Max Schmeling - Part 2
Schmeling: Key Dates and Links
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Key Dates in Max Schmeling's Life:
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- 1928 - Schmeling hires Joe Jacobs, an American Jew of Hungarian extraction, as his new boxing manager. In 1928 and 1929 he wins several matches in the US.
- 1930 - On June 12 in New York Schmeling takes the world heavyweight championship title by default when Jack Sharkey hits him below the belt.
- 1933 - In July Max marries the Czech-Austrian film actress Anny Ondra (Anna Sophie Ondráková), who had appeared in Czech films and in Alfred Hitchcock's BLACKMAIL (1929). They had met while Max was making the film LIEBE IM RING (1930).
- 1936 - On June 19 Max Schmeling and Joe Louis have their first match. Schmeling gets a surprise knockout victory in the 12th round.
- 1938 - The Louis-Schmeling rematch takes place on June 22. Louis knocks out Schmeling after a mere 124 seconds. Schmeling is hospitalized.
- 1938 - During the anti-Jewish Kristallnacht violence of 9 November, Schmeling hides two Jewish brothers, Henry and Werner Lewin, in his Berlin apartment and later helps them go to the US.
- 1939 - Joe Jacobs dies of a heart attack. World War II begins.
- 1940 - Schmeling joins the Wehrmacht as a paratrooper. (He was not drafted as some sources claim.)
- 1942 - Joe Louis joins the segregated US Army and reaches the rank of sergeant.
- 1945 - World War II ends; Schmeling and Germany try to recover.
- 1948 - Max retires from boxing.
- 1952 - Schmeling begins his long association with the Coca-Cola company in Germany.
- 1954 - Max visits the USA and his former boxing opponent Joe Louis.
- 1957 - Schmeling is offered the opportunity to become a partner in Coca-Cola Germany. It is the start of a successful business career. Anny Ondra makes her last film (DIE ZÜRCHER VERLOBUNG) and retires from the movie business.
- 1960 - Max and Joe Louis appear together on the TV show "This Is Your Life."
- 1977 - Schmeling publishes his autobiography, Erinnerungen ("Memoirs")
- 1981 - Joe Louis dies in Las Vegas. Schmeling serves as a pallbearer at Louis' Arlington Cemetery burial.
- 1987 - Anny Ondra (b. 1903) dies in Hollenstedt on 28 February.
- 1991 - The philanthropic Max-Schmeling-Stiftung (foundation) is founded. Schmeling is the first German to be accepted into the boxing Hall of Fame.
- 1996 - The Max-Schmeling-Halle opens in Berlin.
- 2005 - Max Schmeling dies in his sleep aged 99 on Feb. 2. In a quiet ceremony he is buried next to his wife in Hollenstedt, near Hamburg. He misses his goal of living to be 100 by just eight months.
- See the books, DVD, and Web links below for more about Schmeling's life...
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BOOK > Max Schmeling: An Autobiography - A translation of Schmeling's German memoirs from Amazon.com
BUCH > Max Schmeling und Anny Ondra (von Dorothea Friedrich) - from Amazon.de
BUCH > Max Schmeling (von Volker Kluge, 2004) - from Amazon.de
DVD > Joe and Max (2002) - A docudrama starring Til Schweiger as Max Schmeling, Peta Wilson as Anny Ondra, his wife, and Leonard Roberts as Joe Louis. Filmed on location in Germany. > Compare prices
MEHR BÜCHER > Max Schmeling (Web)
Max Schmeling on the Web
Max Schmeling (1905-2005)
Biografie des deutschen Sportlers. Vom Deutschen Historischen Museum (DHM).
American Experience: Max Schmeling
A biography and overview related to the PBS TV documentary.
Anny Ondra - IMDb
A filmography and brief bio from the Internet Movie Database (IMDb).
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