Anita Felguth
Anita Felguth, born Denker (born May 13, 1909 in Altona , † June 21, 2003 in Berlin) was a German national table tennis player . She took part in five world championships .
National successes
At the national German championships , Felguth was mostly in the shadow of the players Hilde Bussmann and Astrid Krebsbach . Therefore she reached "only" the third place in the individual in 1933, 1934, 1936 and 1940. In 1935 she lost to Astrid Krebsbach in the final, in 1940 she was second in doubles with Hilde Bussmann behind the naturalized Austrians Otti Graszl / Trude Pritzi .
At the Gaume Championships she won from 1933 with the Berlin team and from 1934 to 1936 three times in a row with Brandenburg. In the German rankings she took second place in 1935.
In 1959 she played for Rot-Weiß Hamburg and later for SC Charlottenburg .
International success
At the end of 1931, Denker won an international tournament in Paris in singles and mixed games with the Hungarian Miklós Szabados. In 1933 she finished third at the international German championships, two years later she made it to the final in doubles with Astrid Krebsbach .
From 1932 to 1936 she was nominated for all five world championships, but in 1932 and 1933 only for the individual competitions. Her greatest World Cup success was the team gold medal in 1934 and, at the same World Cup, the runner-up in doubles with Astrid Krebsbach behind the Hungarians Mária Mednyánszky / Anna Sipos . In singles, she made it to the round of 16 in 1932 and 1935 . In doubles she reached the semi-finals three times, namely in 1932 with Magda Gál , 1933 with Annemarie Schulz and 1935 with Astrid Krebsbach. With the German team she came second in 1936 and third in 1935. In 1933 she reached the quarter-finals in a mixed with Heinz Nickelsburg .
In total, Felguth played 15 international matches from 1933 to 1936.
Results overview at the world championships
Private
Anita Denker (maiden name) married Arthur Felguth on May 13, 1932, who founded the first children's and youth book publisher (Felguth-Verlag) in West Berlin in the post-war period in 1946. Anita Felguth has lived in Berlin ever since. The marriage resulted in two daughters and a son. Before her marriage she played under her maiden name Anita Denker .
origin of the name
The name Felguth is probably derived from field and guth , which means good fields . It can be traced back to Arthur Felguth's rural ancestors.
Individual evidence
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1959/22 p. 4
- ↑ Tennis & Golf magazine, sole official organ of the German Tennis Association EV, 1932/2 p. 39
- ↑ http://www.antiquariat-keune.eu/bilder/pdf/katalog_41.pdf (accessed on August 1, 2010)
swell
- 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. 208.
- ITTF Museum - Select Year (accessed August 1, 2010)
Web links
- Entry in the ITTF database
- Table tennis archive Hans-Albert Meyer (PDF file; 82 kB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Felguth, Anita |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Thinker, Anita |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German table tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 13, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Altona |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 21, 2003 |
| Place of death | Berlin |