Paul bustards
Paul Trappen (* 1887 in Heidweiler ; † February 22, 1957 in Trier ) was a German wrestler , weightlifter and power artist .
Career
Paul Trappen was a son of the farmer Christian Trappen and his wife Maria Katharina Görgen from Hasborn (Eifel) . As an apprentice butcher , he moved to Trier, where he lived until his death. In 1911 Trappen married the Trier bricklayer's daughter, Susanna Dier. The daughters Anna, Katharina and the son Josef emerged from the marriage. He earned his living as an innkeeper since the 1920s. His Trier rib house on Simeonstrasse was famous beyond Trier, and later the Eifeler Hof on Brückenstrasse was added.
Services
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Even before he won the German heavyweight championship in 1912 in weightlifting , Trappen had established himself as the strongest wrestler in the south-west of Germany in several competitions. He established his legendary fame, which continues to this day, in 1913 with incredible feats of strength. The most famous: Bustling, standing on a lifting platform, pulled a platform with two full-grown oxen (total weight: 2064 kg) almost half a meter high on an iron chain . Not only did he clearly outperform the comparable lifting performance of the Luxembourg world load- lifting champion John Grün , but he also set up a demonstration of strength that has hardly been exceeded to this day. No less astonishing was Trappen's one-armed free transfer of two - later even almost three hundredweight. Bustards could lift three men weighing over 200 kg with one arm. Lying on his back, he used his legs to push up twenty people sitting on a board (weighing a total of over 30 centners).
After this feat of strength, Trappen was hired by the American circus Barnum and Baileys , but shortly afterwards had to participate as a soldier in the First World War . After the First World War, he performed as a power artist in numerous places for a few years.
In 1925, he beat the reigning Olympic champion with a pentathlon world record . Because of the First World War, but also because his professional contract contradicted the Olympic amateur statute, the member of the Trier athletic club Deutsche Eiche Siegfried was denied the fame of an Olympic champion. Paul Trappen had to console himself by outbidding the Olympic champions of 1924, 1928 or 1936 in parallel competitions. As a fifty-year-old grandfather, Trappen set a senior world record in powerlifting .
Club activity
In terms of sport, his achievements went far beyond his own achievements. As a coach for decades and a leading club official, he succeeded in establishing Trier's reputation as a city of strong men . His master class students Jakob Vogt and Helmut Opschruf set world records, athletes like Oswald ("Ossi") Junkes or his son Josef Trappen made the Trier weightlifters one of the strongest relays in Germany at times. His strength athletic achievements, but also his personality made the Eifel farmer's son Paul Trappen one of the best-known and most popular Trier of the 20th century.
Web links
- Gregor Brand: “ Paul Trappen from Heidweiler - the strongest man in the world. “In: Eifelzeitung , November 10, 2010.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://125jahretv.uni-trier.de/zeitung/04/p4_4.htm
- ↑ http://www.sport-komplett.de/sport-komplett/sportarten/g/gewichtoben/hst/91.html
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bustards, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German weightlifter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heidweiler |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 22, 1957 |
| Place of death | trier |