Georg Baumann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Georg Baumann

Estonian wrestler

Date of Birth: 01-Sep-1892

Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: amateur wrestler

Nationality: Estonia

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Georg Baumann (1 September 1892 – before 19 February 1934) was an Estonian wrestler who competed for the Russian Empire, and was world champion in Greco-Roman wrestling.He competed in the Greco-Roman lightweight competition along with two other Estonians, August Kippasto and Oskar Kaplur, at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, where he was eliminated after losing against later winner Emil Väre and Johan Alfred Salonen.He was the lightweight class World champion at the 1913 Wrestling World Championships in Breslau.
In the same year he won a gold in Russian Olympiad and he was awarded the title Best Amateur Wrestler of the Baltic States.
Although some sources claim that he was killed during World War I there are reports of him moving to China in 1922 where he worked as wrestler and circus artist.
His death was reported in Russian language Chinese newspaper Shanghaiskaya Zarya on 19 February 1934.