Alfred dearest

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Alfred Liebster (born March 14, 1910 in Vienna , † 2000 in the London Borough of Camden ) was an Austrian table tennis player .

Alfred Liebster played in a club in the Vienna district of Währing in the 1920s and later (1937) in the Vienna Tram Association. He represented Austria at eleven world championships from 1928 to 1938 . In 1928 he was world champion in doubles with Robert Thum , in 1936 he won the title with the Austrian team. In addition, there are six silver and eight bronze medals. In the ITTF world rankings , he was ranked second in 1928.

In 1929, 1932 and 1937 he was national Austrian champion in individual. In March 1940 he took part in the English Open at Wembley, where he lost to Richard Bergmann in the final and won the doubles competition with Bergmann.

Alfred Liebster lived in Vienna on Währinger Strasse from October 1929 to June 1938 , after which he had to emigrate to England due to his half-Jewish descent. He lived in London at 4 Candover Street until his death in 2000. His widowed wife continued to live in London until she was 95.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
AUT World Championship 1938 Wembley CLOSELY last 128 Quarter finals Semifinals 2
AUT World Championship 1937 to bathe AUT last 64 last 16 no participants 4th
AUT World Championship 1936 Prague TCH last 64 last 64 last 32 1
AUT World Championship 1935 Wembley CLOSELY last 16 silver no participants 3
AUT World Championship 1934 Paris FRA last 128 last 16 no participants 2
AUT World Championship 1933 to bathe AUT last 32 Semifinals Quarter finals 3
AUT World Championship 1932 Prague TCH last 128 last 64 last 16 3
AUT World Championship 1931 Budapest HUN Agony Semifinals last 16 6th
AUT World Championship 1930 Berlin FRG Quarter finals silver Quarter finals 4th
AUT World Championship 1929 Budapest HUN last 16 last 16 Semifinals 2
AUT World Championship 1928 Stockholm SWE Semifinals gold Scratched 2

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Official information from the Vienna City and State Archives from May 10, 2012 - OTRS ticket
  2. ↑ England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007 (accessed May 19, 2020)
  3. ↑ The Table Tennis Collector, issue 59, page 10 ( Memento from April 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)
  4. ↑ Magazine Tennis & Golf 1932/2 Page 39
  5. ↑ Sport-Tagblatt : January 22, 1938, page 5 (accessed June 21, 2013)
  6. ↑ Historical world rankings ( Memento from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)
  7. ^ Bob Wechsler: Day by day in Jewish sports history , KTAV Publishing House, Inc., 2008, ISBN 978-0881259698 , page 76 - Online (accessed April 29, 2012)
  8. ^ Alfred Liebster Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed April 27, 2012)
personal data
SURNAME Dearest, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 2000
Place of death London Borough of Camden