Ewald Tauer

Ewald Tauer (born June 8, 1941 in Munich ; † November 2017 there ) was a German wrestler . He was the bronze medal winner at the 1962 Featherweight Free Style World Championships.

Career

Ewald Tauer grew up in Munich . He comes from a family of wrestlers, as his father Ewald Tauer sen. was German champion in free style in the welterweight division in 1943. Like his father, he started for ESV Sportfreunde Neuaubing , a Munich sports club, and at the age of 14 he became German youth champion in the free style in 1955 in the class up to 40 kg body weight, which he won in 1959 in Schorndorf in the German youth championship in Greece. roman Style followed in the class up to 57 kg body weight. As early as 1960, Tauer, who learned the butcher's trade in the business of the father of his Neuaubingen teammate Gottlieb Neumair , won his first German bantamweight championship among senior citizens. In Greco-Roman In style he became German runner-up in the bantamweight division behind Heinz Heuser from Dettingen in the same year .

In the all-German Olympic elimination for the 1960 Games in Rome , Ewald started in both styles. While he took 2nd place behind Fred Kämmerer from Halle (Saale) in free style, surprisingly he prevailed in Greco-Roman style against Lothar Fischer from Leuna and Heinz Heuser, third in the 1958 World Cup . At the Olympic Games he held up well, but ultimately had to pay tribute to his inexperience on the international wrestling mat and ended up in 13th place with just one win.

Ewald made his second appearance in an international championship at the 1962 World Cup in Toledo / USA ; he started here in both styles in featherweight. In the free style he achieved the greatest success of his short career, because he won the World Cup bronze medal. He also showed good fights in the Greco-Roman style and came in 8th place.

In the next few years, Ewald Tauer did not manage to qualify for international championships. From 1965, although only 24 years old, he only started in team fights for his club "Sportfreunde" Neuaubing.

Ewald Tauer died in November 2017 and was buried on November 30, 2017 in Munich.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, F = free style, GR = Greco-Roman style, Ba = bantam weight, Fe = featherweight, at that time up to 57 kg or 63 kg body weight)

• 1960, 13th place , OS in Rome , GR, Ba, with a victory over Jon Tveiten , Norway a . Losses against Gilbert Dubier , France a . Michel Nakouzi , Lebanon ;

• 1962, 3rd place , World Cup in Toledo / USA , F, Fe, with a victory over Alexander Geanta, Romania , a draw against Stefanos Ioannidis, Greece and others. despite defeats against Mohammad Khadem, Iran , Frederik Mattehus, South Africa etc. Osamu Watanabe , Japan ;

• 1962, 8th place, WM in Toledo / USA, GR, Fe, with victories over Hamid Mansoor Mustafa, Egypt a . Hector Maldonado, Argentina a . Defeats against Imre Polyák , Hungary a . Ivan Ivanov, Bulgaria

International battles

• 1960, USSR against FRG , GR, Ba, point defeat against Amari Egadze ,
• 1960, USSR against FRG, GR, Ba, point defeat against Boris Gurewitsch ,
• 1960, USSR against FRG, GR, Ba, point defeat against Wladlen Trostjanski ,
• 1962, Poland against FRG, F, Fe, point defeat against Zurawsky,
• 1962, Poland against FRG, F, Fe, draw against Najmarek,
• 1963, Sweden against FRG, GR, Fe, point defeat against Olsson,
• 1963, Sweden against FRG, GR, Fe, draw against Lars Andersson,
• 1963, FRG against Switzerland , GR, Fe, points victory over Sperisen

Olympic qualification tournaments

• 1960, 1st place , GR, Ba, ahead of Lothar Fischer (wrestler), Leuna , Heinz Heuser , Dettingen u. Heppner, Neubrandenburg ,
• 1960, 2nd place , F, Ba, behind Fred Kämmerer , Halle u. before Jürgen Reidel, Leipzig a . Klaus Scherer , Heusweiler

German championships

• 1960, 2nd place, GR, Ba, behind Heinz Heuser, Dettingen u. in front of Klaus Scherer, Heusweiler,
• 1960, 1st place, F, Ba, before Horst Derichs, Bonn a . Klaus Scherer,
• 1961, 2nd place, F, Fe, behind Fritz Schrader , Dortmund -Hörde u. in front of Paul Piefel, Dortmund,
• 1962, 1st place, GR, Fe, in front of Hans-Peter Bauer , Riegelsberg u. Eberhard Fonger, Krefeld ,
• 1962, 2nd place, F, Fe, behind Franz Swoboda, Neuaubing a. in front of Berthold Oßwald, Stuttgart-Münster,
• 1963, 3rd place, GR, Fe, behind Fritz Schrader u. Herbert Widmann, "Armin" Munich,
• 1964, 2nd place, GR, Fe, behind Berthold Oßwald u. before Fritz Schrader

swell

• Div. Issues of the professional journal Athletik from 1955 to 1965,
• Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships, 1976
• 1972 yearbook of the German Wrestling Federation, Athletik-Verlag, Karlsruhe, 1972

Web links

• Profile of Ewald Tauer at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Ewald Tauer in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Ewald Tauer on stadtarchiv.muenchen.de
• Picture of the ESV Sportfreunde Neuaubing team from 1965: Ewald Tauer, standing, far right

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Death in the parish newsletter of the Catholic parish of the Epiphany , 18 November 2017 retrieved 13 January 2018 ( Memento of 13 January 2018 Internet Archive )