Otto Schmittner

Otto Schmittner (born May 3, 1934 in Aschaffenburg ; † July 26, 2011 there ) was a German wrestler .

Career

Otto Schmittner grew up in Aschaffenburg and started wrestling there as a teenager at the sports club "Einigkeit" in Damm . The coach, from whom he learned the most, was Philipp Büttner, a member of an old Aschaffenburg wrestling family. Otto Schmittner, who learned the trade of a tailor but later worked for the Deutsche Bundesbahn, had reached the top German class in lightweight as a 20-year-old. He wrestled mainly in the Greco-Roman style , but occasionally also competed in the free style .

His first big success in his wrestling career was the victory at the German junior championship in 1954 in Greco-Roman. Lightweight style from Johann Sommer from Munich . In the same year he was also the German runner-up in the senior class in free style behind Karl Hock from Kirrlach. In the course of his further career he won the title of German master in Greco-Roman in 1955, 1957 and 1961. Lightweight or welterweight style . In 1961 he won ahead of Günther Maritschnigg , the winner of the silver medal at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome . In addition, he achieved nine other placements among the three best wrestlers, including three in free style.

In 1955 Otto Schmittner won the elimination for the world championship in Greco-Roman. Style that was held in Karlsruhe that year , before the German master of 1954 Heinz Heller from Hof and Johann Sommer. After good preparation by the then national coach Jean Földeák , Otto Schmittner reached 12th place at this world championship. In the first round he scored a shoulder victory over the Austrian Georg Brötzner. In the next round he then had to accept point defeats against Dumitru Cuc from Romania and Grigori Gamarnik from the USSR . It is worth noting, however, that against Gamarnik , who eventually became world champion, he was sure to get the full fighting time of 15 minutes.

In his further career, Otto Schmittner did not play any more at international championships (in the 1950s and 1960s championships were held much less often than today). With his club SV "Einigkeit" Aschaffenburg-Damm he was still German team champion in 1963 and 1964. After his career as a wrestler, Otto Schmittner turned to long-distance running and competed in a few marathons.

International success

(GR = Greco-Roman style, F = free style, Le = lightweight, We = welter weight, then up to 67 kg and 73 kg body weight)

• 1955, 12th place , World Championship in Karlsruhe , GR, Le, with a victory over Georg Brötzner, Austria a . Defeats against Dumitru Cuc , Romania a . Grigori Gamarnik , USSR

• 1956, 5th place , World Cup in Istanbul , GR, Le, m. Victory over Franco Benedetti , Italy a . Defeats against Dimitru Gheorghe , Romania a . Dimitri Stoyanov , Bulgaria

German championships

• 1954, 2nd place , F, Le, before Karl Hock, KSV Kirrlach u. Gerhard Füglein, SV Nürnberg 04,
• 1955, 1st place , GR, Le, ahead of Heinz Heller, ASV Hof u. Rolf Ellerbrock, ASV Heros Dortmund ,
• 1956, 3rd place , GR, Le, behind Karl-Heinz Porscha, ASV Heros Dortmund a. Walter Held, KSV Brötzingen ,
• 1957, 1st place , GR, Le, before Walter Held u. Karl Scherm (wrestler) , ESV Neuaubing ,
• 1958, 2nd place , GR, Le, behind Gottlieb Neumair , ESV Neuaubing u. before Walter Held,
• 1969, 2nd place , GR, Le, behind Edmund Seger , AV Freiburg-St.Georgen u. before Edgar Kaufmann, Thaleischweiler,
• 1960, 3rd place , F, We, behind Werner Bodamer , Kirchheim u. Eberhard Wahl, ASV Schorndorf ,
• 1961, 1st place , GR, We, ahead of Günther Maritschnigg , Witten -Annen u. Siegfried Mangold, ASV Botnang ,
• 1964, 3rd place , GR, We, behind Ernst Knoll , ASV Eppelheim u. Gottlieb Neumair,
• 1966, 2nd place , GR, We, behind Peter Nettekoven , ASV Heros Dortmund a. in front of Reinhard Zeiher , KSV Brötzingen,
• 1966, 3rd place , F, We, behind Peter Nettekoven u. Reinhard Zeiher,
• 1967, 3rd place , GR, We, behind Werner Schröter , VfK Schifferstadt u. Peter Nettekoven

swell

• Athletics magazine . World Cup special edition 1955, p. 11.
• A hundred years of wrestling in Germany. Verlag Der Ringer, Niedernberg, pp. 197, 214, 215, 226, 227, 228.
• Yearbook of the German Wrestling Federation 1972. Athletik-Verlag, Karlsruhe 1972, p. 195.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Former unity wrestler Otto Schmittner died , Hessischer Ringerverband, July 31, 2011, accessed on August 20, 2011
2. ↑ The support team has a scan of the obituary notice under ticket: 2011082010008535