Heinrich Schwarzkopf

Heinrich "Heini" Schwarzkopf (born September 29, 1912 in Koblenz ; † 1998 ) was a German wrestler .

Schwarzkopf got his nickname from his blond hair and boyish appearance. At the age of 15, the ASV athlete Siegfried Koblenz won his first German youth championship in 1927, which was followed by three more by 1930. From 1931 with the active, he first wrestled in the lightweight class, in the Greco-Roman style. In this weight class, Schwarzkopf had tough competition in Eduard Sperling , Dortmund, Wolfgang Ehrl , Munich, Fritz Weikart , Hörde, and Heinrich Nettesheim , Cologne. In 1933 he was German runner-up behind Sperling and in front of Weikart and in 1934 behind Ehrl and in front of Sperling, German champion in 1935 in front of Ehrl and Nettesheim and in 1936 third German champion behind Nettesheim and Ehrl. In free style he was German runner-up in 1935 behind Ehrl, ahead of Weikart. He was nominated as a substitute for the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, but was not used.

In 1937 Schwarzkopf switched to the lower weight class of featherweight and won the German championship in both styles, and again in 1938 in the Greco-Roman style. At the European wrestling championships in Paris in 1937 he won over Kundzins, Latvia, Liverini, Italy, Fecske, Hungary, Einar Karlsson , Sweden, and Kaaremäe, Estonia. Against Kustaa Pihlajamäki , Finland, the best featherweight wrestler at the time, he was narrowly defeated and thus became vice European champion. He was also used at the European Championships in 1937 in free style in Munich. After a victory over Polak, Czechoslovakia, he was defeated by the eventual European champions Ferenc Tóth , Hungary, and again Kustaa Pihlajamäki and finished in fifth place. In the three international battles in which he was used, he remained victorious.

Web links

• Profile of Heinrich Schwarzkopf at the Institute for Applied Training Science