August Tiedtke

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August Tiedtke
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Personal details
birthday March 3, 1913
place of birth Duisburg
date of death July 11, 1972
Place of death Saarbrücken
nationality GermanyGermany Germany
Nickname (s) King August
Active time approx. 1930-1970
Achievements
Unless otherwise stated,
the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
Best GD: 1.153
(1948 pentathlon DM, Düsseldorf)
Maximum series (HS): 15
(1960 German Cup, Remscheid)
World Championships:
2 × (1936, 1937)
Continental Championships:
1 × (1955 EM)
Other tournaments:
20 × German champion (three cushion)
12 × in other disciplines
Societies)

• Arnhem (until 1935) • Düsseldorfer BSV (from 1936) • Saar 05 Saarbrücken (from 1955)NetherlandsNetherlands
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August Tiedtke (born March 3, 1913 in Duisburg , † July 11, 1972 in Saarbrücken ) was a German collision player and multiple world and European champion.

Life

August Tiedtke is the son of a German and a Dutch woman. His father was a building materials dealer. In 1928 the family moved from Duisburg to Arnhem . There August learned to play billiards from world champion Jan Dommering in a pub . He was actually left-handed, but initially played with his right hand. His younger brother Gert , with whom he trained together, is also a successful carom player. Because of his Dutch origins, he initially played for the Arnhem billiards club. He learned the trade of a businessman, but soon noticed that he was addicted to the game, and so he ran a billiards school in Düsseldorf, where he played for the local billiards club. He was small, delicate in stature and always neatly dressed. As a recreational sport, Tiedtke went swimming and played tennis. Crossword puzzles helped him switch off from the mentally exhausting game of pool.

17-year-old Tiedtke at the Amateur World Cup in 1930

In 1936 he achieved his first successes, but as a German he found it difficult to gain a foothold abroad because he was often associated with the political system. When he was in the USA for the 1939 World Cup, he received several offers to stay, on the one hand because the players liked his way of playing, and on the other hand with the prospect of making more money than in Germany. He did not do this and returned to Germany, where he reported on his experiences. One of the listeners denounced Tiedtke to the Reich Sports Leader Hans von Tschammer und Osten , whereupon he was banned from billiards for two years on February 8, 1939. However, due to its popularity and popularity, the lock could not last long. After a letter of apology from him, the ban was lifted on June 16, 1939. There were further difficulties due to his origins at the pentathlon world championship in Algiers in 1936 when a referee set the balls incorrectly for him. If Tiedtke had played the balls as they were, he would have been dropped. It is believed that the referee did this on purpose due to the existing hostility towards Germany.

During the Second World War, he had to interrupt his career and exchange the cue for a rifle. After the end of the war, not only the destroyed billiard halls were a problem for him, he also had to reconnect with the international elite of players and be accepted not only as an opponent, but also as a partner. In 1949, he did pioneering work in Switzerland. In an interview he says:

“It was very nice, they were very courteous, friendly and they really tried hard to make my days there in Switzerland as pleasant as possible, and I also have the feeling that everything was meant warmly, including my victories from Opponents were duly respected. (...) "

In the further course of the interview, however, he also said that his aim was to counteract the exclusion of Germans from international competitions.

Obituary from August 1972 in the Deutsche Billard Zeitung
In memoriam from August 1972 in the Deutsche Billard Zeitung

The problems were not over at the European Championships in Groningen in 1953 either, when it looked like two Germans, Walter Lütgehetmann and he, would probably carry it out before the final game . Since many of the players were of Jewish origin and did not speak well about Germany, the chairman came to the German players and asked if they would forego their national anthem, which the government had recently chosen. The answer was a resounding “no”. If so, then the German anthem has to be played too. When the two Germans actually won and the audience was amazed and applauded during the game, it was quiet in the hall when the anthem was played. The next day a Dutch newspaper wrote: "The German billiards are good ambassadors for their country."

In the 1950s he moved to Saarbrücken with his wife and ran a restaurant and a billiard room there. In 1957 Tiedtke received the Silver Laurel Leaf , the highest German sports award.

Later he played for a Saarland billiards club and won many German championship titles before he retired from professional billiards in 1970, two years before his death.

Robert Court , President of the German Billiard Association (DBB), once said about him:

"Tiedtke can also play with appropriately peeled potatoes and a broomstick."

August Tiedtke entered the Guinness Book of Records as the “most spectacular player of all time” .

In 1953, Karlheinz Krienen , then President of the German Billiards Association, described Tiedtke's demeanor and personality with the words:

“And then he appeared. He usually came without a queue, completely unprepared and with the smile of a boy who feels guilty but asks for indulgence. And then August Tiedtke reconciled all spectators with his game and his artistry, in this game, he reconciled all critics who wanted to reproach him a few minutes before for his lack of punctuality and nonchalance. In the opinion of the public, Tiedtke always stood between hate and love, between the greatest affection and the sharpest rejection, and his game always created the balancing effect, yes, the popularity that made him the 'most interesting and amusing player' after Charles Faroux .
He enchanted with his charm and his cue, which mostly belonged to others and therefore occasionally crashed out of gratitude! About two dozen cues from my personal inventory fell victim to the billiard genius Tiedtke over the years. I knew about their fate, and yet I could not even manage to deny him. "

- Karheinz Krienen, DBB President : Encyclopedia of Billiards

In July 1972 Tiedtke died after suffering from severe cancer at the age of only 59 in Saarbrücken.

Career

Tiedtke at an art push demonstration (with autograph)
... at the Massé shock

August Tiedtke was one of the most colorful German billiards players.

In 1935 Tiedtke became German three-cushion champion for the first time . He was able to achieve this title a total of 20 times by 1970.

Tiedtke achieved his first major international success at the pentathlon World Cup in 1936 in Algiers , when he secured the title against Jacques Davin . In the following year Tiedtke won another world title, this time in the art push , with 208 points and stood in front of Richard Kron , who reached 187 points, on the podium. In the same season, he almost managed the feat of winning a third world title. At the three-cushion World Cup, however, he lost the final after a clear lead against the French Alfred Lagache with 47:50. Also in 1937 he was runner-up at the three-cushion World Cup in Cologne, and also in 1952 in Buenos Aires , where, according to UIFAB protocol, 15,000 spectators were present at the Carrera final against Tiedtke (UIFAB was the predecessor of the UMB ). This is the highest number of spectators at a game of billiards so far. In 1958 he was third in Barcelona .

In 1958 Tiedtke was vice European champion behind the Austrian Johann Scherz and ahead of the Belgian René Vingerhoedt at the EM three-cushion in Cannes .

With his club, the "Düsseldorfer Billardfreunde", he and his teammates Siegfried Spielmann , Hans-Dietrich Runkehl and Kurt Hartkopf won the European three-cushion championship for clubs, the Coupe d'Europe .

During his long career he became German champion 32 times in various disciplines, which is still a German record today. But he has to share this record with Dieter Müller , who, albeit much later, also won so many titles. In addition to the European champion in the cover, he was eight times vice European champion in three cushion. Tiedtke won a total of 18 medals at international tournaments (four at world championships and 14 at European championships).

Others

On March 3, 1993, on the occasion of his birthday, the WDR radio broadcast a 15-minute radio program in the "Zeitzeichen" series, in which his brother Gert also had a say and told a few anecdotes.

successes

  • European pentathlon championships for national teams : bronze1967
  • Coupe d'Europe : Winner 1960
  • German champion in pentathlon: 1936, 1938, 1947, 1948, 1950.
  • German champion Cadre 45/2: 1947.
  • German champion Cadre 47/2: 1959.
  • German champion Cadre 47/1: 1962.
  • German champion Cadre 71/2: 1946, 1948.
  • German Champion Binding: 1952, 1966.
  • German master three-cushion: 1936, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1942, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1965, 1967, 1969.

Swell:

Awards

In 1957 Tiedtke received the highest award in German sport, the silver laurel leaf .

Web links

Commons : August Tiedtke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karlheinz Krienen: Deutsche Billard-Zeitung . Ed .: DBB. 36th year, no. 9 (March). Cologne 1959, p. 6-8 .
  2. a b c d e player statistics. On: Kozoom.com. Retrieved June 21, 2012.
  3. ^ German championships in three cushion (MB). (PDF; 45 kB) Archived from the original on June 21, 2012 ; Retrieved June 21, 2012 .
  4. a b Nonpolitical: The billiard player August Tiedtke. In: Sabine Gerasch: History from the tape. 1st edition. de Gruyter, 1997, ISBN 3-11-015274-6 , pp. 154-162.
  5. The laypeople couldn't smile. In: Spiegel . 12/1948.
  6. a b Gerd Tiedtke in the Munzinger archive , accessed on June 21, 2012 ( beginning of the article freely accessible)
  7. ^ Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 2 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 932 .
  8. ^ Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner: Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 2 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 936 .
  9. ^ List of winners at the three-cushion World Cup 1928–2011. ( Memento of July 4, 2005 in the Internet Archive ). On: HickokSports.com. Retrieved June 21, 2012.
  10. ^ EM 1958, Tiedtke finished second. On: worldcup3cushionvienna.com. Retrieved June 21, 2012 ( Memento October 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ^ Dieter Haase: 100 years of billiards in Germany, 1911–2011 . Ed .: German Billard Union. Cologne 2011, DNB  1014024773 , p. 35 .