Harry Stein

Harry Stein (born January 20, 1905, in Bytom, than East Prussia; date of death unknown, before 1948) was a German amateur boxing champion in 1922 and 1923 in the flyweight(- 51 kg) and featherweight divisions, who won the BDB German Flyweight Championship in 1925, and the VDF German Featherweight Championship in 1932.

In the 1920s Stein was recognized by the German Maccabee organization, boxing club, 'Jüdischer Boxclub Maccabi' of Berlin with a boxing trophy on the occasion of his 30th fight. The Maccabee organization managed a few German gyms for Jewish youth in Germany, which included a club in Berlin that featured boxing training. The sizable Macabee organization would move its headquarters from Berlin to London in July 1933, around the same time Stein would move to Poland to escape the rise of the Nazis who had come to power in Germany that January.

Early conquest of the BDB and VDF German Flyweight championships, 1925-6 He took the BDB German Flyweight Championship from Friedrich Schmidt in a twelfth-round knockout on June 16, 1925, in Platz, Germany. In a defense of the title on June 18, 1926, Stein also took the VDF German National Flyweight Championship in a tenth-round knockout of Schmidt at the Radrennbahn in Treptow, Germany. He had first defeated Schmidt on August 15, 1924, in Hannover, Germany in an eighth round points decision.

Only months after relinquishing the German Featherweight Title, Stein was forced to flee Germany for Prague, Poland, to escape Nazi persecution in 1933, where he continued to box at least through 1937. Another top Jewish German boxer, Eric Seelig a German national middle and light heavyweight champion, had had his titles stripped by the Nazis, and had been forced to flee Germany the same year for France.

Up until his death, he trained Russian amateur boxers, likely in the area of Moscow, where he had fled by the 1940s. The exact date of his death is unknown, but it is believed to have been prior to 1948.