He won the
gold medal at the
1956 Summer Olympics and became the first Olympic champion for
East Germany.
Amateur highlights Record: 188 Wins – 8 Losses – 5 Draws •
1955 East German Bantamweight Champion, 3rd place (Flyweight) at European Championships in Berlin. •
1956 Gold Medalist (Bantamweight) in a unified German team at the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne. Results were: • Defeated
Henrik Ottesen (Denmark) KO-2 • Defeated
Owen Reilly (Great Britain) PTS • Defeated
Freddie Gilroy (Ireland) PTS • Defeated
Song Soon-Chun (South Korea) PTS •
1957 East German Bantamweight Champion •
1960 East German Featherweight Champion ==References==