Karl Bierwirth

Karl Bierwirth (born September 24, 1907 in Essen , † May 3, 1955 in Bonn ) was a German weightlifter .

Career

The son of a cream wholesaler began lifting weights at the boxing club Siegfried 26 Essen in 1926. After only two years he was able to represent Germany at the Olympic Games in Amsterdam , where he finished 9th with 315 kg in the Olympic three-way fight. Until the end of the 1930s he was one of the top German and European weightlifters. He was a specialist in one-armed pushing left and in 1930 he achieved a world record of 100 kg in this discipline, which was only improved 18 years later by the Russian Ivan Maltsev. With Siegfried Essen and the VKSA Essen 88, to which he had switched, he won the German team championship six times. In 1932 he qualified for the Olympic Games in Los Angeles with achievements that were expected to win a medal . Due to financial bottlenecks in the association, he could not take part in the games.

Karl Bierwirth was nicknamed "Cavalier at the dumbbell" because of his exemplary athletic posture and his elegance when lifting weights. The self-employed businessman who owned a large dairy farm died of a brain tumor at the age of 48 . He was buried in the southwest cemetery in Essen .

International success

OS = Olympic Games, EM = European Championships, HS = light heavyweight, S = heavyweight, OD = Olympic triathlon, consisting of two-armed tearing, pushing and pushing, FK = pentathlon, consisting of Olympic triathlon and one-armed tearing and pushing.

• 1928, 9th place , OS in Amsterdam , OD, HS, with 315 kg, winner was Sayed Nosseir , Egypt , 355 kg, ahead of Louis Hostin , France , 352.5 kg;
• 1929, 3rd place , EM in Vienna , OD, HS, with 335 (97.5, 105.0, 132.5) kg, behind Jakob Vogt , Germany , 350.0 (100.0, 107.5, 142.5) kg and Václav Pšenička , Czechoslovakia , 347.5 ( 102.5, 105.0, 140.0) kg;
• 1930, 5th place , EM in Munich , OD, HS, with 335 kg, behind Hostin, 350 (100.0, 110.0, 140.0) kg, Vogt, 340 (105.0, 100.0, 135.0) kg, Josef Zeman , Austria, 340 ( 90.0, 107.5, 142.5) kg and Pšenička, 337.5 kg;
• 1931, 5th place , EM in Luxembourg , OD, HS, with 332.5 kg, behind Hussein, Egypt, 357.5 (100.0, 112.5, 145.0) kg, Nikolaus Scheitler , Luxembourg, 350 (102.5, 110.0, 137.5) kg, Svend Olsen , Denmark , 342.5 (97.5, 105.0, 140.0) kg and Franz Hirn , Austria, 342.5 kg;
• 1933, 3rd place , EM in Essen , with 485 (70.0, 80.0, 95.0, 105.0, 135.0) kg, FK, HS, behind Scheitler, 497.5 (82.5, 80.0, 97.5, 105.0, 132.5) kg and Vogt, 495 (80.0, 80.0, 102.5, 100.0, 132.5) kg

German championships

• 1927, 2nd place in Nuremberg , OD, HS, with 315 kg, behind Vogt, Ochtenburg , 330 kg,
• 1928, 2nd place in Koblenz , OD, HS, with 320 kg, behind Vogt, 335 kg,
• 1929, 2nd place in Villingen , FK, HS, with 500 kg, behind Vogt, 507.5 kg,
• 1930, 2nd place in Breslau , OD, HS, with 332.5 kg, behind Vogt, 340 kg,
• 1931, 1st place in Schwenningen , OD, HS, with 332.5 kg, in front of Anton Gietl , Munich , 332.5 kg,
• 1932, 2nd place in Dortmund , OD, HS, with 340 kg, behind Vogt, 360 kg,
• 1933, 2nd place in Munich, FK, HS, with 495 kg, behind Richard Leopold , Erfurt , 495 kg,
• 1934, 3rd place in Nuremberg, FK, S, with 537.5 kg, behind Paul Wahl , Möhringen , 545 kg and Josef Straßberger , Munich, 540 kg,
• 1936, 3rd place in Essen, OD, HS, with 352.5 kg, behind Eugen Deutsch , Augsburg , 362.5 kg,
• 1937, 3rd place, OD, HS, with 347.5 kg, behind Gietl, 360 kg and Leopold, 347.5 kg

swell

• Erwin Dickhoff: Essen heads. Who was what Bacht, Essen 1985, ISBN 3-87034-037-1 .