Heinz Heuser

Heinz Heuser (* 1928 in Dettingen, now the municipality of Karlstein am Main ) is a former German wrestler . He was a total of five times German bantamweight champion in Greco-Roman style and free style.

Career

Heinz Heuser came to wrestling as a child at SV "Germania" Dettingen through his brother Hugo, who was three years older than him. During the war and the post-war period, it was initially difficult to achieve success beyond the Hessian area, since, for example, there were no German championships in the youth field (youth, juniors) in which Heinz could have started from 1943 to 1948.

At the beginning of the 1950s, Heinz was one of the best Hessian bantamweight wrestlers, who won the Greco-Roman. Style preferred, but also ranked in free style. In 1952 he won the title of German bantamweight champion in Greco-Roman for the first time. Style. Heinz also took part in elimination tournaments for World Championships and Olympic Games several times. In 1955 he won the decisive tournament for the flyweight championship in Karlsruhe , in which he had trained, ahead of Heinrich Weber from Aalen , but was preferred to him by the then national coach Jean Földeák Weber.

In 1960, Heinz Heuser surprised the German wrestling experts when, after a three-year break, he was again German champion in Greco-Roman. Bantamweight style before Ewald Tauer from Munich- Neuaubing became. In the Olympic elimination for the Games in Rome, however, he failed to Tauer and Lothar Fischer from Leuna .

Heinz Heuser, who was a farmer by profession, soon ended his wrestling career.

Success at German championships

(GR = Greco-Roman style, F = free style, Fl = fly weight, Ba = bantam weight, at that time up to 52 kg or 57 kg body weight)

• 1952, 1st place, GR, Ba, in front of Hugo Heuser , Dettingen a . Erich Nietsche, Dresden ,
• 1953, 2nd place, GR, Ba, behind Manfred Spatz , Feudenheim a . in front of Alfons Furtmayr , Schorndorf ,
• 1954, 1st place, GR, Ba, before Karl Ditter , Darmstadt a . Josef Argstatter , Bad Reichenhall ,
• 1955, 1st place, GR, Ba, before Darl Ditter u. Alfons Furtmayr,
• 1955, 1st place, F, Ba, before Herbert Widmann, Munich a . Heinz Adler, Nuremberg ,
• 1956, 3rd place, GR, Ba, behind Alfons Furtmayr u. Werner Schneider, Dortmund ,
• 1957, 3rd place, F, Ba, behind Werner Fink , Hombruch a . Klaus Scherer , Heusweiler ,
• 1960, 1st place, GR, Ba, before Ewald Tauer , Munich-Neuaubing a. Klaus Scherer

Tournament successes

• 1953, 2nd place, World Cup elimination, GR, Ba, behind Hugo Heuser u. in front of Erich Roth, Groß-Zimmer ,
• 1954, 1st place, World Championship elimination, GR, Ba, ahead of Karl Ditter, Darmstadt a. Reinhold Lukes, Zeilsheim ,
• 1955, 3rd place, Adria-Pokal in Pula / Istria , GR, Ba, behind Sznajder, Poland a . Brunner, Austria ,
• 1955, 4th place, World Championship elimination, GR, Ba, behind Werner Schneider, Alfons Furtmayr u. Karl Ditter u. in front of Rolf Schreer, Dortmund,
• 1955, 1st place, World Cup elimination, GR, Fl, ahead of Heinrich Weber , Aalen a . Georg Schwaiger , Bad Reichenhall,
• 1956, 2nd place, Olympic elimination, GR, Ba, behind Hermann Fischer, Thaleischweiler a . before Reinhold Lukes,
• 1956, 6th place, tournament in Heusweiler, GR, Ba, behind Edmond Faure , France , Maurice Faure, France, Andersen, Denmark, Klaus Scherer u. Brunner, Austria,
• 1960, 3rd place, Olympic elimination, GR, Ba, behind Ewald Tauer , Munich-Neuaubing a. Lothar Schneider , Halle (Saale) - Leuna

International battles

• 1955, FRG against Finland , GR, Ba, points victory over Tauno Jaskari ,
• 1955, Romania against FRG, GR, Ba, point defeat against Francisc Horvath

swell

• Athletics magazine from 1950 to 1960