Abstract
This chapter focuses on Schmeling’s career in the USA. The manner in which he came to be associated not just with American boxing but with implicitly American qualities is assessed, and a detailed examination of the responses to Schmeling’s world title victory in 1930, when he became world champion after his opponent was disqualified for a foul blow, is presented. This chapter concludes by considering three of the key aspects of Schmeling’s public image in the final years of the Weimar Republic, all of which emerged under the influence of “Americanism”. It considers the myth of the so-called self-made man and the appeal of “success” stories, the representation of Schmeling as a professional and his representation as an embodiment of contemporary notions of Sachlichkeit (objectivity), rationalization and efficiency.
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