Heinrich Meinhardt

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Heinrich Meinhardt boxer
Data
Birth Name Heinrich Meinhardt
Weight class medium weight
nationality German
birthday April 16, 1936
place of birth Hamburg
Combat Statistics
Struggles 34
Victories 30th
Knockout victories 11
Defeats 3
draw 1

Heinrich "Heini" Meinhardt (born April 16,  1936 in Hamburg ) is a former German boxer .

Life

At the age of ten Meinhardt, whose father had also practiced the sport, started boxing at the Hamburg club BC Eiche. Meinhardt later recalled that his father always urged him not to miss any training. He worked for three years as a coal worker in his father's company, began an apprenticeship as a butcher, which he broke off, and then worked in the port of Hamburg , where he worked as a forklift driver, crane operator and railway clerk. In 1957 Meinhardt, who had meanwhile changed to SV Police within his hometown, became German amateur champion in the weight class up to 71 kilograms.

He fought his first fight as a professional boxer in March 1961 in Kiel . His fight against Klaus Winkler at the beginning of February 1962 in Hamburg's Ernst-Merck-Halle was the first to consist of eight rounds. With this, Meinhardt left "the category of introductory boxers" according to the Hamburger Abendblatt . Meinhardt won the duel with Winkler prematurely and remained victorious in the following fights. After his success over Michel Diouf in December 1962, he was certified to be on his way to becoming a main fighter. The Hamburger had won all of his previous 15 duels as a professional boxer when he was given the opportunity in mid-May 1963 to fight for the vacant German middleweight championship against Manfred Hass, also from Hamburg, in his home town. Meinhardt is the "more elegant boxer" in relation to hatred, but a favorite cannot be identified before the fight, according to the Hamburger Abendblatt in its preliminary report. "Hamburg has a German professional champion again," reported the same newspaper after Meinhardt's point win, which he had won in front of 5000 spectators in the Ernst-Merck-Halle. The new German champion convinced in the fight with a strong right hand, overview and quick stroke sequence.

Meinhardt (left) versus Klaus Stockmann (1963)

At the end of November 1963, Meinhardt, who was certified as having “brilliant technical equipment” as a boxer, met the local Klaus Stockmann in his first title defense in Kiel . Meinhardt got the victory in the Ostseehalle in the ninth round when the ring doctor took the heavily bleeding stick man out of the fight. The fee for the defending champion was 9,000 Deutschmarks. In April 1964, the man from Hamburg , who was looked after by trainer Franz Mück , met the 37-year-old old master Peter Müller in his hometown , who received the higher remuneration for the fight as Meinhardt. The approximately 5000 spectators in the Ernst-Merck-Halle witnessed a reckless Meinhardt, who too often got involved in an exchange of blows with the man from Cologne, who is known for his hardness and lost through knockout in the fifth round. This was also Meinhardt's first defeat as a professional boxer. In 1964 he moved from Hamburg to Trittau , working full-time as an officer in the police administration.

In October 1964 the man from Hamburg boxed for the first time (and for the only time during his professional career) abroad and was defeated by the Swede Bo Högberg in Gothenburg . At the beginning of September 1966 Meinhardt was again in the ring for a title fight, was not in full possession of his powers due to a flu. He was defeated by the young Lothar Stengel . Meinhardt's trainer Franz Mück threw in the towel in the seventh round. It was also Meinhardt's last fight.

As a boxing trainer, he worked for the SV Police for years. In September 2013 he was honored by the association for 65 years of membership.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c Wolfgang Weggen: Heini Meinhardt - lively dances for the 80th birthday. In: BOXWELT.com. April 14, 2016, accessed April 28, 2020 .
  2. ↑ FRG1957. In: amateur-boxing.strefa.pl. Retrieved April 28, 2020 .
  3. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1962/pdf/19620201.pdf/ASV_HAB_19620201_HA_010.pdf
  4. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1962/pdf/19620203.pdf/ASV_HAB_19620203_HA_015.pdf
  5. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1962/pdf/19621208.pdf/ASV_HAB_19621208_HA_017.pdf
  6. ↑ https://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/28293
  7. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1963/pdf/19630516.pdf/ASV_HAB_19630516_HA_005.pdf
  8. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1963/pdf/19630518.pdf/ASV_HAB_19630518_HA_017.pdf
  9. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1963/pdf/19631128.pdf/ASV_HAB_19631128_HA_008.pdf
  10. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1963/pdf/19631130.pdf/ASV_HAB_19631130_HA_017.pdf
  11. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1964/pdf/19640409.pdf/ASV_HAB_19640409_HA_008.pdf
  12. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1964/pdf/19640411.pdf/ASV_HAB_19640411_HA_017.pdf
  13. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1964/pdf/19641010.pdf/ASV_HAB_19641010_HA_010.pdf
  14. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1966/pdf/19660903.pdf/ASV_HAB_19660903_HA_022.pdf
  15. ^ Hamburger Abendblatt: Briefly noted. September 10, 2013, accessed on April 28, 2020 (German).


personal data
SURNAME Meinhardt, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meinhardt, Heini (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German boxer
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg