Hans-Dieter Neidel

Hans-Dieter Neidel (born March 24, 1939 in Stendal ) is a former German boxer. He was a member of the GDR national boxing team from 1957 until his career ended in 1964.

Career

Neidel celebrated his greatest sporting success in 1961 at the European Boxing Championships in Belgrade . As the first boxer of SC Traktor Schwerin , he was there in the final of an international championship. The light middleweight had to give in there but Boris Nikolayevich Lagutin from the Soviet Union by knockout in the third round. In addition, Neidel was GDR team champion in 1957, 1959 and 1960 with the SC Tractor Schwerin. As a single boxer he won the runner-up in the light middleweight division in 1963 and the bronze medal at GDR championships in 1961. As early as 1956 he had won the GDR junior championship for unit Stendal in the light welterweight division , in 1957 he was GDR junior champion in the welterweight division for Lok Stendal . In 1961 he received the GDR sports award Master of Sports . In his international boxing career, Neidel played 59 fights, won 49 and lost 10. In his overall record as a boxer, he played 186 fights, won 161, lost 21, and four fights ended in a draw.

After retiring from active boxing, Neidel worked as a trainer at SC Traktor Schwerin and as a referee . He also practiced his apprenticeship as a chimney sweep in East Berlin . At the end of February 1987 he fled to the Federal Republic of Germany and has lived in Minden ever since .

Web links

• Article Schweriner Boxgeschichte on traktorboxen.de
• Article boxing legends from then and now at schwerin-news.de
• Hans-Dieter Neidel's Facebook page
• Hans-Dieter Neidel in: On the history of amateur boxing in Germany

Individual evidence

1. Neidel's longest fight ( Mindener Tageblatt of July 23, 2011)
2. A boxer becomes the eternally unadjusted ( Stendaler Volksstimme from August 12, 2011)
3. Simply board the interzone train ( Stendaler Volksstimme of December 10, 2013)