Ferdinand Raeschke (19 February 1920, Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

 – ?) was a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 boxer.

He won the 22nd German National Championships in 1941, and won the gold medal, defeating Gyula Torma

Július Torma

Július Torma was an ethnic Hungarian boxer competing for Czechoslovakia. He won the gold medal at the Olympic Games in 1948 for Czechoslovakia in the category up to 67 kg. He competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics .Torma defeated Hank Herring of the United States in the 1948 final...

 (HUN), Borje Wretman (SWE), and Lajos Szentgyorgy (HUN), in the Welterweight

Welterweight

Welterweight is a weight class division in combat sports. Originally the term "welterweight" was used only in boxing, but other combat sports like kickboxing, taekwondo and mixed martial arts also began to use it for their own weight division system...

 class at the 1942 European Amateur Boxing Championships

1942 European Amateur Boxing Championships

The 1942 European Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Breslau, Germany from 20 to 25 January. There were 97 fighters from 11 countries participating: Germany, Hungary, and Italy , and Croatia, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland...

in Breslau.
In 1940–1941, he was on the German national team 8 times, scoring +6 –2 =0. He took 2nd place in the 25th German National Championships in April 1944.
As a professional boxer, he won 39, lost 6, and drawn 12, in the period of 1945–1950.

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