Paul Böhmer (wrestler)

Paul Böhmer (born May 3, 1907 in Staffelstein , † January 5, 1983 in Schönau am Koenigssee ) was a German wrestler .

Career

He started wrestling and weightlifting at the Lichtenfels Athletes Club , but soon turned to wrestling. He learned the butcher's trade and then went on "wandering", first wrestling for TV Jahn Göppingen and AK Pirmasens , whose team he helped to win the German team championship in 1929 against AC youth force Zella-Mehlis . Paul Böhmer moved on until he found a permanent place to stay at AC Bad Reichenhall and became a well-known master butcher and innkeeper in Königssee. With AC Bad Reichenhall, he won the German team championship again in 1950 , this time against Viktoria Eckenheim, together with Josef Paar , Peter Enzinger and Bartolomäus "Bartl" Brötzner . Paul Böhmer was often on the mat in German national teams until 1942. He always showed exemplary commitment and, as a light heavyweight, often wrestled in the heavyweight division. So also in an international match against Estonia, when he fought against the European champion of 1938 and 1939 Johannes Kotkas , but lost.

International success

• 1935 2nd place , EM in Copenhagen , Greco-Roman style , HS , with victories over Krzysmalski, Poland and Onni Pellinen , Finland a . Defeats to Edvīns Bietags , Latvia and Axel Cadier , Sweden ;
• 1937 2nd place , EM in Munich , freestyle , HS, with victories over Umberto Silvestri , Italy , Karl Hegglin , Switzerland , Josef Palotas, Hungary and one defeat against Cadier.

Success at German championships

• 1934, 3rd place in Nuremberg , gr, HS, behind Erich Siebert , Darmstadt , and Hans Hauenstein, Fürth;
• 1935, 3rd place in Nuremberg, gr, HS behind Werner Seelenbinder , Berlin , and Engelhardt, Nuremberg;
• 1936, 2nd place in Bad Reichenhall , F, HS, behind Siebert and in front of Karl Ehret , Ludwigshafen am Rhein ;
• 1937, 2nd place in Dortmund , gr, HS, behind Seelenbinder, Berlin;
• 1937, 1st place in Flensburg , F, HS, ahead of Ehret and Siebert;
• 1938, 3rd place in Breslau, F, HS, behind Ehret and Engelhardt;
• 1939, 2nd place in Nuremberg, gr, HS, behind Max Leichter , Eckenheim, in front of Ehret.

International battles

Paul Böhmer played 11 international matches for Germany, in which he won six times.

swell

• Specialist magazines athletics and weight training ,
• Documentation "Hundred Years of Wrestling in Germany", publisher of the German Wrestling Association, Athletik-Verlag, Karlsruhe, 1992, pages 173, 218, 229 u. 230

Web links

• Photos by Paul Böhmer in the BRV chronicle
• Profile of Paul Böhmer at the Institute for Applied Training Science

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kraftsport , No. 26/1937, Illustrierte Wochenschrift f. Heavy athletics, Berlin-Charlottenburg 8, House of German Sports on the Reichssportfeld, p. 5.