Wilfrid Schulz

Wilfrid Schulz (* 1929 in Hamburg ; † August 26, 1992 ) was a German entrepreneur in the entertainment and hospitality industry as well as a boxing organizer .

Life

Schulz grew up in the Hamburg district of St. Pauli , where his parents ran a pub. He finished school with secondary school leaving certificate and worked as a crate hauler in the port of Hamburg . Schulz later worked his way up in Hamburg's entertainment district, was a night porter, later a tenant in the hospitality industry and then owner of night clubs. In the second half of the 1960s he forcibly drove out Austrian pimps who wanted to make their way into the Hanseatic city and thereby became "the undisputed number one in Hamburg's red-light district". In 1970 he largely withdrew from the shops in the St. Pauli district and ran on Steindamm in Hamburg-St. Georg the dance hall "Café Cherie". He lived in a villa in the Blankenese district . The news magazine Der Spiegel described Schulz's rise with the words "from banana tractor to millionaire".

From 1972 Schulz organized professional boxing evenings, some with European championship matches and battles for German championship titles, including in Hamburg in the Ernst-Merck-Halle , the Sporthalle Hamburg , the CCH and in the Ostseehalle Kiel . He worked with boxing promoter Willy Zeller , among others . Well-known boxers who were used at Schulz's events included Lothar Abend , Karl-Heinz Klein , Frank Wissenbach , Frank Reiche and Louis Pergaud . Schulz also looked after some of the boxers himself as a manager. In May 1974 he was awarded the golden merit badge by the Association of German Professional Boxers . In 1976 he wanted to have two women with US licenses compete in a boxing match in Germany, which the Association of German Professional Boxers forbade. The “Box-Gala '77” held in Hamburg in May 1977 caused a sensation, at which he staged professional sport as a social event and presented celebrities such as Horst Frank , Katja Ebstein , Martin Jente and Roberto Blanco as guests. The event was broadcast by the television station N3 and partly also by ARD . According to Schulz, he pursued the goal of "making boxing socially acceptable again". According to the Hamburg judiciary, Schulz tried with the boxing gala to appeal to higher social circles and to move away from the red light district. In the opinion of the investigators, this failed, the event was classified by investigators as “a meeting of the demimonde” and as “one of the biggest crooks' balls that has probably ever taken place in Germany”.

Schulz was nicknamed "Frida" because of his vain appearance, which was given to him in reference to a flower woman. However, he loathed the name and reacted violently when he was addressed as "Frida". Schulz's trademark included his well-groomed appearance, including a suit with wide stripes, crocodile leather shoes and cigars. Rüdiger Bagger (public prosecutor in Hamburg between 1978 and 2008) assessed the position of the entrepreneur in the red-light district of the Hanseatic city. Schulz was the man who “had the say in St. Pauli”. According to Hamburger Abendblatt , Schulz went down in Hamburg's criminal history as one of the most important masterminds in the sex and gambling business. He has been described as the “godfather of St. Pauli” and “one of the most colorful figures in Hamburg's entertainment scene”. According to the Hamburger Morgenpost, Schulz was characterized by a cool mind and an emphatically polite demeanor. According to a report by Spiegel TV , Schulz is said to have built criminal structures that reached as far as the United States . The Hamburger Abendblatt reported in June 2007 in the article "When the Mafia came to Hamburg" on evidence that Schulz had contacts with the US Mafia, but that he had disguised his stays in the United States as business trips for his work as a boxing manager. According to the US Federal Police FBI , there was also telephone contact between Schulz and Mafia members in the United States. The accusation that Schulz had blackmailed high-ranking police officers with sex videos, among other things, could never be proven to him despite several references. According to the opinion of the news magazine Der Spiegel , the Hamburg justice system "often tried in vain to convict Schulz as an underworld boss". According to estimates by the newspaper Die Zeit , Schulz had been arrested by the police around 50 times by 1984. According to investigations by the Hamburg police, there was a “court” in the red light scene to clarify internal disputes, Schulz had acted as chairman. According to information from the Hamburg judiciary, Schulz was repeatedly conspicuous through threats of violence.

In 1980 a special commission carried out corruption investigations into possible connections between Schulz and a criminal director of the Hamburg police. Schulz is said to have influenced the Hamburg police through this officer. Ultimately, however, there was no evidence of joint machinations between the entrepreneur and the high-ranking police officer. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung described Schulz as a man who “could be trusted to do a lot, but could not be proven”.

At the beginning of February 1981 Schulz was sentenced by the Hamburg district court to a suspended sentence of one year and a fine of 36,000 DM for “continued tax evasion”. He had confessed that he had not declared 600,000 DM in taxes. In 1977 Schulz was arrested as part of the investigation, but was allowed to leave the prison in December of the same year on bail of 1.3 million DM. In 1981 the police intercepted Schulz illegally with bugs, which led to the so-called police scandal in Hamburg politics , also because a state council had approved the procedure. From autumn 1981, Schulz's telephones and his colleague Uwe Carstens (milieu name: "Dakota-Uwe") were monitored by the police with the approval of a judge. At the beginning of November 1982 Schulz was arrested as part of a large-scale police operation. He was accused of forming a criminal organization, promoting prostitution, drug offenses and tax fraud. He then sat in solitary confinement for 14 months and from December 1983 finally had to answer in court for allegations of tax evasion, promotion of prostitution, aiding and abetting in forging documents and a false affidavit. In mid-April 1984 Schulz was sentenced to three and a half years in prison by the Hamburg district court for tax evasion in five cases, promotion of prostitution, inciting false testimony, and aiding and abetting in forging documents. His restaurant "Café Chérie" was closed. According to the judges, Schulz promoted and regulated the hustle and bustle of the whores in the "Café Chérie". In addition, there was close contact between the restaurant and an hourly hotel in which Schulz was, according to the court, involved.

Schulz was involved as a consultant in the films Police Station Davidswache and The Angels of St. Pauli .

Schulz died of cancer on August 26, 1992 and was buried in the Hamburg-Blankenese cemetery.

Individual evidence

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