Heinrich Weber moved with his family from Neumarkt to Heidenheim an der Brenz in Württemberg at an early age . There he turned to wrestling. In 1941 and 1942 he was German youth champion. Then came the war and four years of imprisonment. After his release he soon joined TV Jahn Göppingen , whose team at the time included such good wrestlers as Walter Hahn , Georg Fink and Fritz Bischoff . In 1950 he won his first German championship. In 1951, at the age of 28, he was able to compete in an international championship for the first time. At the Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952 he was played badly by the jury , because at the protest of the Finnish team management his victory over Leo Honkala , Finland , was converted into a defeat by an incompetent jury, who did not want to spoil it with the host. Weber lost the medal he had already won, which went to Honkala. Heinrich Weber, who had meanwhile joined ASV Aalen , ended his career in the early 1960s.
