Fritz Schäfer

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Fritz Schäfer
medal table

Wrestler

Germany
Olympic games
silver 1936 Berlin Welter Greco
European Championship
silver 1935 Copenhagen Welter Greco
silver 1935 Brussels World freestyle
gold 1937 Paris Welter Greco
gold 1937 Munich World freestyle
gold 1938 Tallinn Welter Greco
gold 1939 Oslo Welter Greco

Fritz Schäfer (born September 7, 1912 in Pirmasens , † October 15, 1973 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) was a German wrestler in both styles (Greco-Roman and freestyle).

Life

Fritz Schäfer started wrestling in the school department of the AK Pirmasens at the age of eight. He learned the trade of a butcher. The team of the AK Pirmasens, which at that time belonged to such well-known wrestlers as Paul Böhmer and Emil Poganiatz , became German team champions in 1929. In the preliminary rounds, Schäfer was used several times at the age of 18 and defeated the Olympic bantamweight champion of 1928, Kurt Leucht from Nuremberg , on points at the featherweight division , thus showing his great wrestling talent. In 1930 he became German youth champion in the class up to 65 kg body weight. Fritz Schäfer, already ambitious and unsteady at that time, wanted a regular place in a team and therefore moved to Zweibrücken, but at the same time agreed to VfK Schifferstadt . A suspension by the association was the result. Ultimately, he wrestled for a few years at VfK Schifferstadt to switch to SC Siegfried Ludwigshafen in 1935 and become German team champion with this club from 1937 to 1941.

During the war, Schäfer worked as a butcher in an army slaughterhouse in France . At the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the French , volunteered for the French Foreign Legion and spent the years 1945 to 1951 in North Africa and Indochina . In 1951 he was released, married for the second time in France and stayed in France. In Germany he is considered lost. In 1972 he was found by former Ludwigshafen wrestling comrades, completely impoverished, and, meanwhile widowed for the second time, returned to Ludwigshafen am Rhein , where he died on October 15, 1973.

International success

year space competition style Weight class
1934 4th EM in Rome GR Welter with victories over Mihály Matura , Hungary , Samec, Czechoslovakia, Jensen, Denmark, Dahl, Norway and a point defeat against Gunnar Glans , Sweden
1935 2. EM in Copenhagen GR Welter with victories over Antti Mäki , Finland, Hametner, Austria, Zvonar, Czechoslovakia and one point defeat against Rudolf Svedberg , Sweden
1935 2. EM in Brussels F. Welter with victories over Vanderveeken, Belgium , art, Czechoslovakia , Angst, Switzerland, Lubat, France and one defeat against Stig Andersson , Sweden
1936 2. Intern. Tournament in Berlin Welter behind Rudolf Svedberg
1936 silver OS in Berlin GR Welter with victories over Edgar Puusepp , Estonia, de Feu, Belgium, Fischer, Yugoslavia , Tozzi, Italy, Eino Virtanen , Finland and a point defeat against Rudolf Svedberg
1937 1. EM Paris GR Welter with victories over Larsen, Norway , Zvonar, Czechoslovakia, Massop, Netherlands , Jean Jourlin, France and Edgar Puusepp, Estonia
1937 1. EM in Munich F. Welter with victories over Podzemsky, Czechoslovakia, Sovari, Hungary, Antti Mäki and Willy Angst , Switzerland
1938 1. EM in Tallinn GR Welter with victories over Rudolf Svedberg, Larsen, Arican, Turkey , Edgar Puusepp and Antti Mäki
1939 1. EM in Oslo GR Welter with victories over Edgar Puusepp , Eino Virtanen and Rudolf Svedberg

Schäfer also won 25 victories in 31 international matches.

German championships

year space Weight class style Results
1931 3. Light GR behind Eduard Sperling , Dortmund and Adolf Krehl, Untertürkheim
1934 1. Welter GR before Georg Wellhöfer, Nuremberg and Eugen Hässler , Tuttlingen
1935 1. Welter GR before Eckweiler, Büdesheim and Theo Hilgert, Koblenz
1935 1. Welter F. before Josef Lehner, Nuremberg and Adler, Freising
1937 1. Welter GR before Georg Fink , Stuttgart and Staub, Duisburg
1937 2. Welter F. behind Josef Paar , Bad Reichenhall , in front of Josef Lehner
1938 1. Welter GR before Georg Fink and Eckweiler
1938 1. medium F. before Ludwig Schweickert , Berlin and Albert Laudien, Wilhelmshaven
1939 1. Welter GR before Märker, Hammerstein and Georg Fink
1940 1. Welter GR before Gustav Gocke , Dortmund and Georg Fink
1940 1. Welter F. before Sebastian Hering , Munich and Schenk, Stuttgart
1942 1. Welter GR before Gustav Gocke and Werner Härtling , Wilhelmshaven
1942 1. Welter F. before Werner Härtling and Erich Wicke
1943 2. medium GR behind Gustav Gocke, in front of Herbert Krauskopf
1943 1. medium F. before Albert Laudien and Gustav Gocke

Explanations

  • OS = Olympic Games, EM = European Championship
  • GR = Greco-Roman style, F = freestyle
  • Lightweight, back then up to 66 kg, welter weight up to 72 kg and middle weight up to 79 kg body weight

swell

  • Professional magazines athletics from the years 1929 to 1936 a. Weight training from 1937 to 1939
  • Hundred years of wrestling in Germany , Der Ringer publishing house , Niedernberg , pages 105 to 109, 196, 214, 215, 217, 227 u. 228

literature

  • Wolfgang Kauer: Outside of Africa, housed with dogs. Why the exceptional athlete Fritz "Spitzer" Schäfer was considered missing over 30 years ago. ( Flashback; 1. ) In: Die Rheinpfalz . [Partial edition:] Ludwigshafener Rundschau, No. 275 of August 6, 2005, local sport. ZDB -ID 209783-7 .

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personal data
SURNAME Shepherd, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Pirmasens
DATE OF DEATH 15th October 1973
Place of death Ludwigshafen am Rhein