Karl-Heinz Eckardt

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Karl-Heinz Eckardt (born May 7, 1912 in Stettin ; † October 20, 1957 ) was a versatile German athlete , table tennis player and functionary. As a businessman , he worked for table tennis in various parts of Germany and held a leading position at the Württemberg and Schleswig-Holstein associations , before becoming the fourth president of the German Table Tennis Federation (DTTB) from 1949 until his death and from 1951 a member of the board of the ITTF world association was.

More active

Eckardt first played for Viktoria Magdeburg and then moved to SV Darmstadt 98 , with whom he was German runner-up behind the Kiel TTK in the 1932/33 season . Before the Second World War he was still active in athletics and handball at Eintracht Frankfurt . He later joined the Stuttgarter Kickers and took on his first official duties in Württemberg. At the World Championships in 1952 and 1953 , he entered the doubles competitions.

National functionary

From 1936 to 1937 Eckardt was a table tennis specialist in Württemberg . During his tenure, the Württemberg ranking was introduced. At the end of the 1930s he worked professionally in England for a year and a half, after which he organized table tennis in the - now Polish - Warthegau until 1941 . From 1941 he worked as a commercial director in Norway, where he was interned . After the end of the war he played a major role in the rebuilding of table tennis in Germany.

Living in Lübeck, he became district warden of Lübeck in 1945, and from 1947 to 1950 chairman of the Schleswig-Holstein table tennis association . In April 1949 he dissolved Dr. Fritz Rosinius on the post of chairman of the "working committee". When the German Table Tennis Association (DTTB) was officially re -established at the end of October 1949 , Eckardt was elected President. During his term of office, the Saarland Association, which was independent until then, was incorporated into the DTTB in October 1956.

Around 1951 he worked as a director of an insurance company.

International functionary

Eckardt also took on official duties internationally. In 1951 he was appointed to the board of the world association ITTF , where he worked in six working groups, including leading the materials committee. The ITTF Congress elected him in 1957 as Vice President to succeed the resigned Marcel Corbillon .

Eckardt's main merit is to have reintegrated Germany, which was isolated after the Second World War, into the international community.

Demise

In October 1957 Eckardt died of the consequences of a pulmonary embolism after having survived gastric surgery a few weeks earlier. He was buried in the main cemetery in Frankfurt . He left a wife. His successor as DTTB President was Carl Adloff .

Karl-Heinz Eckardt Memorial Cup

In 1958 the "German Cup Championship" competition was introduced, a request from Karl-Heinz Eckardt. Club teams consisting of three players determine the winner at the association level. The association winners play the DTTB cup winners in the knockout system. The Eckardt Cup was donated as a challenge cup for the winner . The men held the competition for the first time in 1958, and the women followed a year later. This trophy went missing and reappeared in an antique market in Osnabrück in 1998. Today he is again in possession of the DTTB.

Web links

  • Karl-Heinz Eckardt Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on July 24, 2014)
  • Obituary by Ivor Montagu in Table Tennis News, November 1957, page 15 Online (accessed July 24, 2014)

Sources and individual references

  • Klaus Rhenius: Karl-Heinz Eckardt † , DTS magazine , 1957/21 West issue pp. 1–2
  • Manfred Schäfer: A game for life. 75 years of DTTB. (1925-2000) . Published by the German Table Tennis Association. DTTB, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-00-005890-7 , p. 207.
  • mr: Das Bundespräsidium , DTS magazine , 1951/19 issue west-south p. 2
  • Klaus Rhenius: Karl Eckardt Memorial Cup… , DTS magazine , 1958/3 West issue p. 2
  1. ↑ Information according to official information from the Lübeck registration office on the personal register card , see OTRS ticket . The year of birth 1910 given in the anniversary book 75 Years of the German Table Tennis Association - A Game for Life is therefore incorrect.
  2. ↑ 50 Years Table Tennis Association Württemberg-Hohenzollern - 1996, publisher: Tischtennisverband Württemberg-Hohenzollern eV, Stuttgart, pp. 6-7
  3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1957/8 West issue p. 4
  4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1965/21 issue West p. 2
  5. ↑ Tischtennis Magazin, official organ of the Lower Saxony table tennis association 2007/4 p. 12 + DTS magazine 1958/7 West p. 12
  6. ↑ DTS magazine , 1998/8 p. 32
personal data
SURNAME Eckardt, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports official, President of the German Table Tennis Association
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1957