his great talent rings. In 1930 he became German youth champion in the class up to 65 kg body weight. Fritz Schäfer, even then ambitious and restless, wanted a regular place in a team and therefore moved to Zweibrücken, but said also agree with the VfK Schiffer city. A ban by the association was the result. Ultimately, he struggled for a few years but when VfK Schiffer city in 1935 to move to SC Siegfried Ludwigshafen and to be with this club from 1937 to 1941 German team champion.

During the war, Shepherd worked as a butcher in a butcher's army in France. When the war ended he gets in French captivity, volunteers for the French Foreign Legion and spent the years 1945-1951 in North Africa and Indochina. In 1951 he was fired, getting married in France for the second time and remains in France. In Germany it is considered lost. In 1972, he is destitute of former Ludwigshafen Ringer comrades, located and returns, now widowed for the second time, to Ludwigshafen back, but where he died already on 15 October 1973.

International success

In addition, Shepherd won in 31 countries battles 25 victories.

German Championships

Notes

  • OS = The Olympic Games, European Championship EM =
  • GR = Greco-Roman style, F = Freestyle
  • Lightweight, then to 66 kg to 72 kg welterweight middleweight to 79 kg body weight

Swell

  • Journals athletics from the years 1929-1936 and weight training from the years 1937 to 1939
  • One Hundred Years of struggle in Germany, publishing The wrestler, Lower Mount, pages 105 to 109, 196, 214, 215, 217, 227 and 228
Wrestling Rudolf Svedberg Wrestling at the 1936 Summer Olympics Berlin Eino Virtanen Eduard Sperling Tuttlingen Freising Duisburg Bad Reichenhall Ludwig Schweickert Niedernberg
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