Jakob Brendel

Jacob Brendel ( born September 18, 1907 in Speyer, † February 13, 1964 ) was a German wrestler.

Career

Jacob Brendel belonged from 1929 to 1938 at the absolute world class bantamweight. He showed his great successes alternately in two styles ( Greco- Roman and freestyle). The Ringer sports he had begun working at the Athletes' Federation ( AABD ) and was in the 1929 German Federal Association winner. In 1929 he moved for economic reasons from Speyer to Nuremberg and joined the ASC Sandow Nuremberg, which is also a dressing change from AABD for DASV was associated from 1891. Later he moved from the ASC Sandow Nuremberg SC 1904 Maxvorstadt Nuremberg. He participated in two Olympic Games and four European Championships and won - with one exception - in each of these events a medal. All successes he achieved bantamweight. His early death with already 56 years came as a surprise.

International success

In eight countries battles he represented Germany, scoring six wins. He hit it so well-known wrestler as Erland Nielsen and Hermann Andersen, Denmark, Antonín Nič, Czechoslovakia and Karl Mezulian, Austria.

National success

Jacob Brendel was in Greco-Roman wrestling in 1929, 1930 and 1935 German champion in 1931 and 1936, German Vice Champion. In freestyle, he won the 1936 and 1937 champion dignity and 1934 German Vice Champion. Its harshest German opponents were then Kurt Leucht, Nuremberg, Hermann Fischer, Zweibrücken, Willi Möchel, Cologne, John Herbert, Stuttgart, Fritz Ostermann, Saarbrücken, Justin Gehring, Home Fries and Ferdinand Schmitz, Cologne.

Swell

• Journal athletics from the years 1929 to 1936
• Journal weight training from the years 1937. 1938
• One Hundred Years of struggle in Germany, publishing The wrestler, Lower Berg, 1991, pp. 83, 84, 173, 211 and 224