Horst Stump

Horst Stump died in November 2018 in Popești-Leordeni, after spending the last years of his life struggling with poverty and living in a container.

In 1977, Stump was used by Romania's Securitate to terrorize Paul Goma, a dissident and leading opponent of the communist regime. In March 1977, Stump was sent three times by the Securitate to Goma's home in order to beat him up, Goma mentioned the events in three of his books: "Scrisuri I" (Writings I), "Culorile Curcubeului" (The colors of the rainbow) and "Infarct" (Stroke). In April 1977, Associated Press and Agence France-Presse wrote about the incident and United States president, Jimmy Carter showed his concern for Goma. According to former Securitate general Ion Mihai Pacepa's book "Orizonturi roșii" (Red horizons), the dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu, who was interested in having a good diplomatic relationship with Carter sent somebody to lie to Carter about the "Goma problem", but that person told Carter in a codified language the truth. Following this event, Ceaușescu ordered for Goma to be "beaten hard", so Stump was sent once again to beat up Goma, Pacepa saying in his book that the following day, the Deputy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Nicolae Pleșiță described to him, hit by hit how Stump had beaten Goma. Pacepa also says in his book that Ceaușescu nominally asked for Stump to be disguised as a street sweeper in order to catch and beat a foreign diplomat who had refused to be Romania's spy agent.

He reached four Romanian amateur boxing championship finals, winning one in 1970 against Alec Năstac, losing the other three, two in favor of Alec Năstac and one in favor of Ion Covaci. The highlight of his career was the winning of a bronze medal at the 1971 European Amateur Boxing Championships from Madrid, after managing to defeat Antonio dos Santos and Harald Skog, losing in the semifinals against Mate Parlov. In 1972, Stump participated at the first edition of the Golden belt international tournament, organized by Romania, reaching the final where he lost in front of Gilberto Carrillo.

Horst Adolf Stump (9 January 1944 – November 2018), also known as Horst Stumpf or Horst Stumf, was a Romanian boxer.

Horst Adolf Stump was born on 9 January 1944 in Sibiu, being the 9th child of a Transylvanian Saxon family. His parents were killed by Russians during World War II, right after he was born, being raised together with his brothers by his grandparents.