Werner Papke (boxing trainer)

Werner Otto Papke (* 1931 in Berlin ; † December 12, 2017 there ) was a German boxer and boxing trainer.

Life

Papke was a student at the National Political Education Institute in Reisen and was assigned to the SS in January 1945 after the school was closed due to the advancing Red Army . After World War II he took an apprenticeship as a glass blower and punched in Berlin-Weissensee , was training partner Erwin Sahm and Gustav "Bubi" Scholz . In 1948 Papke was a founding member of the Berlin "Gladow Gang" after he had met Werner Gladow in Plötzensee youth prison . According to his own account, Papke was involved in bank robberies. At the beginning of 1949 he left the group. He fought fights as a professional boxer, in 1950 Papke was sentenced to 15 years in prison for his activities for the "Gladow Gang" in the German Democratic Republic , and in 1960 he was released from prison. He continued his career as a professional boxer, in which he says he won 18 out of 21 fights and lost three.

Papke worked as a boxing trainer, looked after amateur boxers at Hertha BSC , but was dismissed there because he was suspected of having treated young people inappropriately. Papke became a professional boxing coach. His protégé Jörg Eipel became European welterweight champion in August 1977 through a controversial demolition victory at the age of 19. When he defended his title in France in December 1977, Eipel collapsed, Papke's boxer suffered cardiac arrest and was then in a coma for 25 days. Even Frank Wissenbach , who lost in December 1982 in the European championship fight at middleweight, was equally Papkes protege as Karlheinz Heistermann .

The Berlin amateur boxing association issued Papke 1975 from house at association championships, because the trainer should have poached amateur boxers. The ban was still in place in the 2000s. Individual clubs also banned him from the house. Papke's youth boxers partly lived with him. He was accused of making false promises to young boxers, encouraging them to drop out of school and promising them millions of dollars that they could earn as a professional boxer. Papke denied such an approach and explained: “Either they come to me by themselves or I will get the boys off the street”.

In February 1995, his protégé Michel Trabant made his debut as a professional boxer at the age of 16. Papke remained Trabants coach until 2000, later his former protégé became European champion. From November 2006 Papke was on trial in Berlin-Moabit ; as a trainer, he was accused of sexual abuse of minors in 178 cases. Trabant acted as a joint plaintiff in the proceedings. Three of his former boxers had filed criminal charges against Papke, including Mike Reissmann, who was North German youth champion and German runner-up under Papke. Papke denied the allegations, spoke of a plot and demanded an acquittal. In his 2013 book “Ich kampf weiter!” Papke wrote that he was “a victim of false accusations”. He protested that he was physically unable to carry out the acts described by the witnesses.

In April 2008, Papke was sentenced to three years and six months in prison after the court found it proven that he had sexually abused four young people between the ages of 11 and 13 in 47 cases as a boxing coach between 1991 and December 2002. Papke appealed against the judgment because, in his opinion, evidence had not been sufficiently considered. The Federal Court of Justice rejected the appeal in April 2009. The verdict against Papke was never carried out.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Memories of Werner Papke. In: ZeitFilm - Production for film and TV on topics of contemporary history. Retrieved November 24, 2019 . 
2. ^ Rüdiger Strempel: Berlin post-war gang leader Werner Gladow: The murderer with the milk face . In: Spiegel Online . May 16, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed November 24, 2019]).
3. ↑ ^{a b} The young boxer from Berlin killed his father - questions about the causes of the crime. In: Der Tagesspiegel. Retrieved November 24, 2019 . 
4. ↑ At night when the trainer came. In: Stern. April 24, 2008, accessed November 24, 2019 . 
5. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1977/pdf/19770808.pdf/ASV_HAB_19770808_HA_013.pdf
6. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1977/pdf/19771219.pdf/ASV_HAB_19771219_HA_015.pdf
7. ↑ Aloys Behler: A boxer fights with death - also, recognized good protection regulations could not prevent the accident: Lashes according to all the rules . In: The time . January 5, 1979, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed November 24, 2019]).
8. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1982/pdf/19821204.pdf/ASV_HAB_19821204_HA_009.pdf
9. ↑ ^{a b} "I whispered desperately MAMA ..." In: BZ Berlin. Retrieved November 24, 2019 . 
10. ↑ hosch: Kalles 61 seconds . In: The daily newspaper: taz . January 30, 1989, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 19 ( taz.de [accessed November 24, 2019]).
11. ↑ ^{a b} Under suspicion. In: Der Tagesspiegel. Retrieved November 24, 2019 . 
12. ^ Strokes from the boxing trainer. In: Der Tagesspiegel. Retrieved November 24, 2019 . 
13. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1995/pdf/19950213.pdf/ASV_HAB_19950213_HA_021.pdf
14. ↑ RP ONLINE: Stable mates meet: Krajnc and Schenk box for the WBO World Cup. Retrieved November 24, 2019 . 
15. ↑ BoxRec: Michel Trabant. Retrieved November 24, 2019 . 
16. ↑ Michael Mielke: Boxing trainer Werner Papke in court . November 17, 2006 ( welt.de [accessed November 24, 2019]).
17. ↑ https://www.amazon.de/Ich-kampf-weiter-Werner-Papke/dp/3000443355
18. ↑ Four students abused: prison for professional boxing coach. In: Der Tagesspiegel. Retrieved November 24, 2019 . 
19. ↑ The Werner Papke case & the long road to justice. In: BZ Berlin. Retrieved November 24, 2019 . 
20. ↑ FOCUS Online: Papke's penis problem. Retrieved November 24, 2019 . 
21. ↑ Frank Schwantes: Boxing trainer Werner Papke passed away. December 20, 2017. Retrieved November 24, 2019 .