German three-cushion championships

German three-cushion championships
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	Ranking tournament
Tournament format:	Round robin / knockout system
Association / host:	DBU
Tournament details
Venue:	Kurhaus, Bad Wildungen, Hesse
Playing time:	since 1929
Current title holder:	Martin Horn
Records
Most wins: 20
August Tiedtke
Best GD: 1.942
Martin Horn 2009, Bad Wildungen
Best ED: 3,000
Martin Horn 2008, Bad Wildungen
Maximum series (HS): 17
Martin Horn November 4th, 2019 Bad Wildungen
Position map
Bad Wildungen

B. Kesting

Otto Unshelm

August Tiedtke

Ernst Rudolph

Siegfried Spielmann

Walter Lütgehetmann

Günter Siebert

Dieter Müller

Gert Tiedtke

Hans-Jürgen Kühl

Christian Rudolph

Martin Horn

Stefan Galla

Christos Christodoulidis

Ronny Lindemann

Çengiz Karaça

The German three- cushion championships (DDM) have been held since 1929. The tournament has been held annually in Bad Wildungen , Hesse , since 2005 .

history

At the beginning of the 20th century, the carom disciplines free game and cadre still dominated international tournaments . That changed in the late 1920s, when the three-cushion became increasingly popular. In 1929, the three cushion found its way into tournaments on a national level. Even until the first years of the war (1942) regular tournaments were held. Then, due to the war, there was a break in play until 1947. In 1935 the era of the Düsseldorf series winner August Tiedtke began , who had the most wins to date (20). From 1935 to 1937 Erich Stoewe was the "Eternal Second" behind Tiedtke, like Tiedtke himself at the world championships. Tiedtke himself was not spared from the ideas loyal to the state. At the 1938 World Cup, he answered yes to a journalist's question whether he could imagine living in the USA and was then banned from the Reichssportführer Hans von Tschammer und Osten for two years. Because of its popularity and popularity, this ban, which was issued by the then association DABV , could not be maintained for long. On June 16, 1939, his eligibility to play was renewed and Tiedtke secured 16 more titles, a winning streak that has not been beaten to this day.

Tiedtke was the leading carambola player at the time and everyone had to sort themselves behind him. Only when Tiedtke did not take part in the tournament could other players win the title, as happened in 1955 when he played for the then still independent Saarland and was therefore not allowed to take part in the DDM. This DDM was part of a multiple event of all disciplines and was also part of the pentathlon competition . Like Stoewe before, Georg Berrisch became his successor. From 1939 to 1942 he was runner-up behind Tiedtke, only in 1941 he was third; This year the old master Otto Unshelm managed to win the title again. In 1947 his brother Gert, who was eleven years his junior, played for the first time and immediately came third. But his discipline was the art push and so he had to be content with the lower ranks.

After the annexation of Austria by the Nazi regime, the Austrian Franz Engl was able to take part in the championship in 1939 and 1941.

The DDM has been held annually since 1947. The only exceptions are the gaming seasons 1957/58 and 1996/97. In 1964/65 the DDM took place as part of a qualifying tournament for the European Championship in Vienna .

The general average rose steadily, but it was not until 1980 that Berlin's Dieter Müller crossed the “magic mark” of 1,000 (1.005) as the winner for the first time. The runner-up Günter Siebert even made it to 1.027.

From 1990 to 2012, among other things, the German Grand Prix (GGP) was a qualification tournament for participation in the DDM.

mode

In the first year of the tournament, 20 points were still played, but in the second edition in 1930 the distance was raised to the international level of 50 points. This stayed that way until 1959, when the international game distances were again adjusted and played to 60 points. This stayed that way until 1981, the only exception being the year 1975, when one switched to the set system for the first time and played on two winning sets (best of 3) of 20 points each with a break . A second attempt to play in the sentence system took place from 1981 to 1983, but there the game distance was increased to 25 points. Then again, until 1986, individual games were played to 50 points. In 1987 the sentence system finally prevailed, initially "Best of 3" and then from 1994 to "Best of 5". Since 2004 there has not been a “small final” (game for third place), so there are two third-placed players. A shot clock with 40 seconds has been available since 2008 .

Tournament records

General average (GD) (from 0.500) GD Surname year 0.524 Otto Unshelm 1932 0.561 Otto Unshelm 1934 0.651 August Tiedtke 1935 0.776 August Tiedtke 1937 0.890 August Tiedtke 1949 0.933 Ernst Rudolph 1964 0.937 Ernst Rudolph 1965 0.949 August Tiedtke 1967 1.027 Günter Siebert 1980 1.041 Dieter Müller 1981 1.247 Dieter Müller 1983 1.251 Martin Horn 1995 1.318 Christian Rudolph 1997 1,342 Christian Rudolph Martin Horn 1998 2000 1.373 Johann umbrella fire 2001 1.491 Martin Horn 2002 1.613 Christian Rudolph 2004 1,789 Martin Horn 2008 1,942 Martin Horn 2009

Single Average (ED) (from 0.600) BED Surname year 0.606 ? Bechter 1929 0.625 Georg Berrisch 1931 0.980 Georg Berrisch 1932 1.111 Walter Feller 1940 1,315 August Tiedtke 1941 1.538 August Tiedtke 1970 1.764 Dieter Müller Christian Rudolph 1981 1991 1,800 Rainer Neff 1994 1,888 Ralf Köstner 1997 2.045 Martin Horn 2000 2,647 Martin Horn 2007 3,000 Martin Horn 2008

Maximum series (HS) (from 5) HS Surname year 5 Franz Müller Georg Drescher Alex Mertens 1929 8th Willy Willems Georg Berrisch 1930 1932 9 ? Bechter Otto Unshelm 1934 1935/1 11 August Tiedtke Georg Berrisch 1935/2 1938 15th Siegfried Spielmann 1954 16 Ronny Lindemann Martin Horn 2016 2018 17th Martin Horn 2019

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b} The record was set during the regional qualifying rounds, not the main tournament.

Tournament statistics

In the first few years, the championships, with some exceptions being 1932, 1935 and 1959, were mostly played at the beginning of the year or at the end of the season. Since 1967 the DDM have been played at the end of the year, again with exceptions from 1991 to 1996 and 2004.

Legend tournament modes

code	Explanation
	Two DDMs were held this year
	This year the DDM was held in spring
	pure round robin tournament mode without preliminary round.
¡¡	Preliminary round in two groups + final round
¡¡¡	Preliminary round in three groups + final round
¡¡¡¡	Preliminary round in four groups + final round
‡	Tournaments without a push
	Double KO system
	simple knockout system , semifinals, finals, kl. final
	Group stage round robin, final rounds knockout system
Pt.	Single games point distance, G = group stage, F = final
S / P	Winning sets (winning sets in the final round from HF = semi-finals, F = final, kF = small final (game for 3rd place) / point distance)

No.	season	place							Game mode
			Surname	GD	Surname	GD	Surname	GD	Pt.	S / P
01	1928/29	Mainz	B. Kesting	0.343	Adolf Andriessen	0.364	Franz Muller	0.362	20 ‡	-
02	1929/30	Remscheid	Otto Unshelm	0.454	? Croneye	0.411	Franz Muller	0.347	50 ‡	-
03	1930/31	Cologne	Georg Berrisch	0.493	Otto Unshelm	0.497	Georg Drescher	0.357	50 ‡	-
04th	1931/32	Solingen	Otto Unshelm	0.524	Georg Berrisch	0.494	Willy Wilhelms	0.409	50 ‡	-
05	1932/33	Berlin	Otto Unshelm	0.482	Georg Berrisch	0.545	B. Kesting	0.536	50 ‡	-
06th	1933/34	Cologne	Otto Unshelm	0.561	Georg Berrisch	0.520	Willy Pesch	0.494	50 ‡	-
07th	1934/35	Bremen	Otto Unshelm	0.554	Erich Stoewe	0.494	Willy Pesch	0.592	50 ‡	-
08th	1935/36	Berlin	August Tiedtke	0.651	Erich Stoewe	0.638	Otto Unshelm	0.578	50 ‡	-
09	1936/37	eat	August Tiedtke	0.776	Erich Stoewe	0.553	Willy Pesch	0.540	50	-
10	1937/38	Magdeburg	August Tiedtke	0.686	Georg Berrisch	0.580	Otto Unshelm	0.587	50	-
11	1938/39	Berlin	Ernst Rudolph	0.558	Willy Pesch	0.682	Georg Berrisch	0.594	50	-
12	1939/40	Remscheid	August Tiedtke	0.649	Georg Berrisch	0.605	Walter Feller	0.572	50	-
13	1940/41	Berlin	Otto Unshelm	0.628	August Tiedtke	0.721	Georg Berrisch	0.670	50	-
14th	1941/42	Munich	August Tiedtke	0.739	Georg Berrisch	0.670	Fritz Hahn	0.516	50	-
There were no events from 1942/43 to 1945/46
15th	1946/47	Solingen	August Tiedtke	0.693	Ernst Halbach	0.570	Gert Tiedtke	0.491	50	-
16	1947/48	Solingen	August Tiedtke	0.721	Kurt Hartkopf	0.498	Willy Willems	0.427	50	-
17th	1948/49	Dusseldorf	August Tiedtke	0.890	Siegfried Spielmann	0.564	Kurt Hartkopf	0.532	50	-
18th	1949/50	Duisburg	August Tiedtke	0.835	Siegfried Spielmann	0.580	Kurt Hartkopf	0.527	50	-
19th	1950/51	Aachen	August Tiedtke	0.814	Walter Lütgehetmann	0.582	Ernst Rudolph	0.579	50	-
20th	1951/52	Cologne	August Tiedtke	0.827	Ernst Rudolph	0.783	Otto Boeven	0.500	50	-
21st	1952/53	Mönchengladbach	August Tiedtke	0.860	Ernst Rudolph	0.627	Siegfried Spielmann	0.559	50	-
22nd	1953/54	Nuremberg	August Tiedtke	0.857	Siegfried Spielmann	0.595	Walter Lütgehetmann	0.610	50	-
23	1954/55	Cologne	Ernst Rudolph	0.714	Walter Lütgehetmann	0.712	Siegfried Spielmann	0.614	50	-
24	1955/56	Aachen	Ernst Rudolph	0.708	August Tiedtke	0.793	Walter Lütgehetmann	0.801	50	-
25th	1956/57	Berlin	August Tiedtke	0.815	Walter Lütgehetmann	0.753	Siegfried Spielmann	0.676	50	-
There were no competitions in 1957/58
26th	1958/59	Mitterteich	August Tiedtke	0.798	Rudolf Apelt	0.622	Norbert Witte	0.614	60	-
27	1959/60	Cologne	August Tiedtke	0.798	Ernst Rudolph	0.849	Rudolf Apelt	0.597	60	-
28	1960/61	Wanne-Eickel	Ernst Rudolph	0.719	Siegfried Spielmann	0.728	Norbert Witte	0.658	60	-
29	1961/62	Oberhausen	August Tiedtke	0.860	Norbert Witte	0.689	Ernst Rudolph	0.674	60	-
30th	1962/63	Saarbrücken	Ernst Rudolph	0.689	Walter Lütgehetmann	0.802	Hans Ritschel	0.741	60	-
31	1963/64	Muenster	Ernst Rudolph	0.933	Hans Ritschel	0.774	Rudolf Apelt	0.662	60	-
In 1964/65 there was no official DDM. It took place as a qualification for the European Championship in Vienna.
32	1965/66 ¡¡	Sulzbach / Saar	August Tiedtke	0.822	Walter Lütgehetmann	0.728	Siegfried Spielmann	0.678	60	-
33	1966/67	Gelsenkirchen	August Tiedtke	0.949	Joseph stooping	0.742	Rudolf Apelt	0.715	60	-
34	1967/68	Duisburg-Rheinhausen	Siegfried Spielmann	0.730	Ernst Rudolph	0.789	Gert Tiedtke	0.712	60	-
35	1968/69	Cologne	Dieter Haring	0.705	Siegfried Spielmann	0.728	Ernst Rudolph	0.812	60	-
36	1969/70 ¡¡	Dusseldorf	August Tiedtke	0.903	Dieter Haring	0.669	Dieter Müller	0.689	60	-
37	1970/71 ¡¡¡	Gelsenkirchen	Hans-Dietrich Runkehl	0.697	August Tiedtke	0.937	Josef Bücken	0.703	60	-
38	1971/72	eat	Günter Siebert	0.823	Hans-Dietrich Runkehl	0.734	Rudolf Apelt	0.765	60	-
39	1972/73	Westerholt	Ernst Rudolph	0.831	Joseph stooping	0.747	Dieter Müller	0.763	60	-
40	1973/74 ¡¡¡	eat	Dieter Müller	0.771	Günter Siebert	0.755	Siegfried Spielmann	0.819	60	-
41	1974/75 ¡¡¡	Solingen	Dieter Müller	0.853	Gert Tiedtke	0.672	Günter Siebert	0.718	60	-
42	1975/76	Berlin	Dieter Müller	0.902	Günter Siebert	0.668	Joseph stooping	0.674	-	2/20
43	1976/77 ¡¡¡¡	Hamburg	Günter Siebert	0.814	Jürgen Sedello	0.786	Dieter Haring	0.694	60	-
44	1977/78 ¡¡¡	Gladbeck	Dieter Müller	0.948	Günter Siebert	0.856	Gert Tiedtke	0.722	60	-
45	1978/79 ¡¡¡	Gelsenkirchen	Gert Tiedtke	0.770	Dieter Müller	0.924	Hans Ehl	0.758	60	-
46	1979/80	Gelsenkirchen	Dieter Müller	1.005	Günter Siebert	1.027	Falko Willenberger	0.643	60	-
47	1980/81	Velbert	Günter Siebert	1.003	Dieter Müller	1.021	Hans-Jürgen Kühl	0.903	60	-
48	1981/82	Elversberg	Dieter Müller	0.968	Günter Siebert	0.871	Franz Wolf	0.503	-	2/25
49	1982/83	Gladbeck	Günter Siebert	0.845	Dieter Müller	0.927	Johann Waiz	0.679	-	2/25
50	1983/84	Gutersloh	Dieter Müller	0.884	Hans-Jürgen Kühl	0.721	Günter Siebert	0.767	-	2/25
51	1984/85	Gelsenkirchen	Dieter Müller	0.943	Günter Schüssler	0.615	Johann Waiz	0.622	50	-
52	1985/86	Duisburg	Hans-Jürgen Kühl	0.898	Dieter Müller	0.961	Peter Bauer	0.711	50	-
53	1986/87	Landau in the Palatinate	Edgar Bettzieche	0.828	Hans-Jürgen Kühl	0.888	Christian Zöllner	1.030	50	-
54	1987/88	Berlin	Günter Siebert	0.983	Christian Zöllner	0.851	Norbert Ohagen	0.785	-	2/15
55	1988/89	Ravensburg	Günter Siebert	1.143	Norbert Weingärtner	0.994	Thomas Wildforster	0.914	-	2 (HF 3) / 15
56	1989/90	Wuppertal	Hans-Jürgen Kühl	0.857	Wolfgang Zenkner	0.764	Christian Rudolph	1.062	-	2 (HF 3) / 15
57	1990/91	St. Wendel	Hans-Jürgen Kühl	1.041	Maximo Aguirre	0.863	Christian Rudolph	1.083	-	2 (F 3) / 15
58	1991/92	Erfurt	Edgar Bettzieche	0.984	Arno Figge	0.963	Christian Zöllner	1.103	-	2 (F 3) / 15
59	1992/93	Berlin	Edgar Bettzieche	0.875	Christian Rudolph	1.142	Martin Horn	0.984	-	2 (F 3) / 15
60	1993/94	Backnang	Christian Rudolph	1.024	Rainer Schiwek	0.920	Ralf Köstner	1.074	-	3/15
61	1994/95	Velbert	Martin Horn	1.251	Johann umbrella fire	1.097	Edgar Bettzieche	0.984	-	3/15
62	1995/96	Gelsenkirchen	Christian Rudolph	1.042	Martin Horn	0.989	Stefan Galla	1.004	-	3/15
In 1996/97 there was no DDM
63	1997/98	Velbert	Christian Rudolph	1.318	Martin Horn	1.264	Ralf Köstner	1,234	-	3/15
64	1998/99	Chemnitz	Christian Rudolph	1,342	Martin Horn	1,196	Jens Eggers	1.147	-	3/15
65	1999/2000	Halle (Saale)	Christian Rudolph	1.288	Martin Horn	1,342	Johann umbrella fire	1.038	-	3/15
66	2000/01	Wuppertal	Christian Rudolph	1.269	Johann umbrella fire	1.373	Falko Willenberger	1.104	-	3/15
67	2001/02	gain	Martin Horn	1.491	Stefan Galla	1,236	Markus Schönhoff	0.930	-	3/15
68	2002/03	Herten	Stefan Galla	1.108	Martin Horn	1.301	Edgar Bettzieche	0.876	-	3/15
No.	season	place							Game mode
			Surname	GD	Surname	GD	Surname	GD	Pt.	S / P
69	2003/04	Herne	Martin Horn	1.413	Lutz Schwab	0.900	Edgar Bettzieche	0.952	-	3/15
							Jens Eggers	1.160
70	2004/05	Bergisch Gladbach	Christian Rudolph	1.613	Thorsten Frings	0.933	Edgar Bettzieche	0.833	-	3/15
							Frank Eversmann	0.807
71	2005/06	Bad Wildungen	Jens Eggers	1.029	Murat Gokmen	1.050	Thorsten Frings	1.023	-	3/15
							Thomas Neumann	0.863
72	2006/07		Martin Horn	1.388	Murat Gokmen	1.079	Karl-Heinz Gertzen	0.769	-	3/15
							Martin Witt	0.813
73	2007/08		Martin Horn	1.465	Markus Dömer	0.936	Andreas Niehaus	1.085	-	3/15
							Lutz Schwab	0.940
74	2008/09		Martin Horn	1,789	Christian Rudolph	1,348	Thorsten Frings	1.198	-	3/15
							Çengiz Karaça	0.902
75	2009/10		Martin Horn	1,942	Thorsten Frings	1.068	Jens Eggers	1.266	-	3/15
							Uwe Kerls	0.874
76	2010/11		Christian Rudolph	1.563	Martin Horn	1.585	Markus Dömer	1.065	-	3/15
							Ramazan Durdu	1.012
77	2011/12		Martin Horn	1,843	Andreas Niehaus	1.205	Christos Christodoulidis	1.147	-	3/15
							Johann umbrella fire	1.079
78	2012/13		Christian Rudolph	1,682	Martin Horn	1,873	Ronny Lindemann	1.362	G30 / F40	-
							Rainer Neff	1.018
79	2013/14		Christos Christodoulidis	1.111	Johann umbrella fire	1.055	Martin Horn	1.569	G30 / F40	-
							Markus Schönhoff	0.955
80	2014/15		Christian Rudolph	1,200	Andreas Niehaus	1.333	Dustin Jaeschke	1.067	G30 / F40	-
							Volker Marx	0.858
81	2015/16		Christian Rudolph	1.409	Stefan Dirks	1.024	Andreas Niehaus	1.209	G30 / F40	-
							Markus Schönhoff	1.068
82	2016/17		Ronny Lindemann	1,390	Christian Rudolph	1.244	Thomas Ahrens	0.916	G30 / F40	-
							Dustin Jaeschke	1.101
83	2017/18		Martin Horn	1.666	Dustin Jaeschke	1.111	Andreas Niehaus	1.347	G30 / F40	-
							Uwe Kerls	1.007
84	2018/19		Çengiz Karaça	1.176	Hakan Celik	1.087	Martin Horn	1.666	G30 / F40	-
							Luke tribe	0.864
85	2019/20		Martin Horn	1,587	Ronny Lindemann	1.462	Çengiz Karaça	1,250	G30 / F40	-
							Luke tribe	1.178

Swell:

Eternal list

rank	Surname				∑
01	August Tiedtke	20th	03	00	23
02	Christian Rudolph	11	03	02	15th
03	Martin Horn	10	07th	03	20th
04th	Dieter Müller	08th	04th	02	14th
05	Ernst Rudolph	07th	04th	03	14th
06th	Günter Siebert	06th	05	02	13
07th	Otto Unshelm	06th	01	02	09
08th	Hans-Jürgen Kühl	03	02	01	06th
09	Edgar Bettzieche	03	00	04th	07th
10	Georg Berrisch	01	06th	02	09
11	Siegfried Spielmann	01	05	05	11
12	Gert Tiedtke	01	01	03	05
13	Dieter Haring	01	01	01	03
13	Stefan Galla	01	01	01	03
13	Ronny Lindemann	01	01	01	03
16	Hans-Dietrich Runkehl	01	01	00	02
17th	Jens Eggers	01	00	03	04th
18th	Çengiz Karaça	01	00	02	03
19th	B. Kesting	01	00	01	02
19th	Christos Christodoulidis	01	00	01	02

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of billiards . 1st edition. tape 2 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 917 .
2. ^ ^{A b} Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 2 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 932 .
3. ^ Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 2 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 936 .
4. ↑ Overview of the German three-cushion championships. P. 1 , archived from the original on August 2, 2013 ; Retrieved August 2, 2013 .  
5. ^ Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 2 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 927-979 .
6. ↑ Results 2011. DBU , accessed on August 4, 2013 .  
7. ↑ Results 2012. DBU, accessed on August 4, 2013 .