Bartholomäus Brötzner (Ringer, 1928)
Bartholomäus "Bartl" Brötzner (born February 13, 1928 in Wals , today Wals-Siezenheim , † September 12, 2015 ) was an Austrian wrestler .
career
Bartl Brötzner came to wrestling in 1947 as a 19-year-old indirectly. When he heard that a boxing club had been founded in Salzburg , he intended to join it. During the trial training, the wrestlers of the Salzburger AK 1914 completed their training in the same hall , whereupon the young Walser swapped the boxing ring for the mat and thus started his career as one of the best wrestlers in Austria.
When a few years later the SAK dissolved its section of wrestlers in 1914 and Matthias "Hias" Berger founded the Athletic Club Wals , Brötzner moved to the new club in his home town together with his wrestling brothers. There, despite the worst training conditions - for example, the athletes had to share the mats in an inn with the pets staying there and clean them before use - it soon became its first figurehead.
Brötzner took part in a total of three Olympic Games and achieved excellent results as a pure amateur with fourth and fifth places. During his career, he won the Austrian singles championship ten times and was in the AC Wals championship nine times, with the title fights sometimes even taking place in the Felsenreitschule and the Salzburg Festival Hall.
With the Athletic Club Bad Reichenhall he won the German team championship against Viktoria Eckenheim in 1950 together with Josef Paar , Peter Enzinger and Paul Böhmer . Bartl Brötzner fought a total of around 500 fights by the end of his career in 1960.
As a senior, he worked in later years as a "cameraman" and filmed a number of fights of his successors at AC Wals, with which he also made valuable documentation for the club with his recordings.
His son is also a professional wrestler.
successes
- 3 participation in Olympic Games: 1952 (5th place) , 1956 (4th place) and 1960 (preliminary round)
- 10 × Austrian champion (individual)
- 9 × Austrian team champions with AC Wals
- 1 × German team champion with AC Bad Reichenhall
source
- Joachim Glaser: Salzburg athlete . Verlag Anton Pustet, Salzburg 2001, ISBN 3-7025-0426-5
Individual evidence
- ↑ Party slip (accessed December 1, 2019)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brötzner, Bartholomäus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brötzner, Bartl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian wrestler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 13, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wals , State of Salzburg , Austria (today: Wals-Siezenheim ) |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 12, 2015 |