Hans Breitenstrater

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Hans Breitenstrater boxer
Hans Breitenstrater
Data
Birth Name Hans Breitenstrater
Weight class Heavyweight
nationality German German
birthday February 9, 1897
place of birth Hecklingen
Date of death January 31, 1972
Combat Statistics
Struggles 98
Victories 66
Knockout victories 54
Defeats 20th
draw 10
No value 2

Hans Breitensträter (born February 9, 1897 in Hecklingen , † January 31, 1972 ) was one of the world's best heavyweight boxers in the 1910s and 1920s .

Life

“Departure ...” in the sleeping car, photo postcard from Alfred Grohs
"The boxer Hans Breitensträter", lithograph after Rudolf Großmann , edited in 1921 by Alfred Flechtheim

Like many other German boxers, Breitenstrater came to boxing in a prisoner-of-war camp on the Isle of Man during the First World War .

He began his professional career in August 1919. Breitensträter became a new type of professional athlete at the time and soon became a star. He was charismatic, blond (called: Blonder Hans ), handsome and well-trained, played the violin, grew orchids and collected plush bears. He boxed an attractive style of attack.

In October 1919 he fought for the first time for the German championship, but still lost on points against defending champion Otto Flint . But just six months later, he won the rematch against Flint by a KO the champion -Sieg.

In 1924 he lost his title to the experienced counter-boxer Paul Samson-Körner . Samson-Körner had knocked him out in a non-title fight in 1922 and was able to beat him again prematurely by a chance hit. In 1925, Breitensträter won the title back with a point win in the third meeting with Samson-Körner . In 1927 he finally lost the title to Rudi Wagener .

Due to the restrictions of the Versailles Treaty , all German athletes were excluded from international competitions until 1924, so that Breitensträter could not box for more important titles during his best years.

In 1925 there was a fight against the much larger, later European champion Paolino Uzcudun in the Berlin Sports Palace . The 15,000 seats were completely sold out eight days earlier. Uzcudun won by KO. This fight was the subject of the first German sports film.

In the course of 1927 he fought twice against Franz Diener , the first fight he lost by knockout, the second encounter was without evaluation. In 1928 he ended his career after the last five defeats in a row.

Posthumously in 1976 the author Hans Breitensträter published an article in the magazine Die Zeit entitled "Should a sportsman marry?"

Fonts

  • Hans Breitensträter, Rudolf Großmann : Boxer , large-format folder with 8 color lithographs in various luxury editions, [Düsseldorf]: Galerie [A.] Flechtheim , 1921.
  • Hans Breitensträter: My fights , Berlin: Eysler, 1923.

Web links

Commons : Hans Breitensträter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Hans Breitensträter in the BoxRec database
  2. ^ Breitenstrater - Paolino. The German master's hardest fight ( Memento of the original from March 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.filmportal.de
  3. Hans Breitensträter Should a sportsman get married? in issue 31 from 1976, digitized in the online archive of the journal Die Zeit .