Heinrich Steinborn
Heinrich Steinborn (March 14, 1894 , † February 9, 1989 in Orlando , Florida ) was a German weightlifter who emigrated to the United States in 1921, where he made a career as a strongman and wrestler .
Life
Heinrich Steinborn grew up near Düsseldorf . During the First World War he was taken prisoner by the British and spent it in Australia . In the camp there he met with strength exercises and weightlifting. Some of the prisoners had made dumbbells out of cinder blocks and hardwood bars with which they exercised. Heinrich Steinborn took a liking to it and made good progress in the POW camp. In 1919 he was released and returned to Germany.
In 1921 Heinrich Steinborn emigrated to the United States. He initially stayed in Philadelphia , where he began a career as a professional strongman. He showed some record performances, especially in the squats. One of his most spectacular shows of strength was a trick with a car . He let himself be run over by a car while lying on his back, holding thick planks on his chest over which the car drove.
In the mid-1920s, Heinrich Steinborn, who called himself Henry and later Milo Steinborn in the United States, turned to freestyle wrestling (catch-as-catch-can wrestling), which he soon specialized in. He stood on the mat for over 30 years and fought countless fights.
Milo Steinborn put on a sensational show at the Chicago World's Fair (folk festival) in 1950. There he lifted a young circus elephant weighing around 400 kg on his back in street clothes.
In 1952, Milo Steinborn, who had meanwhile acquired US citizenship, went to Orlando, Florida and opened the Orange Avenue Gym there . This gym still existed in 2003 in its original equipment from 1952. From Orlando, Milo Steinborn worked as a wrestling promoter for over 25 years after finishing his active time as a wrestler. The most famous wrestler, whom he also managed, was the former heavyweight world champion in professional boxing Primo Carnera .
A son of Heinrich Steinborn, Dick Steinborn, was also a wrestler.
Steinborn maintained its productivity well into old age. At the age of 80, he is said to have squats with a dumbbell weighing 140 kg.
He died in Orlando in 1989 at the age of 95.
Success as a weightlifter
Heinrich Steinborn started as an amateur in 1920 at the German weightlifting championship in Stuttgart . He achieved an excellent result of 535 kg in the pentathlon and took second place in the heavyweight division behind world champion Karl Mörke from Cologne , who scored 557.5 kg and ahead of Hamburg's Edmund Number, who came to 447.5 kg.
The best performances that Heinrich Steinborn achieved as an amateur were 99 kg in one-armed snatch, 120 in two-armed pushing and 158.76 kg in two-armed pushing.
As a professional athlete in the United States, Steinborn performed particularly well in the squats. His record was 251.5 kg.
Career as a wrestler
In the course of his unusually long career as a wrestler, Henry Steinborn played countless fights against known and unknown opponents. The following matches were outstanding:
- 1928 fight in Memphis against eventual world champion Jim Londos , Greece , lost
- 1928 fight in Memphis against Viktor Mühl, lost
- 1930 fight in Atlanta against John Spellman ( Olympic champion 1924 in Paris in light heavyweight, free style), won
- 1930 fight in Atlanta against Jim Londos , lost after 35 minutes
- 1930 fight in Atlanta against Peter Sauer (Ray Steele) for the championship of Georgia , lost
- Won 1930 fight in Atlanta against Paul Harper for the Georgia championship
- 1931 lost to Earl McCready , Canada , in New Haven
- 1932 Fight against Hermann Hickman in Harrisburg , lost
- on May 30, 1933 in Atlanta fight against Jim Londos for the NWA world heavyweight championship, lost after 49 minutes, 30 seconds; Jim Londos had become world champion on June 6, 1930 by defeating Tilsiter Richard Schikat
- Won 1937 fight in Atlanta against George Hagen for the Georgia championship
- 1937 fight in Houston together with Whiskers Savage against Tiger Daula u. Fazul Mohammed a doubles match. This fight was the first worldwide in which four wrestlers faced each other in the ring at the same time (Tag Team Match)
- 1945 Won battle against Sailor Kirilenko in Newark
- 1945 Won fight against Jim Asserati in Brooklyn
- Lost November 7, 1946 in Brooklyn, battle against Primo Carnera , Italy
- June 28, 1950 in Chicago , fight against Primo Carnera, lost
- 1953 Fight in Orlando with his son Dick Steinborn in a tag team match against Pedro Godoyn and Cue Ball Rush
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- Professional magazine Athletik , numbers 10/1950, page 6 and 9/1967, page 22,
- Website "www.oldtimestrongman.com",
- Website "www. Hamiltonfintness, co.uk",
- Website "www.georgianwrestlinghistory, com",
- Website "www.genickbruch.com",
- Website "www.tagmatch.com",
- Website "www.cyberboxingzone.com"
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Steinborn, Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Steinborn, Henry; Steinborn, Milo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German weightlifter and American wrestler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 14, 1894 |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 9, 1989 |
| Place of death | Orlando , Florida |