Hans-Werner Wohlers

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Hans-Werner Wohlers boxer
Data
Birth Name Hans-Werner Wohlers
Weight class medium weight
nationality Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany BR Germany
birthday December 11, 1933
place of birth Hamburg , German Empire
Date of death July 24, 2011
Place of death Beckdorf , Germany
Combat Statistics
Struggles 58
Victories 47
Knockout victories 10
Defeats 6th
draw 5

Hans-Werner "Buttje" Wohlers (born December 11,  1933 in Hamburg , † July 24,  2011 in Beckdorf ) was a German boxer . He was German champion in professional boxing ( middleweight ).

Life

Born in Hamburg-Eilbek , Wohlers took part in the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki  . There he defeated the Bulgarian Lubomir Markow in the weight class up to 60 kilograms before he lost in the round of 16 against the Poland Aleksy Antkiewicz. In 1952 he was German runner-up in the class up to 60 kilograms and in 1954 in the class up to 67 kilograms. Among the amateurs, the blonde Hamburger was a "fireworker", wrote the Hamburger Abendblatt .

Wohlers fought his first fight as a professional boxer in July 1955. After 17 wins in a row, he had to be satisfied with a draw in May 1957 in a duel with Jean-Claude Poisson. Wohlers as a boxer speed, a "brilliant technique and the ability to bluff and let an opponent run dry" were ascribed. Critics complained that it lacked the clout.

At the beginning of June 1959 both Wohlers and Gustav “Bubi” Scholz got into the ring on the same fight evening in Hamburg's Ernst-Merck-Halle , but were not yet facing each other, but other opponents. At this point, however, it was already clear that Wohlers would duel Scholz. This fight should actually have taken place in February 1959, but there was a delay due to disagreements among the managers. "The sporting coincidence staged this prelude to the European championship, but also a controlled direction could not have been better," commented the Hamburger Abendblatt on the dress rehearsals of the two at the same event. About a month later he challenged “Bubi” Scholz, who was both German and European middleweight champions at the time. It was the first time that two Germans faced each other in a European Championship fight. The up to then still unbeaten Wohlers gave the title holder a great fight, but fell several times during the duel in the sold-out West Berlin Deutschlandhalle in front of 13,000 spectators and lost on points.

Wohlers fought against André Drille from France around three months after the defeat in the European Championship fight in Hamburg . The Hamburger lost and suffered a defeat for the first time in his career as a professional boxer by Ko Wohlers, who led on points, when he went down in the sixth round, but was saved by the gong. He then started again and attacked bravely, but had to take a heavy body hit from the French in the ninth round, as a result of which he went back on the boards and was counted. Wohlers won his next two fights, in April 1960 he lost in Frankfurt am Main to the Frenchman Louis Trochon by Ko The German had already brought Trochon into great distress, but became inattentive and neglected the cover when he received a left hook from the French who knocked him down. At the end of August 1960 Wohlers fought abroad for the first time, he met Obdulio Nunez from Puerto Rico in Madison Square Garden in New York and lost to a technical knockout in the fifth round.

In April 1961 there was another duel with "Bubi" Scholz. The fight was played in front of 17,000 spectators in Vienna  and ended in a draw after ten rounds. Wohlers, who was coached by Franz Mück and courageously attacked Scholz, fell to the ground shortly before the end, which meant that he gave up the victory he believed to be safe. After Scholz resigned his German championship title, Wohlers got the opportunity in December 1961 to fight for the championship against his former training mate Manfred Hass in Hamburg's Ernst-Merck-Halle. Wohlers, who, according to the Hamburger Abendblatt newspaper, “hardly needed to fear an opponent in his weight class in Europe” and was rated as one of the “most talented, but also most unfortunate German professional boxers”, won the fight clearly on points and thus became German middleweight champion . Wohlers was now looked after by Fritz Wiene as a manager, before he had worked with Walter Englert until April 1960 and then with the American Carl Duva .

Wohlers lost his German championship title to Peter Müller in early June 1962 . The fight was fought in front of 4,000 spectators in the Cologne Exhibition Center . Wohlers let himself be carried away to an exchange of blows instead of relying on his technical skills and was badly hit when his coach threw in the towel in the fourth round as a sign of the fight being abandoned. The man from Hamburg received a fee of 25,000 D-Marks for the fight. In October 1962, Wohlers and Müller fought a rematch that lured 6,000 people to Hamburg's Ernst-Merck-Halle. In the second round, Wohlers was knocked to the ground, but recovered. He dealt hard blows to Müller, which he put up with. Wohlers gave up the fight in the fifth round.

Wohlers was then in four fights in the ring, of which he won three and ended one with a draw. His last appearance as a professional boxer was at the end of May 1964.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ https://www.doolia.de/angebote/detail.php?A=76221914e4dffd1677da.2011
  2. ↑ https://www.olympic.org/hans-werner-wohlers
  3. ↑ http://amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Championships/OlympicGames1952.html
  4. ↑ http://amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Nationalchamps/FRG1952.html
  5. ↑ http://amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Nationalchamps/FRG1954.html
  6. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1955/pdf/19550723.pdf/ASV_HAB_19550723_HA_017.pdf
  7. ↑ a b c BoxRec: Hans Werner Wohlers. Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
  8. ↑ a b https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1959/pdf/19590702.pdf/ASV_HAB_19590702_HA_013.pdf
  9. ↑ a b https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1959/pdf/19591003.pdf/ASV_HAB_19591003_HA_017.pdf
  10. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt: Scholz and Wohlers clear co-winners. June 6, 1959, accessed April 25, 2020 .
  11. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1959/pdf/19590706.pdf/ASV_HAB_19590706_HA_006.pdf
  12. ↑ https://www.filmothek.bundesarchiv.de/video/586389?q=&xf%5B0%5D=CustomPlace&xo%5B0%5D=EQUALS&xv%5B0%5D=Cuxhaven&set_lang=de
  13. ↑ a b https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1960/pdf/19600411.pdf/ASV_HAB_19600411_HA_014.pdf
  14. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1960/pdf/19600826.pdf/ASV_HAB_19600826_HA_010.pdf
  15. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1961/pdf/19610410.pdf/ASV_HAB_19610410_HA_015.pdf
  16. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1961/pdf/19611214.pdf/ASV_HAB_19611214_HA_009.pdf
  17. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1960/pdf/19601201.pdf/ASV_HAB_19601201_HA_016.pdf
  18. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1961/pdf/19611216.pdf/ASV_HAB_19611216_HA_015.pdf
  19. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1962/pdf/19620319.pdf/ASV_HAB_19620319_HA_010.pdf
  20. ↑ https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/211126758/
  21. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1962/pdf/19620602.pdf/ASV_HAB_19620602_HA_019.pdf
  22. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1962/pdf/19621006.pdf/ASV_HAB_19621006_HA_017.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Wohlers, Hans-Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wohlers, Buttje (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German boxer
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 2011
Place of death Beckdorf