Fritz Weikart

Fritz Weikart (* 1912 in Berghofen ; † unknown) was a German wrestler .

Career

Fritz Weikart grew up in Dortmund and began as a teenager when AC (Athletes Club) Hoerde 04 with the rings . From 1931 he was one of the best German lightweight wrestlers in Greco-Roman and free style.

In his career, Fritz Weikart was German individual champion twice: in 1937 in the Greco-Roman style in the lightweight and 1944 in the free style in the featherweight. Fritz Weikart was also an extremely reliable team wrestler. With his club, AC Hörde 04 , he won the title of German team champion in 1931, 1933 and 1934.

Because of the strong domestic competition, it is worth remembering Eduard Sperling , Wolfgang Ehrl , Heinrich Schwarzkopf and Heinrich Nettesheim , Fritz Weikart could only start once in an international championship, the European championship in Greco-Roman. Style in Paris in 1937 . He won the bronze medal there with four victories . Actually, after beating the two-time Olympic champion Lauri Koskela from Finland, he was already on the way to the European title when he scored points in his last fight against the Swede Herbert Olofsson , hampered by a thumb injury that he sustained in the fight against Koskela lost and Koskela won before Olofsson and Weikart.

Although he was a soldier for many years, Fritz Weikart survived the Second World War and was a member of the AC Hörde 04 team until the early 1950s.

International success

(EM = European Championship, F = free style, GR = Greco-Roman style, Fe = featherweight, Le = lightweight, at that time up to 61 kg or 66 kg body weight)

• 1934, 2nd place , intern. Tournament in Dortmund , GR, Le, behind Eduard Sperling , Germany and in front of Aarne Reini , Finland ;
• 1937, 3rd place , EM in Paris , GR, Le, with victories over Luigi di Filippo, Italy , Abraham Kurland , Denmark , Dragomir Borlovan, Romania a . Lauri Koskela , Finland a . a loss to Herbert Olofsson , Sweden

German championships

• 1932, 3rd place, GR, Le, behind Eduard Sperling , Dortmund a . Jenö Nemeth, Cologne- Mulheim,
• 1933, 3rd place, GR, Le, behind Eduard Sperling u. Heinrich Schwarzkopf , Koblenz ,
• 1934, 3rd place, F, Le, behind Eduard Sperling and Wolfgang Ehrl , Munich ,
• 1935, 3rd place, F, Le, behind Wolfgang Ehrl and Heinrich Schwarzkopf,
• 1936, 3rd place, F, Le, behind Heinrich Nettesheim , Cologne and Sebastian Hering , Munich,
• 1937, 1st place, GR, Le, in front of Heinrich Nettesheim a. Leo Grahli, Essen,
• 1943, 2nd place, F, Fe, behind Ferdinand Schmitz , Cologne and in front of Georg Böhm, Bamberg ,
• 1944, 1st place, F, Fe, ahead of Fritz Bischoff , Dortmund and Karl Heßberger, Dettingen

swell

• The specialist magazine Athletik from 1931 to 1936 and the specialist magazine Kraftsport from 1937
• Hundred years of wrestling in Germany , Der Ringer publishing house , Niedernberg , 1991, pages 205, 214, 225 u. 226

Web links

• Profile of Fritz Weikart at the Institute for Applied Training Science