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{{short description|German boxer (1930–2000)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2014}}
{{Infobox boxer
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|realname = Gustav Wilhelm Hermann Scholz
|nickname = Bubi Scholz
|nationality = [[Germany|German]]
|birth_date = {{Birth date|1930|04|12|df=yes}}
|birth_place = [[Berlin]], [[Weimar Republic|Germany]]
|death_date = {{Death date and age|2000|08|21|1930|04|12|df=yes}}
|death_place = Berlin, [[Germany]]
|style = Southpaw
|total = 96<ref name=archive/>
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|losses = 2
|draws = 6
|KO = 46<ref name=archive/>
}}
'''Gustav Wilhelm Hermann''' "'''Bubi'''" '''Scholz''' (12 April 1930 – 21 August 2000)<ref name=deutsche-biographie.de>{{cite web|title=Scholz, Gustav ("Bubi")|last=Marschalek|first=Oliver|url=http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz115725.html|work=[[Neue Deutsche Biographie]]|volume=23|year=2007|pages=460–461|accessdate=30 April 2014}}</ref> was a [[Germans|German]] boxer. He was popularly called '''Bubi'''.<ref name=cnnsi/> In the 1950s and early 1960s he won the German National Boxing Championship and European Boxing Championship several times. After his retirement in 1964, he acted in six films and several TV series. Scholz married twice, and was imprisoned for three years on charges of murdering his first wife. He developed [[dementia]] and was diagnosed with [[Alzheimer's disease]] in his later life. He attempted suicide twice and died at the age of 70 due to [[cardiac arrest]].
==Early life==
Gustav Wilhelm Hermann Scholz was born to a blacksmith<ref name=archive>{{cite web|title=Die Stationen des "Bubi" Scholz
==Career==
In 1947, Scholz attended a boxing school in Berlin.<ref name=von/> On 8 October 1948, he was a last-minute replacement for a professional match against Werner Eichler, though he had not previously competed as an amateur, and he won the fight.<ref name=archive/><ref name=cnnsi>{{cite
On 19 May 1951, Scholz won a points victory against defending champion Walter Schneider and became the German champion in the welterweight category for the first time.<ref name=archive/><ref name=von/> He defended his title successfully against Charles Oechsle and Leo Starosch in 1952.<ref name=archive/> At the end of 1952, Scholz put his championship title in the welterweight division and stepped down from the middleweight category. In 1954 he appeared in [[Madison Square Garden]] in his first U.S. match, defeating American boxer [[Al Andrews]].<ref name=cnnsi/> In 1955 he was diagnosed with [[tuberculosis]],<ref name=cnnsi/> which forced him to take a one and a half year sabbatical.
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After recovering from his illness, he won a knockout match against defending champion [[Peter Müller (boxer)|Peter Müller]] in a 29 June 1957 German middleweight championship.<ref name=cnnsi/><ref name=von/> He defended the title with another knockout victory in May 1958 against Max Resch. On 4 October 1958, he defeated Charles Humez<ref name=von/><ref name=tagesspiegel/> in Berlin's [[Olympiastadion (Berlin)|Olympiastadion]] by technical knockout in the 12th round, and thus won the European Championship in the middleweight division. Humez announced his retirement on 18 January 1989.<ref name=boxrec>{{cite web|title=Gustav Scholz - Boxer|url=http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=28407&cat=boxer|publisher=boxrec.com|accessdate=3 May 2014}}</ref> Scholz successfully defended both titles against Hans Werner Wohlers (by point victory in July 1959) and against Peter Müller<ref name=tagesspiegel/> (by technical knockout in the first round in November 1959). He successfully defended his European title against Andre Drille in December 1959. In the same year, he published the book ''Ring Free'' with memories of the beginnings of his career.
In 1961 Scholz put down his two middleweight title and moved to the light heavyweight division. In this class, he lost a fight against [[Harold Johnson (boxer)|Harold Johnson]] for the championship on 23 June 1962,<ref name=archive/><ref name=tagesspiegel>{{cite web|title=Bubi Scholz ist tot: Eine Nation lag ihm zu Füßen |
Between 1948 and 1964 Scholz had a total of 96 fights, of which he won 88, including 46 by knockout; only two times he lost,<ref name=von/> both on points. His success as a boxer earned him great popularity in Germany, especially in the 1950s and 1960s when he was compared to [[Max Schmeling]], the most prominent boxing star of Germany.<ref name=muller/>
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His success in boxing brought him a short-lived career in the entertainment industry. He appeared in 1960 as Boxer Breitenbach in the television production ''The Champion Boxer''. That same year, he played the role of Ralf Moebius in Paul Martin's musical comedy ''Marina''. In the ''Music Film Hit Parade 1961'' by Franz Marischka, he was known as Ralf Hegener. In 1959 and 1962 he collaborated with the Werner Müller orchestra and the vocal group The 3 Travellers at [[Telefunken]] and Metronomes, and released three music singles.<ref name=music/>
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Following his career as a professional boxer, Scholz opened the advertising agency Zühlke and Scholz in Berlin, trying to build on his popularity as an athlete. In 1971, he was seen in a supporting role as a police officer in Thomas Engel's teleplay ''Lucky''. In 1977, he made a guest appearance as a boxing coach in the 20th episode of the TV comedy series ''Odds and Ends''. In 1980, he published his autobiography, ''The Way Out of Nowhere'',<ref name=archive/> but received negative publicity in those years due to his drinking habits.<ref name=von/>
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[[File:Bubi scholz grave.jpg|220px|thumb| Scholz's original grave in the Woodland Cemetery, [[Zehlendorf (Berlin)|Zehlendorf]].]]
On the evening of 22 July 1984, Scholz shot his 49-year-old wife Helga,<ref name=archive/><ref name=von/> whom he had married in 1955, in their Berlin villa. He was arrested the following day. Helga was buried two weeks later in the presence of approximately 1,000 people.<ref>{{cite web|last=Nestler|first=Stefan|title=23.7.1984: Bubi Scholz verhaftet|
In October 1993, Scholz married Sabine Arndt.<ref name=archive/><ref name=von/> During
==''The Bubi Scholz Story''==
In 1997--98, director [[Roland Suso Richter]] filmed ''{{Ill|The Bubi Scholz Story|de|Die Bubi-Scholz-Story}}'' for television from a screenplay by [[Uwe Timm]], with [[Benno Fürmann]] in the role of young Scholz and [[Götz George]] playing the adult Scholz.<ref name=von/> Scholz himself could not attend the premiere of the film in May 1998 due to his poor health. This was Fürmann's breakthrough starring<ref name="ReimerReimer2010">{{cite book|last1=Reimer|first1=Robert Charles|last2=Reimer|first2=Carol J.|title=The A to Z of German Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nqCa1YYd9ncC&pg=PA120|year=2010|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-0-8108-7611-8|page=120}}</ref> and he received the German TV Award as Best Actor in a telefilm, for the role of Scholz.<ref>{{cite web|title=Speed Racer|url=http://emol.org/film/archives/speedracer/cast.html|publisher=emol.org|accessdate=14 May 2014}}</ref>
==Autobiography==
* ''Ring Free''. Recorded by Harvey T. Rowe. Copress-Verlag, Munich 1959.
* ''The Road Out of Nowhere''. Krüger, Frankfurt am Main 1980, {{ISBN
==Filmography==
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{{Commons category|Bubi Scholz}}
*{{IMDb name|0774670}}
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