Ernst Steinig

Ernst Steinig medal table
Wrestler
Germany
European Championship
silver	1925 Milan	feather
bronze	1926 Riga	feather

Ernst Steinig (born January 2, 1900 in Klein Lassowitz ; † unknown) was a German wrestler and two-time medalist at European Championships.

Career

Ernst Steinig grew up in Dortmund and started wrestling there as a teenager. He started for ASV Heros Dortmund and after 1920 developed into an excellent wrestler in the Greco-Roman style. In 1924 he first drew attention to himself when he became German runner-up in the featherweight division in Mannheim . In the same year he also started at the European Championships in Neunkirchen / Saar , where he finished seventh in the featherweight division.

In 1925, the first European championship of the newly organized international wrestling federation took place in Milan . Ernst Steinig, who was nominated for it by the German Wrestling Association (DASV v. 1891), had made enormous progress compared to the previous year and defeated there in the featherweight a. a. also the Swedish master Erik Malmberg . In the final battle, however, he was defeated by the Hungarian Jenő Németh , who then started many years as a guest wrestler for AC Cologne-Mülheim in 1892, on points and became vice European champion.

Ernst also won a medal at the European Championships in Riga in 1926 , the bronze one. Against Erik Malmberg he suffered a defeat this time. He also lost to Voldemar Väli from Estonia , who still had a great career ahead of him.

At the Olympic Games in Amsterdam in 1928 , Ernst won four fights in a row, but then lost again to Voldemar Väli and had to retire due to reaching five points and came in a good fifth place.

In his last participation in an international championship, the European championship in Dortmund, Ernst managed a victory over Olympic champion Kustaa Pihlajamäki from Finland . After another point win over the Austrian Karl Stiedl, he was surprisingly defeated by the Hungarian József Tásnády and ended up on the ungrateful fourth place.

Ernst Steinig then ended his international wrestling career. But he started for his club Heros Dortmund for many years, with whom he became German team champion in 1927 and 1932.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Fe = featherweight, at that time up to 62 kg body weight)

• 1924, 7th place , EM in Neunkirchen / Saar , GR, Fe, winner: Karl Völklein ahead of Gustav Haber and Georg Schunk, all Germany ;
• 1925, 2nd place , EM in Milan , GR, Fe, with victories over Harmath, Hungary , René Rottenfluc , France and Erik Malmberg , Sweden and a defeat against Jenő Németh , Hungary;
• 1926, 3rd place , EM in Riga , GR, Fe, with victories over Kopmans, Latvia and Ambrus, Hungary and defeats to Erik Malmberg and Voldemar Väli , Estonia ;
• 1927, 9th place , EM in Budapest , GR, Fe, with a victory over Ricardo Pizzocaro, Italy and defeats against Eugen Fleischmann, Czechoslovakia and Károly Kárpáti , Hungary;
• 1928, 5th place , OS in Amsterdam , GR, Fe, with victories over Jacques Dillen , Belgium , Ricardo Rey , Argentina , Leon Mazurek , Poland and Aleksanteri Toivola , Finland and one defeat against Voldemar Väli;
• 1929, 4th place , EM in Dortmund , GR, Fe, with victories over Karl Stiedl, Austria and Kustaa Pihlajamäki , Finland and a defeat against József Tásnády , Hungary

German championships

• 1924, 2nd place, GR, Fe, behind Gustav Paul, Netzschkau and in front of Gustav Haber, Pirmasens ,
• 1925, 1st place, GR, Fe, in front of Arthur Zirkel, Pirmasens and Bröschel, Mülheim an der Ruhr ,
• 1926, 1st place, GR, Fe, ahead of Eduard Sperling , Dortmund and Emil Paul, Netzschkau

swell

• various issues of the specialist magazine " Athletik " from 1929 to 1932,
• 1972 yearbook of the German Wrestling Association, Athletik-Verlag Karlsruhe, 1972
• Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships, 1976

Web links

• Profile of Ernst Steinig at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Ernst Steinig in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )