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{{Short description|Canadian professional wrestler (1925-2012)}}
{{Infobox professional wrestler
{{Infobox professional wrestler
|name=Guy Larose
|name = Hans Schmidt
|birth_name = Guy Larose
|image= Hanswrestle.jpg|225px
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|birth_date = {{Birth date|1925|2|7|mf=y}}
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|birth_place = [[Joliette]], [[Quebec]], Canada<ref name="birth_and_death">{{cite web |url=https://www.rds.ca/lutte/hans-schmidt-decede-a-l-age-de-87-ans-1.478191 |title=Hans Schmidt décède à l'âge de 87 ans |author= |date=May 28, 2012 |publisher=rds.ca |accessdate=June 11, 2018}}</ref>
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|birth_place = [[Joliette]], [[Quebec]]
|death_place = Joliette, Quebec, Canada<ref name="birth_and_death" />
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|names = Hans Schmidt<br />Guy Rose<br />Roy Asselin
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|death_date = {{Death date and age|2012|5|26|1925|2|7|mf=y}}
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|height = 6 ft 4 in<ref name=Encyclopedia/>
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|billed= [[Munich, Germany]]<ref name=Encyclopedia/>
|weight = 250 lb<ref name=Encyclopedia/>
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|trainer=
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|debut=1949
|debut = 1949
|retired=1976
|retired = 1976
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'''Guy Larose''' (February 7, 1925 &ndash; May 26, 2012), better known by his [[ring name]] of '''Hans Schmidt''', was a [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Professional wrestling|professional wrestler]] famous in the 1950s and '60s.
'''Guy Larose''' (February 7, 1925 &ndash; May 26, 2012), better known by his [[ring name]] '''Hans Schmidt.''' He was a [[Canadians|Canadian]] [[Professional wrestling|professional wrestler]] famous in the 1950s and 1960s. His gimmick that of a German pseudo-Nazi [[heel (professional wrestling)|heel]], gained him considerable notoriety and popularized the proliferation of similar gimmicks through Canadian and American wrestling.<ref name=mentalfloss>{{cite web|url=https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/501020/hans-schmidt-nazi-wrestler-who-incited-riots |title=Hans Schmidt, the "Nazi" Wrestler Who Incited Riots |date=12 September 2017 }}</ref>
<ref name=slam>{{cite web|url=https://slamwrestling.net/index.php/2012/05/28/legendary-hans-schmidt-dies-at-87/ |title=Legendary Hans Schmidt dies at 87 |date=28 May 2012 }}</ref>

==Early life==
Larose was born in [[Joliette]], [[Quebec]], in 1925 and was an [[amateur wrestler]] in his youth. He initially pursued a career in law enforcement but dropped out of the [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police]]’s training academy after being disillusioned by its treatment of [[Indigenous peoples in Canada|Indigenous]] people.


==Wrestling career==
==Wrestling career==
Larose used a background in [[amateur wrestling]] to break into the pro business after [[World War II]], wrestling as a [[face (professional wrestling)|babyface]] under his own name with modest success early on.<ref name="slam obit">{{cite web |url=http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2012/05/28/19806356.html |title=Legendary Hans Schmidt dies at 87 |author=Greg Oliver |date=May 28, 2012 |work= |publisher=SLAM! Wrestling |accessdate=May 28, 2012}}</ref> Then in 1951 the [[Boston]]-area promoter [[Paul Bowser]], who thought the tall, naturally balding Franco-[[Quebec|Québécois]] looked like a [[Germany|German]], rechristened him Hans Schmidt. Playing the character of an 'evil German', Schmidt became one of the first great [[Heel (professional wrestling)|heels]] of televised wrestling in the 1950s, drawing the hatred of fans as he battled their [[United States|American]] [[Face (professional wrestling)|babyface]] heroes of the squared circle. In the 1998 [[A&E Network|A&E]] documentary ''[[The Unreal Story of Professional Wrestling]]'', Hans Schmidt was labeled "the classic foreign villain" - tapping into lingering anti-German sentiment in America following World War II, Schmidt was a forerunner of many other wrestling characters that successfully used the "anti-American foreigner" [[Glossary of professional wrestling terms#Gimmick|gimmick]] to enrage the crowd, such as [[Nikolai Volkoff]] and [[The Iron Sheik]].
Larose used a background in [[amateur wrestling]] to break into the pro-business after [[World War II]], wrestling as a [[face (professional wrestling)|babyface]] under his name with modest success early on.<ref name="slam obit">{{cite web |url=https://slamwrestling.net/index.php/2012/05/28/legendary-hans-schmidt-dies-at-87/ |title=Legendary Hans Schmidt dies at 87 |author=Greg Oliver |date=May 28, 2012 |publisher=SLAM! Wrestling |accessdate=May 28, 2012}}</ref> Then, in 1951, the [[Boston]]-area promoter [[Paul Bowser]], who thought the tall, naturally balding Franco-[[Quebec|Québécois]] looked like a [[Germany|German]], renamed him Hans Schmidt. Playing the character of an 'evil German', Schmidt became one of the first great [[Heel (professional wrestling)|heels]] of televised wrestling in the 1950s, drawing the hatred of fans as he battled their [[Americans|American]] [[Face (professional wrestling)|babyface]] heroes of the squared circle. In the 1998 [[A&E Network|A&E]] documentary ''[[The Unreal Story of Professional Wrestling]]'', Hans Schmidt was labeled "the classic foreign villain" - tapping into lingering anti-German sentiment in America following World War II, Schmidt was a forerunner of many other wrestling characters that successfully used the "anti-American foreigner" [[Glossary of professional wrestling terms#Gimmick|gimmick]] to enrage the crowd, such as [[Nikolai Volkoff]] and [[The Iron Sheik]].


Nicknamed '''The Teuton Terror''', Schmidt wrestled a rough, aggressive rule-breaker's style.<ref name=Encyclopedia>{{cite book|title=WWE Encyclopedia|last1=Shields|first1=Brian|last2=Sullivan|first2=Kevin|page=121|publisher=[[Dorling Kindersley|DK]]|year=2009|isbn=978-0-7566-4190-0}}</ref> He often finished his opponents off with a backbreaker, and was also known to use the piledriver as well. Fellow wrestlers recalled that he liked to work [[Stiff (professional wrestling)#Stiff|stiff]] on them, particularly with his boots, a practice for which he earned the nickname of "Footsie".<ref name="slam imprint">{{cite web |url=http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2012/05/28/19807086.html |title=The imprint of Hans Schmidt |author=Greg Oliver |date=May 28, 2012 |work= |publisher=SLAM! Wrestling |accessdate=May 28, 2012}}</ref>
Nicknamed '''The Teuton Terror''', Schmidt wrestled a rough, aggressive, scientific style, often with rule-breaking.<ref name=Encyclopedia>{{cite book|title=WWE Encyclopedia|last1=Shields|first1=Brian|last2=Sullivan|first2=Kevin|page=[https://archive.org/details/wweencyclopediad0000shie/page/121 121]|publisher=[[Dorling Kindersley|DK]]|year=2009|isbn=978-0-7566-4190-0|url=https://archive.org/details/wweencyclopediad0000shie/page/121}}</ref> He often finished his opponents off with a backbreaker, and was also known to use the piledriver as well. Fellow wrestlers recalled that he liked to work [[Stiff (professional wrestling)#Stiff|stiff]] on them, particularly with his boots, a practice for which he earned the nickname "Footsie".<ref name="slam imprint">{{cite web |url=https://slamwrestling.net/index.php/2012/05/28/the-imprint-of-hans-schmidt/ |title=The imprint of Hans Schmidt |author=Greg Oliver |date=May 28, 2012 |publisher=SLAM! Wrestling |accessdate=May 28, 2012}}</ref>


Schmidt wrestled in territories all over North America but was a particularly big name in [[Chicago]], [[Milwaukee]] and [[Toronto]]. By 1954 he was so thoroughly hated by wrestling audiences that he turned [["Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers]] into a face simply by wrestling a match against him. He later said that at the peak of his career, between live events and TV tapings he was wrestling as many as eight matches a week.<ref name="slam bio">{{cite web |url=http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/Bios/schmidt.html |title=SLAM! Wrestling Canadian Hall of Fame: Hans Schmidt |author= |date= |work= |publisher=SLAM! Wrestling |accessdate=May 28, 2012}}</ref>
Schmidt wrestled in territories all over North America but was particularly a big name in [[Chicago]], [[Milwaukee]] and [[Toronto]]. By 1954, he was so thoroughly hated by wrestling audiences that he turned [["Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers]] into a face simply by wrestling a match against him. He later said that at the peak of his career, between live events and TV tapings, he was wrestling as many as eight matches a week.<ref name="slam bio">{{cite web |url=https://slamwrestling.net/index.php/1998/12/22/slam-wrestling-canadian-hall-of-fame-hans-schmidt/ |title=SLAM! Wrestling Canadian Hall of Fame: Hans Schmidt |author= |date= 23 December 1998|publisher=SLAM! Wrestling |accessdate=May 28, 2012}}</ref>


Schmidt wrestled [[Lou Thesz]] several times for the [[NWA World Heavyweight Championship]], and faced many other legends of the era such as [[Verne Gagne]], [[Antonino Rocca]] and [[Whipper Billy Watson]]. He was naturally partnered up in [[tag team]] action with other 'evil German' wrestlers around at the time, such as [[Karl von Hess]] and [[Ludwig von Krupp]]. He also frequently tag teamed with [[Dick Brower|Dick 'The Bulldog' Brower]]. In the wake of Schmidt's success in drawing [[Heat (professional wrestling)|heel heat]], other wrestlers took the 'German heel' gimmick and pushed it to greater extremes with [[Goose-Step|goose-stepping]], [[Hitler salute|fascist saluting]] and use of [[Nazi]] iconography. Schmidt never took it to this level himself, though he was known to wear a helmet to the ring later in his career.
Schmidt wrestled [[Lou Thesz]] several times for the [[NWA World Heavyweight Championship]] and faced many other legends of the era, such as [[Verne Gagne]], [[Antonino Rocca]] and [[Whipper Billy Watson]]. He was naturally partnered up in [[tag team]] action with other 'evil German' wrestlers around at the time, such as [[Karl von Hess]] and Ludwig von Krupp. He also frequently tag-teamed with [[Dick Brower|Dick 'The Bulldog' Brower]]. In the wake of Schmidt's success in drawing [[Heat (professional wrestling)|heel heat]], other wrestlers took the 'German heel' gimmick and pushed it to greater extremes with [[Goose-Step|goose-stepping]], [[Hitler salute|fascist saluting]] and the use of [[Nazi]] iconography. Schmidt never took it to this level himself, though he was known to wear a helmet to the ring later in his career.


Near the end of his career in the 1970s, Schmidt worked around the [[Montreal]] region, still a heel but billed as hailing from Chicago. Guy Larose spent his retirement years in the [[Laurentian mountains|Laurentians]] north of Montreal until his death on May 26, 2012. He is survived by two children as well as his wife and stepchildren.<ref name="slam obit" />
Near the end of his career in the 1970s, Schmidt worked around the [[Montreal]] region, still a heel but billed as hailing from Chicago. In 1975, Schimdt worked for [[New Japan Pro Wrestling]]. He retired from wrestling in 1976.


During the 1980s, a man named M.L. Smith appeared on the game show Card Sharks, claiming to have wrestled as Hans Schmidt. Guy Larose spent his retirement years in the [[Laurentian Mountains]] north of Montreal until his death on May 26, 2012. He is survived by two children, as well as his wife and stepchildren.<ref name="slam obit" />
== In wrestling ==
*'''Finishing moves'''
**[[Backbreaker#Pendulum backbreaker|Backbreaker]]
**[[Piledriver (professional wrestling)|Piledriver]]
**[[Neckbreaker#Swinging neckbreaker|Swinging Neckbreaker]]


== Championships and accomplishments ==
== Championships and accomplishments ==
*'''[[Johnny Rougeau|All-Star Wrestling (Montreal)]]'''
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**[[MAC World Heavyweight Championship|World/International Heavyweight Championship ''(Montreal version)'']] (5 times)
*'''[[American Wrestling Association]]'''
*'''[[American Wrestling Association]]'''
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**International Heavyweight Championship ''(Montreal version)'' (2 times)
**[[AWA United States Heavyweight Championship]] ([[AWA United States Heavyweight Championship#title history|1 time]])
**[[AWA United States Heavyweight Championship]] ([[AWA United States Heavyweight Championship#title history|1 time]])
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*'''[[Big Time Wrestling (Boston)|Big Time Wrestling]]'''
**BTW United States Heavyweight Championship (1 time)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://solie.org/titlehistories/ushtwwab.html |title=Big Time Wrestling United States Heavyweight Title History |last=Marks |first=Marky |year=2003 |publisher=[[Solie's Title Histories]] |work=Solie.org |access-date= |archive-date=2020-11-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117135007/https://solie.org/titlehistories/ushtwwab.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/newengland/bigtime/bigtime-us-h.html |title=United States Heavyweight Title (Massachusetts) |author= |year=2003 |publisher=Puroresu Dojo |work=Wrestling-Titles.com |access-date= |archive-date=2020-11-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117135027/https://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/newengland/bigtime/bigtime-us-h.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*'''[[Fred Kohler Enterprises]]'''
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**[[NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (Detroit version)|NWA United States Heavyweight Championship ''(Chicago version)'']] ([[NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (Detroit version)#Title history|1 time]])
*'''[[Georgia Championship Wrestling]]'''
*'''[[Georgia Championship Wrestling]]'''
**NWA Georgia Southern Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with [[El Mongol]]
**NWA Georgia Southern Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with [[El Mongol]]
*'''[[National Wrestling Alliance|NWA Florida]]'''
*'''[[NWA Florida]]'''
**NWA World Television Title Championship ''(Florida Version)'' (1 time)
**NWA World Television Title Championship ''(Florida Version)'' (1 time)
*'''[[National Wrestling Alliance|NWA Detroit]]'''
*'''[[NWA Los Angeles]]'''
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**[[NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (Detroit version)|NWA United States Heavyweight Championship ''(Chicago version)'']] ([[NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (Detroit version)#Title history|1 time]])
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*'''[[National Wrestling Alliance|NWA Los Angeles]]'''
**[[NWA World Tag Team Championship (Los Angeles version)|NWA World Tag Team Championship ''(Los Angeles version)'']] ([[NWA World Tag Team Championship (Los Angeles version)#Title history|1 time]]) - with Hans Herman
**[[NWA World Tag Team Championship (Los Angeles version)|NWA World Tag Team Championship ''(Los Angeles version)'']] ([[NWA World Tag Team Championship (Los Angeles version)#Title history|1 time]]) - with Hans Herman
**[[WWA International Television Tag Team Championship]] ([[WWA International Television Tag Team Championship#Title history|1 time]]) - with Hans Herman
**[[WWA International Television Tag Team Championship]] ([[WWA International Television Tag Team Championship#Title history|1 time]]) - with Hans Herman
*'''[[Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum|Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame]]'''
*'''[[Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum|Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame]]'''
**Class of 2016<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pwinsider.com/article/97943/professional-wrestling-hall-of-fame-moving-from-upstate-new-york-to-texas.html?p=1|title=PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING HALL OF FAME MOVING FROM UPSTATE NEW YORK TO TEXAS|date=November 20, 2015|accessdate=2015-11-20|work=PWInsider}}</ref>
**Class of 2016<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pwinsider.com/article/97943/professional-wrestling-hall-of-fame-moving-from-upstate-new-york-to-texas.html?p=1|title=PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING HALL OF FAME MOVING FROM UPSTATE NEW YORK TO TEXAS|date=November 20, 2015|accessdate=2015-11-20|work=PWInsider}}</ref>
*'''[[Wrestling Observer Newsletter]]'''
*'''''[[Wrestling Observer Newsletter]]'''''
**[[Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame|Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame (Class of 2012)]]<ref>{{cite journal|last=Meltzer|first=Dave|authorlink=Dave Meltzer|date=2012-11-12|title=Nov. 12, 2012 Wrestling Observer Newsletter: WON Hall of Fame 2012 double issue, six men inducted, all the news and info from around the world and more!|periodical=[[Dave Meltzer#Wrestling Observer Newsletter|Wrestling Observer Newsletter]]|publication-place=[[Campbell, California]]|issn=1083-9593|page=8}}</ref>
**[[Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame]] (Class of 2012)<ref>{{cite journal|last=Meltzer|first=Dave|authorlink=Dave Meltzer|date=2012-11-12|title=Nov. 12, 2012 Wrestling Observer Newsletter: WON Hall of Fame 2012 double issue, six men inducted, all the news and info from around the world and more!|periodical=[[Dave Meltzer#Wrestling Observer Newsletter|Wrestling Observer Newsletter]]|publication-place=[[Campbell, California]]|issn=1083-9593|page=8}}</ref>


==References==
==References==
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== External links ==
== External links ==
*[http://www.garywill.com/wrestling/canada/schmidt.htm Canadian Pro Wrestling Page of Fame: Hans Schmidt]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070303194340/http://www.garywill.com/wrestling/canada/schmidt.htm Canadian Pro Wrestling Page of Fame: Hans Schmidt]
*[http://slam.canoe.ca/SlamWrestlingBios/schmidt.html SLAM! Wrestling Canadian Hall of Fame: Hans Schmidt]
*[https://slamwrestling.net/index.php/1998/12/22/slam-wrestling-canadian-hall-of-fame-hans-schmidt/ SLAM! Wrestling Canadian Hall of Fame: Hans Schmidt]
* {{Professional wrestling profiles}}

{{NWA World Tag Team Champions (Buffalo Athletic Club version)}}
{{NWA World Tag Team Champions (Los Angeles version)}}


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Latest revision as of 16:25, 2 December 2024

Hans Schmidt
Birth nameGuy Larose
Born(1925-02-07)February 7, 1925
Joliette, Quebec, Canada[1]
DiedMay 26, 2012(2012-05-26) (aged 87)
Joliette, Quebec, Canada[1]
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)Hans Schmidt
Guy Rose
Roy Asselin
Billed height6 ft 4 in (193 cm)[2]
Billed weight250 lb (113 kg)[2]
Billed fromMunich, Germany[2]
Debut1949
Retired1976

Guy Larose (February 7, 1925 – May 26, 2012), better known by his ring name Hans Schmidt. He was a Canadian professional wrestler famous in the 1950s and 1960s. His gimmick that of a German pseudo-Nazi heel, gained him considerable notoriety and popularized the proliferation of similar gimmicks through Canadian and American wrestling.[3] [4]

Early life

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Larose was born in Joliette, Quebec, in 1925 and was an amateur wrestler in his youth. He initially pursued a career in law enforcement but dropped out of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s training academy after being disillusioned by its treatment of Indigenous people.

Wrestling career

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Larose used a background in amateur wrestling to break into the pro-business after World War II, wrestling as a babyface under his name with modest success early on.[5] Then, in 1951, the Boston-area promoter Paul Bowser, who thought the tall, naturally balding Franco-Québécois looked like a German, renamed him Hans Schmidt. Playing the character of an 'evil German', Schmidt became one of the first great heels of televised wrestling in the 1950s, drawing the hatred of fans as he battled their American babyface heroes of the squared circle. In the 1998 A&E documentary The Unreal Story of Professional Wrestling, Hans Schmidt was labeled "the classic foreign villain" - tapping into lingering anti-German sentiment in America following World War II, Schmidt was a forerunner of many other wrestling characters that successfully used the "anti-American foreigner" gimmick to enrage the crowd, such as Nikolai Volkoff and The Iron Sheik.

Nicknamed The Teuton Terror, Schmidt wrestled a rough, aggressive, scientific style, often with rule-breaking.[2] He often finished his opponents off with a backbreaker, and was also known to use the piledriver as well. Fellow wrestlers recalled that he liked to work stiff on them, particularly with his boots, a practice for which he earned the nickname "Footsie".[6]

Schmidt wrestled in territories all over North America but was particularly a big name in Chicago, Milwaukee and Toronto. By 1954, he was so thoroughly hated by wrestling audiences that he turned "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers into a face simply by wrestling a match against him. He later said that at the peak of his career, between live events and TV tapings, he was wrestling as many as eight matches a week.[7]

Schmidt wrestled Lou Thesz several times for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship and faced many other legends of the era, such as Verne Gagne, Antonino Rocca and Whipper Billy Watson. He was naturally partnered up in tag team action with other 'evil German' wrestlers around at the time, such as Karl von Hess and Ludwig von Krupp. He also frequently tag-teamed with Dick 'The Bulldog' Brower. In the wake of Schmidt's success in drawing heel heat, other wrestlers took the 'German heel' gimmick and pushed it to greater extremes with goose-stepping, fascist saluting and the use of Nazi iconography. Schmidt never took it to this level himself, though he was known to wear a helmet to the ring later in his career.

Near the end of his career in the 1970s, Schmidt worked around the Montreal region, still a heel but billed as hailing from Chicago. In 1975, Schimdt worked for New Japan Pro Wrestling. He retired from wrestling in 1976.

During the 1980s, a man named M.L. Smith appeared on the game show Card Sharks, claiming to have wrestled as Hans Schmidt. Guy Larose spent his retirement years in the Laurentian Mountains north of Montreal until his death on May 26, 2012. He is survived by two children, as well as his wife and stepchildren.[5]

Championships and accomplishments

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Hans Schmidt décède à l'âge de 87 ans". rds.ca. May 28, 2012. Retrieved June 11, 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d Shields, Brian; Sullivan, Kevin (2009). WWE Encyclopedia. DK. p. 121. ISBN 978-0-7566-4190-0.
  3. ^ "Hans Schmidt, the "Nazi" Wrestler Who Incited Riots". 12 September 2017.
  4. ^ "Legendary Hans Schmidt dies at 87". 28 May 2012.
  5. ^ a b Greg Oliver (May 28, 2012). "Legendary Hans Schmidt dies at 87". SLAM! Wrestling. Retrieved May 28, 2012.
  6. ^ Greg Oliver (May 28, 2012). "The imprint of Hans Schmidt". SLAM! Wrestling. Retrieved May 28, 2012.
  7. ^ "SLAM! Wrestling Canadian Hall of Fame: Hans Schmidt". SLAM! Wrestling. 23 December 1998. Retrieved May 28, 2012.
  8. ^ Marks, Marky (2003). "Big Time Wrestling United States Heavyweight Title History". Solie.org. Solie's Title Histories. Archived from the original on 2020-11-17.
  9. ^ "United States Heavyweight Title (Massachusetts)". Wrestling-Titles.com. Puroresu Dojo. 2003. Archived from the original on 2020-11-17.
  10. ^ "PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING HALL OF FAME MOVING FROM UPSTATE NEW YORK TO TEXAS". PWInsider. November 20, 2015. Retrieved 2015-11-20.
  11. ^ Meltzer, Dave (2012-11-12). "Nov. 12, 2012 Wrestling Observer Newsletter: WON Hall of Fame 2012 double issue, six men inducted, all the news and info from around the world and more!". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Campbell, California: 8. ISSN 1083-9593.
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