The invention relates to a tyre gripping device of a hydraulic tyre forming vulcanizer, which is mainly used for automatically fetching tyres and releasing tyres. The tyre gripping device of the hydraulic tyre forming vulcanizer comprises a tumbler (2) and a tyre gripping machine (4) and is characterized in that the tumbler (2) comprises a regulating bracket (2.1), a connecting rod (2.2) and a support arm (2.3), wherein one end of the connecting rod (2.2) is fixed with the regulating bracket (2.1) by a locking bolt (2.7), and the other end is connected with the support arm (2.3); and the tyregripping machine (4) comprises an opening and closing cylinder (4.1), an upper gripping disk (4.2), a lower gripping disk (4.3), a gear (4.4), a spline (4.5), a junction plate (4.6), a clavus (4.7), a chain wheel (4.8), a chain (4.9), a linear guide rail (4.10) and a transmission plate (4.11). In the invention, the tumbler can be directionally adjusted, each clavus of the tyre gripping machine still keeps same roundness, tyre gripping radius can be adjusted, and the invention has small volume, small weight, good concentricity and small mechanical shock.