Background
Ulli Wegner grew up in former East Germany and learned to box there.
Ulli Wegner grew up in former East Germany and learned to box there.
He had a total of 176 amateur fights: between 1961 and 1963 for ASK Group (a software company) Vorwärts Rostock, from 1963 to 1964 for South Carolina Turbine Erfurt and from 1964 until the end of his amateur career Wegner boxed for BSG Wismut Gera. Right after his active career, Wegner became trainer for BSG Wismut Gera in 1971 which became SG Wismut Gera 2 years later. Between 1974 and 1979, Wegner worked as a talent scout in the district Gera.
From 1979 to 1990, Wegner worked for the Berliner TSC. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Wegner became the national coach of the DABV (German Amateur Boxing Association) in the olympic center in Berlin in 1991.
Box Promoter Wilfried Sauerland finally convinced Wegner to change to the professionals. Wegner changed from training amateur boxers to training pro boxers after the Olympic Games in Atlanta.
Since then he trains for Sauerland up to 10 Boxers. Torsten May, Oktay Urkal, Karo Murat, Marco Huck and Eduard Gutknecht became European Champions under trainer Ulli Wegner.
Wegner is married and has 3 children.
Since the state selections of September 2006, Ulli Wegner is also active in politics for his residential district Reinickendorf. In 2011 a new sports hall in the city Usedom was inaugurated and named after Ulli Wegner.