Georg Gehring

Georg Gehring medal table
Wrestler
Germany
Olympic games
bronze	1928 Amsterdam	Heavy
European Championship
gold	1926 Riga	Heavy
gold	1929 Dortmund	Heavy
bronze	1930 Stockholm	Heavy
bronze	1931 Prague	Heavy

Georg Gehring (born November 14, 1903 in Frankenthal ; † October 31, 1943 in Stettin ) was a German wrestler from Ludwigshafen am Rhein , who achieved his successes in the Greco-Roman style.

Career

He was of a sporty, athletic build, weighed about 105 kg and was also a good athlete and weightlifter . His international success began in 1921 when he won the European Youth Championship. These successes continued with ups and downs until 1941. He fought all the world class wrestlers of the time and was able to defeat most of them at least once. His fights against the Swedes Carl Westergren and Rudolf Svensson , against the Finn Hjalmar Nyström and against Kurt Hornfischer , Nuremberg and Willi Müller ( Cologne ) wrote wrestling history.

In 1932 Georg Gehring had it in his hands to become Olympic heavyweight champion, Greco-Roman style, in Los Angeles . In one of the preliminary rounds he had there defeated the Swede Carl Westergren, who was considered his toughest rival, on points. In his next fight he lost completely surprisingly against the Czech Josef Urban , whom he had already defeated on several occasions, and thus slipped to the ungrateful 4th place. At the opening ceremony of the games he was the flag bearer of the German team.

From 1933 he was in the shadow of Kurt Hornfischer from Nuremberg in Germany. In 1936, however, he managed to qualify for the Olympic Games in Berlin in the Greco-Roman style. Since the three-time European champion Hornfischer was expected to have greater profit prospects in this style, Georg Gehring had to compete in Berlin in the free style, which was not so good for him, and only came in 7th place in this style.

Georg Gehring was eleven victorious for the German team in eleven international matches. He died in Szczecin in 1943 at the age of only 39.

International success

year	space	competition	style	Weight class
1925	4th	EM in Milan	GR	Heavy	with a victory over Aleardo Donati, Italy and defeats against Edmond Dame , France a . Raymund Badó , Hungary
1926	1.	EM in Riga	GR	Heavy	with victories over Stefan Dömeny, Hungary , Josef Urban , Czechoslovakia a . Johan Richthoff , Sweden
1928	bronze	OS in Amsterdam	GR	Heavy	with victories over Alejardo Donati, S. de Lafranchi, France, Emil Larsen, Denmark a . Mehmet Çoban , Turkey a . Defeats against Hjalmar Nyström , Finland a . Rudolf Svensson , Sweden
1929	1.	Intern. Tournament in Strasbourg	GR	Heavy	in front of Edmond Dame , France
1929	1.	EM in Dortmund	GR	Heavy	with victories over Nikolaus Hirschl , Austria , de Jong, Netherlands , Hjalmar Nyström u. Rudolf Svensson
1930	3.	EM in Stockholm	GR	Heavy	with a victory over Josef Urban u. Defeats against Johan Richthoff u. Hjalmar Nyström
1931	3.	EM in Prague	GR	Heavy	with victories over Otto Viikberg, Estonia a . Aleardo Donati et al. Losses against Carl Westergren , Sweden a. Hjalmar Nyström
1932	2.	Intern. Tournament in Vienna	GR	Heavy	behind Nikolaus Hirschl, Austria, in front of Josef Klapuch, Czechoslovakia
1932	4th	OS in Los Angeles	GR	Heavy	with victories over Aleardo Donati u. Carl Westergren u. a loss to Josef Urban
1936	7th	OS in Berlin	F.	Heavy	with a victory over Mehmet Çoban u. Defeats against Willi Bürki, Switzerland a . Josef Klapuch , Czechoslovakia
1937	5.	EM in Paris	GR	Heavy	with a victory over Peter Larsen, Denmark a. Defeats against Kristjan Palusalu , Estonia a. Josef Klapuch

German championships

year	space	style	Weight class	Result
1923	2.	GR	Heavy	behind Fritz Eichholz, Oberhausen , before Hinterstoisser, Pirmasens
1925	1.	GR	Heavy	before Karl Döppel , Nuremberg a . Willi Müller , Cologne
1926	1.	GR	Heavy	in front of Ferdinand Muß , Dortmund -Hörde u. Georg Baumann, Munich
1928	1.	GR	Heavy	before Karl Kurbjuhn, Essen a . Schütz, Dortmund
1929	1.	GR	Heavy	before Jakob Köpf, Stuttgart a . Heinrich Lämmermann, Nuremberg
1930	1.	GR	Heavy	before Ferdinand Muß u. Buchner, Koblenz
1931	2.	GR	Heavy	behind Willi Müller, in front of Eugen Lägerler, Stuttgart-Untertürkheim
1932	3.	GR	Heavy	behind Willi Müller u. Kurt Hornfischer , Nuremberg
1933	3.	GR	Heavy	behind Kurt Hornfischer u. W. Kolb, Schifferstadt
1935	2.	GR	Heavy	behind Kurt Hornfischer u. before Beu, Mülheim / Rhein
1935	2.	F.	Heavy	behind Kurt Hornfischer, before Luhrenberg, Mülheim / Ruhr
1936	1.	GR	Heavy	before Kurt Hornfischer u. Eugen Lägeler
1936	3.	F.	Heavy	behind Kurt Hornfischer u. Eugen Lägeler
1937	1.	GR	Heavy	before Kurt Hornfischer u. Willi Liebern , Dortmund

In addition, Georg Gehring was four times German team champion with the SV Siegfried Ludwigshafen relay (1937, 1938, 1940 and 1941)

Explanations

• OS = Olympic Games, EM = European Championship
• GR = Greco-Roman style, F = free style
• Heavy weight, at that time over 87 kg body weight

literature

• Specialist magazines athletics and weight training ,
• Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships , 1976,
• Website of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig,
• Documentation "Hundred Years of Wrestling in Germany" , publisher of the German Wrestling Association, publishing house "Der Ringer", Niedernberg, 1992, pages 84 to 87, 178, 220, 221 u. 231

Web links

• Profile of Georg Gehring at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Georg Gehring in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Georg Gehring in the club history of ASV Ludwigshafen; however, the text is wrong. In 1928 and 1932 he was not an Olympic champion. In 1928 he won a bronze medal and in 1932 he came in 4th place