German boxers

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 49. Chapters: Max Schmeling, Susianna Kentikian, Dariusz Michalczewski, Arthur Abraham, Rüdiger May, Axel Schulz, Felix Sturm, Luan Krasniqi, Sebastian Sylvester, Karo Murat, Vitali Tajbert, Marco Huck, Wilhelm von Homburg, Sven Ottke, Henry Maske, Regina Halmich, Markus Beyer, Andreas Zülow, Frank Shabani, Graciano Rocchigiani, Sebastian Köber, Torsten Schmitz, Marco Rudolph, Damon T Dana, Rola El-Halabi, Pierre Vogel, Richard Nowakowski, Fritz Sdunek, Johann Trollmann, Sebastian Zbik, Alexander Dimitrenko, Andreas Tews, Thomas Ulrich, Oktay Urkal, René Monse, Firat Arslan, Herbert Runge, Wilhelm Gratschow, Jürgen Brähmer, Steffen Kretschmann, Torsten May, Jürgen Fanghänel, Jack Culcay-Keth, Zoltan Lunka, Ralf Rocchigiani, Timo Hoffmann, Karl Mildenberger, Ulli Wegner, Hein ten Hoff, Khoren Gevor, Alexander Povernov, Alexander Petkovic, Hans Ziglarski, Wolfgang Behrendt, Edmund Gerber, Rustamhodza Rahimov, Konstantin Airich, Karl-Heinz Krüger, Peter Hussing, Mario Veit, Reiner Gies, Alexander Frenkel, Markus Bott, Manfred Wolke, Jochen Bachfeld, Herbert Nürnberg, Ulli Kaden, Edgar Basel, Jan Quast, Siegfried Mehnert, Lukas Wilaschek, Günther Heidemann, Detlef Kästner, Dieter Kottysch, Michael Murach, Ernst Pistulla, Manfred Zielonka, Falk Huste, Emil Schulz, Richard Vogt, Rudi Fink, Bert Schenk, René Breitbarth, Herbert Bauch, Konstantin Buga, Erich Campe, Willi Besmanoff, Günter Siegmund, Harry Kurschat, Robert Stieglitz, Josef Schleinkofer, Eric Seelig, Cengiz Koç, Michael Prevost, Jürgen Blin, Peter Tiepold, Manfred Homberg, Willy Kaiser, Heinz Schulz, Bernd Wittenburg, Werner Spannagel, Hans Huber, Otto Babiasch, Dimitri Sartison, Reinhard Skricek, Ferdinand Raeschke, Norman Schuster, Günther Meier, Roman Aramian, Josef Miner, Dieter Wemhöner, Hans Schönrath, Michael Timm, Franz Dübbers, Wolfgang Trödler, William Walter, Harry Stein, Vitali Boot, Albert Leidmann, Heinz Kohlhaas, Hubert Ausböck, Marcel Zeller, Franz Kartz, Dirk Käsebier, Rainer Poser, Wilhelm Stasch, Adolf Baumgarten, Steven Küchler, Gerhard Hecht, Karl Schmedes, Elmer Kloos, Klaus-Dieter Kirchstein, Siegfried Olesch, Frank Kegelbein, Dieter Dunkel, Maik Heydeck, Wilhelm Fischer. Excerpt: Maximillian Adolph Otto Siegfried Schmeling (September 28, 1905 ¿ February 2, 2005) was a German boxer who was heavyweight champion of the world between 1930 and 1932. His two fights with Joe Louis in the late 1930s transcended boxing, and became worldwide social events because of their national associations. He was ranked 55 on Ring Magazine's list of 100 greatest punchers of all time. While Schmeling cooperated with the German government's efforts to play down the increasingly negative international world view of its domestic policies during the 1930s he was not a member of the Nazi party. In fact, it became known long after the Second World War that Schmeling had risked his own life to save the lives of two Jewish children in 1938. During World War II Schmeling served with the German Air Force () as an elite paratrooper (). In the USA, he was routinely cast by promoters as the cold-hearted, villainous invader, a puppet of Hitler and a hater of Jews. In Germany, Nazi propagandists portrayed him as a heroic symbol of German destiny and Aryan supremacy. In no way was Max Schmeling any of these things. He was a quality prizefighter with respectable boxing technique, a solid right hand punch, and a keen intellect. The clash of politics, ideals, and countries...