Ulli Nitzschke

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Ulli Nitzschke boxer
Data
Birth Name Ulrich Nitzschke
Weight class Heavyweight
nationality GermanyGermany German
birthday July 25, 1933
place of birth Quedlinburg
Date of death 23rd July 2013
style Left-hand boom
Combat Statistics
Struggles 30 (Professional)
Victories 23
Knockout victories 15th
Defeats 6th
draw 1
Profile in the BoxRec database
Ulli Nitzschke (right) with Erich Stubnick (1955)

Ulrich "Ulli" Nitzschke (born July 25, 1933 in Quedlinburg ; † July 23, 2013 in Chemnitz ) was a German boxer . He was European amateurs champion in 1953 and vice-European amateurs champion in 1955, both in the light heavyweight division.

Career

Amateur career

Ulli Nitzschke began boxing in 1948 at the BSG Deutsche Saatzucht-Gesellschaft Quedlinburg. He proved to be a technically gifted boxer who made very rapid progress. At the age of 18 he became champion of Saxony-Anhalt and GDR middleweight champion. He also won the student world championships held in Berlin , which were determined as part of the World Festival of Youth and Students .

Ulli Nitzschke was GDR champion again in 1952, albeit one weight class higher, in the light heavyweight division. He started now for the BSG "Motor" Ost Halle and later for the SC "Wissenschaft" Halle. The coaches who worked with him were Willi Franke, Hans Borowski and the former European professional boxer champion Arno Kölblin , who was the coach of the GDR team at the time. Ulli Nitzschke was unable to take part in the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki because the responsible sports committees in the FRG and GDR could not find a common denominator for an all-German team. That he would have been good for a medal in Helsinki, he proved in an international match on March 8, 1952 in Moscow, where he defeated the strong Polish light heavyweight champion Tadeusz Grzelak on points.

In 1953, Ulli Nitzschke defeated Hans Roback from Cottbus in the GDR light heavyweight championship on points and won his third GDR championship title. In the meantime, the GDR had been accepted as an independent member of the European Amateur Boxing Association. Ulli Nitzschke was therefore able to take part in this year's European Championships in Warsaw . He showed excellent performances in the light heavyweight division and defeated the Hungarian Szabo in the quarterfinals and the German starter Helmut Pfirrmann from Weinheim in the semifinals, each safely on points. In the final against Tadeusz Grzelak he was always the master of the ring and won clearly on points.

In 1954 Ulli Nitzschke was injured several times. He was therefore missing from the GDR championship. In an international match of the GDR relay against Poland, he defeated on April 25, 1954 in Wrocław in the heavyweight Bogdan Wegrzyniak by knockout in the 1st round.

At the GDR championship in 1955, Ulli Nitzschke started in the heavyweight division. He defeated Werner Kohnert from SC Aufbau Magdeburg in the final because of too much superiority by breaking off in the 2nd round. In an international match against Austria he then beat Frauenlob from Salzburg on points in the light heavyweight division and also won in another heavyweight match in Leipzig over Szabo on points. Ulli Nitzschke was the big favorite in the light heavyweight division at the European Amateur Championships in Berlin (West). He also fought his way safely into the final, in which he faced the German starter Erich Schöppner from Witten . Ulli Nitzschke couldn't get along with the almost a head smaller Schöppner. He could not use his range advantages and was boxed by Schöppner according to all the rules of the art of fist fighting. Therefore Erich Schöppner became European champion and for Ulli Nitzschke only the EM silver medal remained.

In 1956 Ulli Nitzschke was not at the start in the GDR championship. But he was there in the elimination for the all-German Olympic team, which came about for the first time. He won there in the light heavyweight division over Georg Krenz from Essen and Hans Roback and qualified for Melbourne . In Melbourne, Ulli Nitzschke surprisingly appeared as a heavyweight. Although he was not qualified for this weight class, he was allowed to start. But he already lost his first fight against the Italian Giacomo Bozzano on points and had to retire without a medal.

1957 Ulli Nitzschke was again at the start in the heavyweight division at the European Championships in Prague . There he defeated the Frenchman Labaj in the first round by breaking off in the second round and met in the quarter-finals against the Soviet giant Andrei Abramov , who weighed around 105 kg. Nitzschke fought brilliantly against Abramow and achieved a narrow point advantage in the first two rounds, which he lost again in the third round due to poor fitness. The five judges then decided 3-2 in favor of Abramov. For Nitzschke it was a very unfortunate defeat that resulted in his departure.

In 1958, Ulli Nitzschke had to serve a four-month prison sentence for a traffic offense in the GDR and fled to West Berlin on August 15, 1958.

Profile career

In Berlin he signed a professional contract with manager Fritz Gretzschel and already played his first professional heavyweight fight against Bobby Warmbrunn on October 4, 1958 in Berlin, which he defeated in the 4th round by knockout. Twelve more victories followed. Initially against opponents who were developing, but also against very strong and well-known boxers such as Hans Friedrich from Dortmund , whom he scored on May 30, 1959 in Wolfsburg , and Francis Magnetto from France , whom he prematurely scored on December 26, 1959 in Cologne in the 2nd round defeated and Ilkka Koski from Finland , whom he knocked out on January 23, 1960 in Berlin in the 1st round.

On February 6, 1960 Ulli Nitzschke met in Frankfurt / Main on the American Olympic champion from 1956 Pete Rademacher , who later delivered a good fight as a professional and challenger to Cassius Clay . Rademacher hit Nitzschke so hard in the 7th round in a match that had been balanced until then that he was knocked out. This defeat for Ulli Nitzschke actually heralded the end of his professional career.

He still won u. a. against Kitione Lave from Tonga on August 19, 1960 in Berlin by KO in the 2nd round and also defeated Ulli Ritter on September 27, 1961 in Frankfurt / Main on points, but had to fight Albert Westphal on October 7, 1960 in the 8th round and on January 26, 1963 in the fight against Gerhard Zech in the 7th round, each after several knockdowns, were taken out of the ring due to inability to defend.

He then ended his professional career as a boxer after the fight against Zech. He then worked as a sales representative in the fur industry and became a disability pensioner in Berlin in 1967 after a serious car accident.

literature

  • Box Sport trade magazine from 1951 to 1963
  • Volker Kluge : The great lexicon of GDR athletes. The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR, their successes and biographies. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-348-9 .

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personal data
SURNAME Nitzschke, Ulli
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nitzschke, Ulrich (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German boxer
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Quedlinburg
DATE OF DEATH 23rd July 2013
Place of death Chemnitz