Peter Gerber (boxer)

Peter Gerber (left) loses against Jürgen Schlegel in the 1964 Olympic qualification

Peter Gerber medal table
boxer
Germany
European Championship
silver	1965 Berlin	Light heavyweight
silver	1967 Rome	Light heavyweight

Peter Gerber (born August 15, 1944 ) is a former German boxer . He was in 1965 and 1967 vice European champion of the amateurs in the light heavyweight division .

Career

Peter Gerber grew up in Bremen and started boxing there as a teenager . After graduating from high school, he joined the Bremen police force and became a member of the SV Bremen police force. His trainer was Otto Lindner. In 1962 he achieved his first great success, he became German junior light middleweight champion.

Peter Garber also quickly caught up with the top German class among senior citizens. In 1964 he was the first German light heavyweight champion by winning points in the final over Horst Schippers from Hamburg . However, he did not make the jump to the Olympic Games in Tokyo , where Germany was represented by an all-German team.

In 1965, Peter Gerber won the German light heavyweight championship for the second time by winning points in the final over Lothar Stengel from Kaiserslautern . He was also able to convince at his first start at a major international championship, the European Amateur Championship in East Berlin . He won there over Hans Christie, Ireland and Stanislaw Dragan from Poland on points and also beat Bernd Anders from the GDR safely on points in the semifinals . In the final, the super technician met the physically very strong Soviet champion Dan Pozniak , against whom he lost on points. He was thus vice European champion in 1965 in the light heavyweight division.

In 1966 Peter Gerber became German light heavyweight champion for the third time. In Duisburg he defeated Kurt Morwinsky from Ludwigsburg on points in the final . There were no international championships this year.

After winning the title again at the German championship, Peter Gerber started again at the European championship in Rome in 1967 . There it defeated Szabolcs Mathe from Hungary and Brian Sandy from England on points and in the semifinals he even won over Cosimo Pinto from Italy by techn. KO in the 3rd round. In the final he met again on Dan Pozniak, against whom he lost again on points. He was again runner-up in Europe.

In 1965, 1967 and 1969 Peter Gerber was also the German police chief.

In 1968 he ended his international boxer career before the Olympic Games in Mexico City because he was given the chance to rise to the higher service in the police force and had to attend important courses.

He stayed boxing from 1968 to 1975 as head coach at the SV Bremen police. Today he is the father of two children and the grandfather of three grandchildren.

Country fights by Peter Gerber

• 1964 in Stuttgart , Germany against Poland , draw against Wladyslaw Dragan,
• 1965 in Hanover , Germany against England , points winner over Whistler,
• 1965 in Hamburg , Germany against Romania , draw against Ion Monea ,
• 1965 in Wolfsburg , Germany against Romania, points winner over Ion Monea,
• 1965 in London , England against FRG, points winner over Peter Tighe,
• 1966 in Bucharest , Romania against FRG, point defeat against Ion Monea,
• 1966 in Constanța , Romania against FRG, points winner over Trandafir,
• 1966 in Berlin , FRG against USA, points winner over John Griffin,
• 1967 in Memphis , USA against FRG, points winner over Jerry Evans,
• 1967 in Syracuse , USA against FRG, points winner over Leonard Hutchins

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• Box Sport magazine from 1962 to 1968,
• BOX-ALMANACH 1920 - 1980 , publisher of the German Amateur Boxing Association, 1980,
• Website "www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl"