Austrian table tennis association
The Austrian Table Tennis Association (ÖTTV) is the national table tennis association in Austria . The ÖTTV selection team is the Austrian national table tennis team .
Regional associations
The ÖTTV is divided into the 9 regional associations
- Burgenland TT Association (BTTV)
- Carinthian TT Association (KTTV)
- Lower Austrian TT Association (NÖTTV)
- Upper Austrian TT Association (OÖTTV)
- Salzburg TT Association (STTV)
- Styrian TT Association (STTTV)
- Tyrolean TT Association (TTTV)
- Vorarlberg TT Association (VTTV)
- Vienna TT Association (WTTV)
history
Although there were a few ping-pong clubs in Vienna as early as 1921 and a championship for teams and individual players had been launched, it was not until 1923 that Edgar Dietrichstein founded the Vienna Table Tennis Association (WTTV) . The Vienna Table Tennis Association was transferred to the Austrian Table Tennis Association (ÖTTV) based in Vienna in 1930 .
Since there were club structures mainly in the Vienna area, the ÖTTV was practically the same as the WTTV.
In 1926 they participated in the founding of the ITTF and are thus one of the nine founding members of the world association.
From 1927, the number of clubs and active members in Austria grew continuously. They also played in the top of the world and won several world championship titles, for example Richard Bergmann , Alfred Liebster , Trude Pritzi and Gertrude Wildam .
The positive development ended in 1938 with the annexation of Austria to the German Reich . Jewish players and officials were excluded from the sporting business, which largely led to the decline of ÖTTV. In 1942 the Austrian Table Tennis Association was deleted as an association.
Reconstruction after the Second World War began as early as October 1945 , operated primarily by Anita and Heinrich Nitschmann, Kurt Kunodi, Konrad Neidhart, Robert Thum and Franz Linhart. The still existing personal union with the Vienna Table Tennis Association was ended with the establishment of the independent WTTV on June 4, 1947. In 1948 Axel Hohler published the first Austrian table tennis magazine, Österreichische Tischtennisrundschau . In 1957 the ÖTTV was one of the 17 founding members of the European Table Tennis Union ETTU .
In 1962, the state league was founded as the top division for men's teams. The following 12 teams started in the first season:
- Vienna Federal Railway
- Energie Wien
- Puch Graz
- Vienna Vienna
- Alpine Donawitz
- TSV Fulpmes (Tyrol)
- ASK Salzburg
- Baden AC
- Union Gmunden (Upper Austria)
- Chamber of Commerce Graz
- SV Semperit Traiskirchen
- Union Salzburg
In 1948 there were around 200 clubs and 5,000 active members in the ÖTTV, and in October 2002 there were 545 clubs with 26,553 players.
In September 2015, the ÖTTV men's team became European champions in the team competition at the 2015 European Table Tennis Championships in Yekaterinburg for the first time in ÖTTV history, ten years after winning the silver medal at the 2005 European Table Tennis Championships in Aarhus.
By 2015, ÖTTV won a total of 35 medals at European championships, including seven gold, ten silver and 18 bronze medals.
President
- October 1928 - October 1934: Hans Thanhofer and Heinrich Pirker (Pirker probably from March 1933)
- from October 1934: Eugen Grabscheid
- around 1947 - around 1955: Kurt Kunodi
- around 1957: Gustav Stelzmüller
- around 1965: Kurt Kunodi
- around 1971 - around 1985: Karl Smekal
- 1987–1993: Rudolf Weinmann
- 1993–1999: Reinhard Engel
- 1999–2013: Gottfried Forsthuber
- since November 2013: Hans Friedinger
National championships
The national championships were originally held under the title Austrian Championship . At the end of 1934 they were called the Austrian State Championships .
Magazines
From 1948 to 1949 Alexander Hohler gave the Austrian table tennis review . Due to financial difficulties with a circulation of no more than 1000 copies, he discontinued the magazine after 10 issues. From 1950, Hohler was the editor of the table tennis magazine published by the Austrian Table Tennis Association . In 1959 he ended his collaboration.
From 1964 onwards, the association for the promotion of TT sport in Austria in Vienna published the table tennis show on the initiative of Anton Luger . In the following years six issues appeared before the publication (before 1969) ceased.
Today the Austrian table tennis newspaper ÖTTZ informs the professional world.
Honorary members
- Kurt Kunodi (* 1909 or 1910; † 1993) honorary president and since 1957 honorary member of the world association ITTF
- Anita Nitschmann (* 1899; † December 1974 in Vienna), since 1924 working for Austrian table tennis, married to Heinrich Nitschmann
Individual evidence
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1954/6 p. 3
- ↑ Magazine DTS , 1962/15 Edition West p 4 + 1963/6 edition West p.5
- ↑ orf.at - Austria is European team champion . Article dated September 29, 2015, accessed September 30, 2015.
- ↑ orf.at - All ÖTTV EM medals . Retrieved October 4, 2015.
- ↑ (Wiener) Sporttagblatt, November 29, 1930, page 8 (beginning) + October 10, 1934, page 5 (end)
- ^ (Wiener) Sporttagblatt, October 13, 1928, page 8 (beginning) Online
- ↑ NÖ - Tischtennis-Nachrichten 1983/9 p. 27 Online (accessed on May 14, 2012) (PDF; 1.3 MB) - * September 1, 1904 in Baden (Lower Austria) ; † beginning of 1986; worked as a physicist in New York since 1938 (accessed May 14, 2012)
- ↑ Lower Austrian TT Association - Circular 1949 No. 32 + 1955 No. 4
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1957/21 issue West p. 3
- ↑ Austrian Table Tennis Show 1965/05 page 10 (accessed on March 4, 2011) (PDF; 2.7 MB)
- ↑ Austrian Table Tennis Show 1971/03 page 57 (PDF; 3.6 MB) + NOETTV chronicle (accessed on March 15, 2011; PDF; 93 kB)
- ↑ NOE TT News 1987/8 page 5 (accessed on November 18, 2012; PDF; 2.7 MB)
- ↑ http://www.oettv.org/de/menu_2/national2 (accessed on February 16, 2011)
- ↑ new President Hans Friedinger (accessed December 6, 2013)
- ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2013/12 page 5
- ↑ (Wiener) Sporttagblatt, January 9, 1935, page 4 Online (accessed November 8, 2019)
- ↑ a b Henrike and Elisabeth Willinger are sisters - DTS magazine , 1963/24 West issue p. 3
- ↑ After her marriage to the Swiss Reto Bazzi, Vera Kottek won the championship of the Swiss magazine DTS several times from 1993 under the name Vera Bazzi , 1993/5 p. 37
- ↑ Detailed report (accessed on March 18, 2006; PDF; 381 kB)
- ↑ Report ÖM 2013 (accessed on March 5, 2013)
- ↑ Report ÖM 2014 (accessed on March 4, 2014)
- ↑ Report ÖM 2015 (accessed on March 6, 2015)
- ↑ Report ÖM 2016 (accessed on May 5, 2016)
- ↑ Report ÖM 2017 (accessed on March 7, 2017)
- ↑ Report ÖM 2018 (accessed on March 6, 2018)
- ↑ XTTV tournament results. Retrieved January 22, 2020 .
- ↑ Alexander Hohler: The "table tennis magazine" - becoming and passing away of the Austrian federal newspaper. - DTS magazine , 1966/12 p. 43
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1993/5 p. 32
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1975/1 p. 16
Web links
- Austrian Table Tennis Association (accessed on February 16, 2011)
- ÖTTV Chronicle (accessed on February 16, 2011)
- Kurt Posiles: History of the Casino Baden Association; NÖ - Tischtennis-Nachrichten 1983/9 p.25-34 (accessed on May 14, 2012) (PDF; 1.3 MB)
- Circular and magazine "Tischtennis-Schau" , accessed on March 2, 2011
- From the history of Austrian table tennis , article in the (Wiener) Sporttagblatt , October 28, 1936, page 7 (accessed on September 11, 2019)