Background
He was born in Barnstorf, the son of a family of craftsmen.
He was born in Barnstorf, the son of a family of craftsmen.
In the 1930s, he was one of the best in the world on the pommel horse. He was a sports instructor at the Hamm Gymnasium and at the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Realschule in Bergkamen.