Hein ten Hoff

Hein ten Hoff
Data
Birth Name	Hein ten Hoff
Weight class	Heavyweight
nationality	German
birthday	November 19, 1919
place of birth	Süddorf / Edewecht
Date of death	June 13, 2003
Place of death	Hamburg
size	1.96 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	43
Victories	32
Knockout victories	28
Defeats	7th
draw	4th

Hein ten Hoff (born November 19, 1919 in Süddorf, Edewecht ; † June 13, 2003 in Hamburg ) was a German boxer and for many years President of the Association of German Professional Boxers (BDB).

Life

"Hein ten Hoff House" in Hamburg-Sasel

Grave site in the Hamburg-Bergstedt cemetery

Hein ten Hoff was born as the son of a Dutch farmer in Süddorf, municipality of Edewecht , where he grew up. Before his birth, the family had moved to Oldenburg and took on German citizenship. In the mid-1930s, ten Hoff, also known as “long Hein” because of his height (1.93–1.98 m, depending on the source), began boxing. During the Second World War , in which he participated as a soldier at the front, he even won the European title.

After the end of the war in 1945 he settled in Hamburg and switched from amateur to professional boxing. Described as a German sports idol of the post-war period with attributes such as “gentleman of the ring”, “artist” or “esthete in the ring”, he contributed significantly to the revival of professional boxing. During the war, he was already training at the Saselbek inn in Hamburg-Sasel with butcher Emil Jung, who later became his temporary manager. In 1947 he married his daughter Franziska Jung and in 1950 took over the restaurant that his wife ran. In 1952 ten Hoff moved with his wife and children to the USA, but returned after he was unable to get to the great fights he had hoped for. In the late 1950s ten Hoff appeared in supporting roles in the episodic thriller A Story from Soho .

After the end of his boxing career, he briefly returned to boxing in the 1960s and was elected as association president, an office that he soon gave up. Ten Hoff was a member of the Freemasons' Association and was accepted into the Zur Brudertreue lodge at Alster No. 805 in 1960 . The one with Max Schmeling befriended th Hoff hired himself more as a restaurateur with a commercial kitchen and restaurant. He lived with his wife in Hamburg-Bergstedt and later in Ohlstedt. Ten Hoff, who fell ill after an accident and last suffered from Parkinson's, died at the age of 83.     

amateur

Hein ten Hoff was already the best German amateur heavyweight boxer at the age of 19. He played a total of 198 fights, of which he lost only seven. In 1940 he became German champion for the first time by defeating Olympic champion Herbert Runge from Wuppertal . In 1944 he repeated this success, again defeating Runge. From 1939 to 1942 he played 20 international matches (18 wins, 1 draw, 1 defeat). In 1942 he became European heavyweight champion through victories over Jozsef Homolya from Hungary , the Italian Gino Latini and the German Richard Grupe.The titles won there were canceled by the AIBA after the war because Germany's opponents were not in the so-called European War Championship . ( European Boxing Championships 1942 ).

Professional career

He fought his first professional fight on September 23, 1945 in Hamburg and his last on August 28, 1955 in Gothenburg . He became German champion and European champion.

On May 28, 1950, he boxed in Mannheim against the then world number one and later world champion Jersey Joe Walcott , USA , and was only barely defeated on points. On April 29, 1951 he was the only German heavyweight to beat Tiger Jones (also Gene (Tiger) Jones ), USA, on points. By defeating the Englishman Jack Gardner on September 23, 1951, he was the first German professional boxer to bring a European championship title to Germany after the Second World War. He suffered severe knockout defeats against Heinz Neuhaus (in the first round) and against the eventual world champion Ingemar Johansson from Sweden .

Championship fights

(EM = European Championship, DM = German Championship, S = Heavyweight)

• 0August 3, 1946 in Hamburg , DM, S, against Walter Neusel , Hamburg, won on points,
• May 10, 1947 in Cologne , DM, S, against Richard Grupe , Hanover , won tko 3rd round,
• July 12, 1947 in Cologne, DM, S, against Jean Kreitz , Aachen , won on points,
• October 15, 1947 in Hamburg, DM, S, against Neusel, won ko 7th round,
• May 16, 1948 in Berlin , DM, S, against Arno Kölblin , Berlin, won knockout 7th round,
• 0September 2, 1948 in Hamburg, DM, S, against Kreitz, Aachen, won ko 4th round,
• 0May 7, 1949 in Düsseldorf , DM, S, against Heinz Seelisch , Kiel , won on points,
• 0June 3, 1949 in Munich , DM, S, against Herbert Runge , Wuppertal , won knockout 7th round,
• September 18, 1949 in Düsseldorf, DM S, against Neusel, won on points,
• 0November 5, 1949 in Hamburg, DM, S, against Adolf Kleinholdermann, Forchheim , won knockout 4th round,
• July 30, 1950 in Berlin, DM S, against Wilson Kohlbrecher , Osnabrück , won knockout 2nd round,
• October 15, 1950 in Dortmund , DM, S, against Heinz Neuhaus , Dortmund, tie,
• September 23, 1951 in Berlin, EM , S, against Jack Gardner , England , won on points,
• January 12, 1952 in Brussels , EM, S, against Karel Sys , Belgium, lost on points,
• July 20, 1952 in Dortmund, EM a. DM, S, against Neuhaus, lost by knockout 1st round.

Web links

• Hein ten Hoff in the BoxRec database

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} NWZ-Online, March 13, 2006, More about the sports idol Hein ten Hoff
2. ↑ ^{a b} Died . In: Der Spiegel . No. 26 , 2003 ( online ).
3. ↑ Everyone turns a thing . In: Der Spiegel . No. 47 , 1948 ( online ).
4. ↑ Hein ten Hoff . In: Der Spiegel . No. 9 , 1950 ( online ).
5. ↑ Ex-European champion Hein ten Hoff turns 80 today .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Hamburger Morgenpost , November 19, 1999  
6. ↑ Hein ten Hoff - boxing star in post-war Germany - turns 80. In: Die Welt , November 17, 1999
7. ↑ Altertal Magazin Issue 02, February 26, 2010 ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.