Herbert Nuremberg

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Herbert Nürnberg (born July 16, 1914 in Kiel ; † June 24, 1995 ) was a German boxer and restaurateur. As an amateur boxer, he was European lightweight champion in 1937 and 1939.

Nuremberg won the German Amateur Lightweight Championship four times (1937, 1940, 1941 and 1942) and three times he reached second place (1939, 1943 and 1944). He won the international tournament in Berlin in 1937 and the international meeting in Berlin in 1938. At the European Boxing Championships in Milan in 1937 , he was champion ahead of Nikolai Stepulov from Estonia and Marino Facchin from Italy. In Dublin at the European Boxing Championships in 1939 , he won ahead of Harald Kanepi from Estonia and Zbigniew Kowalski from Poland.

Nuremberg represented Germany and Europe in many international competitions. In the match between Europe and USA he won twice in Chicago and Kansas City in 1937, and lost in Chicago in 1938. He competed for Germany against Italy, Hungary, Ireland, England, Austria, Poland, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Bohemia and Moravia , Slovakia, Croatia and Switzerland.

After the Second World War , he started a professional boxing career in October 1945. By the end of his career in 1951, Nuremberg had played 74 fights, of which he won 51, 25 of which by knockout. In Hamburg he became known as the host of the neighborhood pub Zum Goldenen Handschuh , which he opened in 1953.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. The hours of the Earthlings
  2. http://amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Nationalchamps/Germany1920_1948.html
  3. http://amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Tournaments/Berlin1937.html
  4. http://amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Tournaments/Berlin1938.html
  5. http://amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Championships/EuropeanChampionships1937.html
  6. http://amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Championships/EuropeanChampionships1939.html
  7. http://www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/DualsLeague/1937/DualUSA_Europe.html
  8. http://amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/DualsLeague/1938/DualUSA_Europe.html
  9. http://www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/DualsLeague/duals_index.html