Kurt toe
Kurt Zehe (born January 12, 1913 in Koenigsberg , † 1969 ) was a German catcher and actor . Toe was 2.19 meters tall, was size 58 shoe and size 68 head.
Live and act
He had been a "professional wrestler" since 1935 and moved from Chemnitz to Berlin that same year . In 1936 he fought in Danzig in front of 8000 spectators against the 2.10 meter tall Poland Leo Grabowski. The battle that Zehe won lasted from eight thirty to eleven. In 1939 he won a tournament in Vienna.
He was a soldier in Küstrin . The uniform had to be tailor-made, and the steel helmet was also handmade. In 1942 he weighed 195 kilograms. At the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the Soviets. When he was released, he weighed only 150 pounds.
He found a job at the Berlin slaughterhouse. He was soon wrestling again in the Berlin palace. One of Zehes opponents was 1947 world champion Hans Schwarz Jr., the son of Hans Schwarz , who defeated him after three quarters of an hour. By 1949, Zehes weight increased to 156 kilograms, by 1952 the "homosaur" brought it to 213.5 kilograms. On September 21, 1951 he was defeated in Frankfurt am Main by the former boxing champion Primo Carnera . In 1952 he defeated the former boxer Jack Doyle as "Gargantua" in Haringey , Great Britain.
In 1939, Zehe appeared in Robert and Bertram for the first time in a film as "a very tall man on the fairground." After the war he continued his film appearances. In the homeland film classic Black Forest Girl , he took on a fairly extensive job as the gigantic, jealous house servant Gottlieb. In Schwarzwaldmelodie and Schwarzwälder Kirsch he was seen in similar roles.
Filmography
- 1939: Robert and Bertram
- 1940: The unfaithful Eckehart
- 1941: The brave little tailor
- 1942: What a fruit
- 1950: Black Forest girl
- 1950: The stars don't lie / Mr. Megelein cannot be spoken
- 1956: Black Forest melody
- 1958: The Photographer's Wife or The Great Love
- 1958: Black Forest cherry
Web links
- Kurt toe in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- SPIEGEL report on Kurt Zehe (1949)
Individual evidence
- ↑ unknown. In: wrestlinghistory.homepage24.de. Archived from the original on July 17, 2012 ; accessed on January 22, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Kurt Zehe - The tallest wrestler. In: thetallestman.com. Retrieved January 22, 2017 (English).
- ↑ Newspaper article about Kurt Zehe JPEG file. In: thetallestman.com. Retrieved January 22, 2017 .
- ↑ Back to the hype . In: Der Spiegel . No. 29 , 1952 ( online ).
- ↑ unknown. In: corbisimages.com. Archived from the original on July 23, 2012 ; accessed on January 22, 2017 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Toe, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German catcher and actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koenigsberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1969 |