Willi Möchel

Willi Ferdinand Möchel (born March 10, 1914 in Cologne-Mülheim , † March 21, 1943 in the European Mediterranean ) was a German wrestler .

Career

Willi Möchel was one of three brothers from a working-class family in Cologne who started wrestling in the late 1920s. While his older brother Oswald was multiple German masters in Greco-Roman in the 1930s . When style was welterweight, his younger brother Hans was a good team wrestler. All three competed for the AC of 1892 Cologne-Mülheim . With this club Willi Möchel was also German team champion in 1939.

In the individual competitions, Willi Möchel first drew attention to himself at the German championship in 1933, when he was in the Greco-Roman. Bantamweight style behind Justin Gehring from Friesenheim became German runner-up. Möchel then won his first German championship title a year later at the German fighting games in Nuremberg , again in the bantamweight division in Greco-Roman. Style. By 1942 Willi Möchel had won a total of three German championship titles in both styles.

In view of the tough competition in Germany , Möchel only came to use at international championships, at that time there were only Olympic Games and European championships, at the European championship in Copenhagen in 1935 . In Greco-Roman Style won Möchel in his first three fights and also won against the Hungarian Márton Lőrincz , who was to become Olympic champion in Berlin a year later ; but he lost in his fourth fight against the multiple Swedish European champion Herman Tuvesson and landed on the ungrateful 4th place.

In qualifying for the 1936 Olympic Games, Willi Möchel narrowly failed against Jakob Brendel from Nuremberg , the 1932 Olympic champion.

Willi Möchel was married to Katherina Karoline Rohde since 1939. He died in the Second World War a few days after his 29th birthday while on a transport mission in the Mediterranean region. His body remained at sea.

International success

(EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, F = free style, Ba = bantam weight, Fe = feather weight, at that time up to 56 kg or 61 kg body weight)

• 1935, 4th place , EM in Copenhagen, GR, Ba, with victories over Márton Lőrincz, Hungary , Marian Swietoslawski, Poland and Esko Hjelt , Finland and one defeat against Herman Tuvesson, Sweden

German championships

• 1933, 2nd place, GR, Ba, behind Justin Gehring, Friesenheim u. in front of Willi Lunkenheimer, Dieburg ,
• 1934, 1st place, GR, Ba, before Willi Monken, Bamberg a . Fritz Ostermann, Saarbrücken ,
• 1935, 2nd place, GR, Ba, behind Jakob Brendel, Nuremberg a . in front of Johannes Herbert , Stuttgart ,
• 1935, 1st place, F, Ba, in front of Fritz Schrader, Dortmund -Hörde u. Johannes Herbert,
• 1936, 2nd place, F, Ba, behind Jakob Brendel u. before Johannes Herbert,
• 1937, 2nd place, GR, Ba, behind Adam Müller, Lampertheim a . in front of Otto Uhrig, Oftersheim ,
• 1937, 2nd place, F, Ba, behind Jakob Brendel u. in front of Ferdinand Schmitz , Cologne,
• 1940, 2nd place, GR, Fe, behind Siegmund Schweickert, Wiesental u. in front of Karl Vondung, Ludwigshafen am Rhein ,
• 1940, 3rd place, F, Fe, behind Ferdinand Schmitz u. Josef Böck , Munich- Neuaubing,
• 1941, 2nd place, F, Fe, behind Ferdinand Schmitz u. in front of Rudi Reinhardt, Hohenlimburg ,
• 1942, 1st place, F, Fe, before Karl Vondung a. Rudi Reinhardt

swell

• 1) Div. Issues of the specialist magazine "Athletik" from 1933 to 1936 a. "Weight training" from the years 1937 to 1942,
• 2) "Hundred Years of Wrestling in Germany", Verlag "Der Ringer", Niedernberg, 1991

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Death certificate no. 1059 from September 8, 1943, registry office Cologne Mülheim. In: LAV NRW R civil status register. Retrieved June 15, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Willi Möchel war grave. In: Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge. Retrieved June 15, 2018 .