Fritz Braun

Fritz Bräun medal table
Wrestling
Germany
European Championship
gold	1924 Neunkirchen	medium
gold	1925 Milan	medium
silver	1926 Riga	medium

Fritz Bräun (born December 4, 1903 in Fürth , Bavaria , † January 10, 1982 in Idar-Oberstein ) was a German wrestler .

Career

Fritz Bräun began wrestling at the age of 10 in Fürth and later also did weightlifting . Bräun reached the top German class at the age of 18 when he became German champion for the first time in 1921. In 1924 he moved to ASV Kreuznach , with whose team he became German team champions in 1925 and 1928. At that time the Kreuznachers were already practicing something that otherwise only became common in the 1980s, they brought top wrestlers from all over Europe into their team. So z. For example the Hungarian Olympic champion Lajos Keresztes , with Jozsef Tasnady another Hungarian and with Bräun and Willi Müller from Cologne two German champions. Bräun also achieved international success, was twice European champion, but was never able to qualify for the Olympic Games. In 1928 he failed in the middleweight division to Hermann Simon from Koblenz and in 1932 in the light heavyweight division to Heinrich Heitmann, Hörde and Robert Rupp, Mannheim. At the European Championships in 1925 and 1926 he beat the later Olympic champions Väinö Kokkinen and Ivar Johansson .

During his wrestling career, Bräun was Reich trainer in DASV from 1931 to 1934 and then assistant to Reich trainer Jean Földeák . After 1945 he was temporarily the coach of the Saarland wrestling association. He was also a sports teacher in Idar-Oberstein.

International success

year	space	competition	style	Weight class	Results
1923	1.	Intern. Exhibition cup in Vienna	GR	medium	before Peter Stockbauer and Franz Drahozal, both Austria and Adolf Rieger , Germany
1924	1.	EM in Neunkirchen (Saar)	GR	medium	before Heinrich Stiefel, Julius Conter, Gustav Engel and Hugo Mohne, all Germany
1925	1.	EM in Milan	GR	medium	with victories over Radovan Nikolić, Yugoslavia , Mario Gruppioni , Italy , and Väinö Kokkinen , Finland
1925	2.	Intern. Tournament in Budapest	GR	medium	behind Istvan Szalay, in front of Dr. Sandor Laczka, both Hungarians
1926	2.	EM in Riga	GR	medium	with victories over Friedrich Kranberg, Estonia , László Papp , Hungary , Ivar Johansson , Sweden , and one defeat against Johannes Jakobsen , Denmark
1927	1.	Intern. Tournament in Helsinki	GR	medium	ahead of Arvo Haavisto and Poikkala, both Finland
1927	1.	Intern. Tournament in Bologna	GR	Semi-difficult	before R. Compagnoli, Italy
1927	4th	EM in Budapest	GR	medium	with victories over Ragnar Bohm, Sweden, and Federico Malossi, Italy, and defeats against László Papp and František Hála , Czechoslovakia
1927	2.	Intern. Tournament in Riga	GR	medium	behind Albert Kusnets , Estonia, before Väinö Kokkinen
1928	1.	Intern. Tournament in Wiborg	GR	Semi-difficult	before Emil Wecksten and Friman, both Finland

German championships

• 1921, 1st place, GR, Wed, in front of Richard Falkner , Berlin , and Fritz Schürmann, Mülheim / Rhein;
• 1922, 2nd place, GR, Wed, behind Viktor Fischer , Cologne , and in front of Fritz Eichblatt, Mainz ;
• 1923, 4th place, GR, Wed, behind Viktor Fischer, Fritz Schürmann and Adolf Rieger, Berlin, in front of Heinrich Stiefel
• 1924, 1st place, GR, Wed, ahead of Heinrich Stiefel, Ludwigshafen am Rhein , and W. Link, Weingarten ;
• 1925, 1st place, GR, Wed, ahead of Schürmann and Julius Maier , Cannstatt ;
• 1928, 3rd place, GR, Wed, behind Eduard Krämer , Duisburg , and Jean Földeák , Hamburg ;
• 1931, 1st place, GR, Hs, ahead of Fritz Ertle, Nuremberg , and Heinrich Heitmann, Hörde ;
• 1932, 2nd place, GR, Hs, behind Heitmann and in front of Julius Ließfeld, Dessau;
• 1934, 2nd place, F, Hs, behind Herbert Audersch, Koblenz, and in front of Edmund Meier, Wiesental

Web links

• Profile of Fritz Bräun at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Photos by Fritz Bräun in the VfL Bad Kreuznach chronicle