[4] On 8 October 1948, he was a last-minute replacement for a professional match against Werner Eichler, though he had not previously competed as an amateur, and he won the fight.

[1] At the end of 1952, Scholz put his championship title in the welterweight division and stepped down from the middleweight category.

In 1954 he appeared in Madison Square Garden in his first U.S. match, defeating American boxer Al Andrews.

After recovering from his illness, he won a knockout match against defending champion Peter Müller in a 29 June 1957 German middleweight championship.

On 4 October 1958, he defeated Charles Humez[4][7] in Berlin's Olympiastadion by technical knockout in the 12th round, and thus won the European Championship in the middleweight division.

[6] Scholz successfully defended both titles against Hans Werner Wohlers (by point victory in July 1959) and against Peter Müller[7] (by technical knockout in the first round in November 1959).

That same year, he played the role of Ralf Moebius in Paul Martin's musical comedy Marina.

In 1959 and 1962 he collaborated with the Werner Müller orchestra and the vocal group The 3 Travellers at Telefunken and Metronomes, and released three music singles.

In 1977, he made a guest appearance as a boxing coach in the 20th episode of the TV comedy series Odds and Ends.

[4] On 1 February 1985, the court sentenced him to custodial arrest for three years on the charge of manslaughter and violation of the Arms Act of Germany.

This was Fürmann's breakthrough starring[10] and he received the German TV Award as Best Actor in a telefilm, for the role of Scholz.