Karlheinz Guder

Karl-Heinz Guder
Data
Birth Name	Karlheinz Guder
Weight class	Welterweight
nationality	German , US-American
birthday	June 10, 1934
place of birth	Gelsenkirchen
Date of death	October 28, 1969
Place of death	Placentia , California
Combat Statistics
Struggles	51
Victories	25th
Knockout victories	19th
Defeats	21st
draw	5

Karlheinz Guder , also spelled Karl-Heinz , (born June 10, 1934 in Gelsenkirchen , † October 28, 1969 in Placentia , California ) was a German-American boxer and criminal.

Life

After attending primary school , Karlheinz Guder worked as a fitter and bricklayer. Guder was considered a natural boxing talent. At the age of 15 he began actively boxing and, according to his own statements, had about 150 amateur fights in the weight classes from bantam to light middleweight by 1954 . Later claims that Karlheinz Guder had a German championship title are incorrect, as is the allegation that he participated as a boxer in the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki . Guder was never a member of the German Olympic team.

In 1954, the 20-year-old Guder acquired a professional boxer license. From 1955 he was represented by boxing manager Riethmüller ( Sportterrassen Riethmüller Essen), and by May 1957 he had completed 22 professional fights in the welter and middleweight division in Germany and the Netherlands , of which he won 18, including 13 by knockout. His opponents included Erich Walter , Leo Starosch and Harko Kokmeijer .

In 1957 Karlheinz Guder went to the USA . There he was initially represented by the manager and coaching duo Al Bachmann and Gunther Duhn , and later by the glamorous Baron Henry von Stumme (who was neither a baron nor a noble). Guder, who was considered a "rough, aggressive bat", played in America until March 1961 27 fights, of which he lost 18 and was only able to win 6. He boxed, among other things, against the later welterweight champion Don Jordan and Gaspar Ortega . In 1961, Guder, who is said to have earned around $ 200,000 as a boxer by then, received American citizenship . After a chain of 10 defeats and a draw, the 26-year-old was burned in the American boxing scene, his career was at the end.

From 1961 Karlheinz Guder stayed afloat in the USA as a trainer and sparring partner . The founding of a company with boxer Norbert Grupe failed because the American authorities withdrew their license. Guder often took on changing jobs, as a bricklayer, unskilled worker, machinist and even as a bank clerk. Like many boxers of the time, he had contact with the criminal milieu. Nothing is known about Guder’s crimes up to 1957. His American FBI card, however, contains 18 entries of criminal acts up to 1966, including "attack with a deadly weapon" and several robberies. After robbing a bar in Los Angeles in June 1966, Guder was arrested but released on bail. To avoid prosecution, he fled to Paris .

After brief stays in various major European cities, Karlheinz Guder returned to Germany penniless in autumn 1966. In November / December 1966 he was the sparring partner of Willy Quatuor and Norbert Grupe in Berlin and tried his own comeback as a boxer, but had to give up after two fights. In order to raise money, he cracked a machine in Minden with an accomplice on December 17, 1966 , but was immediately arrested and sentenced to three months in prison for this in February 1967. The punishment was considered by the pre-trial detention is serving. But just a week later Guder was arrested again for robbing wages and sentenced to eight months in prison in May 1967. Since it against the judgment revision lodged, he was up to the decision on the application of any offense. On July 5, 1967, Guder and two accomplices attacked the Sparkasse in Gohfeld -Wittel, stealing 19,500 DM. Guder, who lived in a stolen caravan on a campsite near Gütersloh , was arrested the next day when, while hitchhiking, he stopped a civilian police vehicle. In December 1967 he was sentenced to a total sentence of seven and a half years in prison by the Second Large Criminal Chamber of the Bielefeld Regional Court . In June 1968, Guder's application for a revision was rejected as unfounded by the 4th Criminal Division of the Federal Court of Justice . His application to retrial , filed in August 1968, was rejected.

Karlheinz Guder was sent to Remscheid-Lüttringhausen prison to serve his sentence . On January 20, 1969, he broke out there with a fellow prisoner. Provided by unknown accomplices with a getaway vehicle, money and false papers, Guder fled via London to California, where, as a naturalized American, he was safe from extradition to Germany. Neither the German criminal police, the magazine “ Stern ” nor the FBI were able to determine his whereabouts. At the end of October 1969, the 35-year-old was shot four times in a robbery on a bar owner in southern California and died. Karlheinz Guder was buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) .

literature

• Gerhard Feix : Death came in the mail. From the history of the BRD Kripo. Berlin (East): Das neue Berlin, 1979, 4th edition, 1988 ISBN 3-360-00197-4

Web links

• Autograph card from Karl-Heinz Guder (no year)
• Battle list Karl Heinz Guder on boxrec.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Karlheinz Guder in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved March 3, 2016.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Ex-boxer Slain by Barkeep. In: Independent ( Long Beach ) v. October 29, 1969, p. 3.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Gerhard Feix: The boxing champion. In: Ders .: Death came in the mail. From the history of the BRD Kripo. Berlin (East): Das neue Berlin, 4th ed. 1988, pp. 226–236.
4. ^ Montano, Guder Battle Tonight. In: Tucson Daily Citizen v. June 13, 1960, p. 35.
5. ↑ z. B. in Bout Scheduled. In: The Spokesman Review v. September 26, 1959, p. 11.
6. ↑ Germany at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games on sports-reference.com (accessed July 17, 2014).
7. ↑ ^{a b c} Karl Heinz Guder battle list on boxrec.com (accessed on July 17, 2014).
8. ↑ Autograph card  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by Karl-Heinz Guder with mention of Bachmann / Duhn (no year); Photo ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. with von Stumme and Guder (no year) (both accessed on July 17, 2014).   
9. ^ Ansonia Police Card Lists Two Rematches. In: Sunday Herald ( Bridgeport, Conn. ) V. July 14, 1957, p. 21.
10. ↑ Feature Top Ten Rounder. In: The California Eagle v. June 5, 1958, p. 9.