Fritz Wiene

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Fritz Wiene (* 1916 / 1917 ; † February 2003 ) was a German boxing manager and organizers.

Life

Wiene, who boxed himself as a welterweight at the boxing club Elberfeld , was a fur trader and organized boxing events. In Hamburg he often used the Ernst-Merck-Halle for this . The heavy Viennese, who at times weighed 170 kilograms, relied on entertaining elements at his events to accompany the fights. According to the news magazine Der Spiegel , Wiene alternated “mannequins and boxers in the ring”. His events attracted prominent spectators such as Gustaf Gründgens , Freddy Quinn and Heinz Reincke in December 1960  . He is also credited with inventing dinner boxing, an evening event with boxing matches while the audience is fed. According to the sports information service , Wiene was “a pioneer in the marketing of professional boxing”. The Hamburger Abendblatt described Vienna's business acumen on the occasion of his attempt to get his fighter Jürgen Blin fights in the United States in May 1971 with the words: “Without a doubt, the clever 'fat Fritz' will spin his threads in the next few days and weeks. “Wiene got involved as a functionary in the work of the Association of German Pugilists (VdF), which was re-established in the second half of the 1970s as a counterpart to the Association of German Professional Boxers (BdB) , which was headed by his adversary Theo Wittenbrink .

The boxing journalist Bertram Job wrote in his book Instructions for Use for Boxing that Wiene “had a decisive influence on the German scene from Hamburg from the post-war period to the 1970s”. He carried out 187 boxing events and as a manager looked after a total of 32 professional boxers. His most famous boxers included Jürgen Blin, Hans-Werner Wohlers , Albert Westphal and the Argentine Gregorio Peralta. According to his own statement, Wiene proceeded according to the motto: "I was always out for money, but my people should also earn." At the end of December 1971, he gave his protégé Blin the opportunity to box against Muhammad Ali in Zurich . Before the fight, Wiene successfully defied the Ali camp when he succeeded in carrying out the duel according to European rules and using a Swiss referee instead of a Briton preferred by Ali. After Blin had lost his European championship title in October 1972, Wiene announced his withdrawal from boxing, but did not implement this announcement for the time being, also because Max Schmeling told him that German boxing still needed Wiene.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Hamburger Abendblatt- Hamburg: The boxers mourn Fritz Wiene. February 19, 2003, accessed April 24, 2020 (German).
  2. ↑ a b https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1962/pdf/19620317.pdf/ASV_HAB_19620317_HA_017.pdf
  3. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1971/pdf/19711227.pdf/ASV_HAB_19711227_HA_013.pdf
  4. ↑ Sex in Play - DER SPIEGEL 52/1974. Retrieved April 24, 2020 .
  5. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1960/pdf/19601203.pdf/ASV_HAB_19601203_HA_017.pdf
  6. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1971/pdf/19710512.pdf/ASV_HAB_19710512_HA_038.pdf
  7. ^ Dull abdominal trauma . In: Der Spiegel . No. 26 , 1977, pp. 151-152 ( Online - June 20, 1977 ).
  8. ↑ a b Bertram Job: Instructions for use for boxing . Piper Paperback, 2015, ISBN 978-3-492-27668-9 .
  9. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1962/pdf/19620319.pdf/ASV_HAB_19620319_HA_010.pdf
  10. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1973/pdf/19730920.pdf/ASV_HAB_19730920_HA_023.pdf
  11. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1971/pdf/19711224.pdf/ASV_HAB_19711224_HA_011.pdf
  12. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1971/pdf/19711227.pdf/ASV_HAB_19711227_HA_013.pdf
  13. ↑ No amateurs - DER SPIEGEL 49/1972. Retrieved April 24, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Wiene, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German boxing manager and organizer
DATE OF BIRTH 1916 or 1917
DATE OF DEATH February 2003
Place of death Hamburg