German Table Tennis Association of the GDR
The German Table Tennis Association of the GDR ( DTTV ) was the table tennis association of the GDR . It was founded in 1948 and existed until December 2, 1990, when the DTTV then merged with the German Table Tennis Association DTTB .
Central issues and problems were always the position of table tennis in the GDR, participation in international events and the shortage of game material. From 1952 the DTTV table tennis newsletter was published monthly ( ISSN 0138-1547 ).
history
- July 5, 1948 - Founding of the German Sports Committee with a "table tennis" division. Oskar Steinhaus (* 1899) becomes the first chairman.
- 1948/49 - First team championship.
- 1949 - The table tennis section becomes the table tennis section of the GDR. The union official Anni Strauss became president. After a short time, Horst Benno Scheel took over this position.
- October 1949 - First GDR championship in Dresden
- August 1953 - First edition of the magazine "Tischtennis", the organ of the DTTV. The editor was Egon Lemke.
- 1954 - Last all-German championship
- July 1954 - Günter Görlitz (* 1926, † 1975) becomes President of the East German Table Tennis Association.
- 1958 - The German Table Tennis Association of the GDR (DTTV) is accepted as an independent member of the ITTF.
- 1961 - All of Germany's sports traffic is frozen.
- 1961 - Organization of the European Youth Championship in Bad Blankenburg.
- 1969 - The men's team is prohibited from participating in the World Cup in Munich for political reasons. The cause was the competitive sports decision in April 1969, according to which table tennis was no longer one of the sports worth promoting. One consequence of this was that hardly any material (balls, tables, clubs) could be procured in the years that followed.
- 1969 - Edgar Azig (political scientist and lottery director) becomes president.
- 1972 - Participation in the European Championship in Rotterdam. After that, the GDR never took part in European or world championships. Participation in competitions where non-socialist countries were represented was prohibited.
- 1974 - Werner Lüderitz (Halle) becomes president.
- September 1st, 1975: Bernd Raue replaces Günter Oelschlägel as DTTV trainer.
- December 2, 1990: In Berlin, DTTV resolves to dissolve it, which will take effect on December 31. Then merge with the DTTB.
- In the team championships, the 1990/91 season is still being played. The top two in the table move up to the 2nd Bundesliga. These are for the gentlemen BSG Elektronik Gornsdorf and St. Bad Salzungen, for the ladies BSG Lokomotive Leipzig-Mitte and KSV Erdgas Berlin.
Further information on the history of DTTV can be found in the Table Tennis Association of Saxony-Anhalt
Awards
At the Federal General Assembly of the DTTB in 1991 in Titisee-Neustadt, several DTTV officials were subsequently honored for their services:
- DTTB badge of honor in gold
- Burgundy Reinicke (Berlin), finance commission and treasurer
- Eberhard Hellmich (Berlin), apprentice, vice-president, press officer
- Herbert Lüdecke (Beeskow), Legal Commission
- Werner Lüderitz (Halle), President
- DTTB badge of honor in silver
- Heinz Haupt (Berlin), presidium, association trainer
Divisions
In the 1970s, there were three so-called league seasons for women and men below a single-track major league, namely the Northern League, the Central League and the Southern League with usually eight teams. These included the district leagues Schwerin, Neubrandenburg, Frankfurt (Oder), Berlin, Potsdam, Magdeburg, Halle, Leipzig, Cottbus, Dresden, Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz) and Erfurt.
Team champions of the GDR
In the 1970s, the top division was the single-track league for women with eight teams and men with ten teams. First of all, the final table was determined in an overall round in the mode everyone against everyone with a return leg. Since the 1975/76 season, the teams from the first half - the first four women's teams and the first five men's teams - have been playing for the title in a championship round. The remaining teams from the lower half of the table fought in a relegation round for relegation.
Source:
Individual championships in the GDR
see individual championships of the GDR
literature
- Friedrich-Karl Brauns: Table tennis players and their sport in the GDR: Despite the Olympics, they remain the pariah . DTS magazine , 1984/2 inner section, pp. 42-44
- Friedrich-Karl Brauns: 40 years of table tennis between Pankow and Köpenick , 75 years of the Berliner Tischtennisverband e. V. - Chronicle 1927–2002, 2002, publisher: Berliner Tischtennisverband e. V., Berlin, pages 50-64
- Friedrich-Karl Brauns: Pariahs in great sports power , in: 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 , pp. 103-113
- Manfred Schillings: Hardly anything new in the East . Journal DTS , 1993/1 pp. 18-21
- No blooming landscapes , DTS magazine , 2003/2 pp. 14–21
Individual evidence
- ^ "Tischtennis" magazine - bulletin of the German Table Tennis Association of the GDR, ISSN 0138-1547 , 1989/6 p. 5
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1973/21 p. 25
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1975/19 p. 17
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1991/1 p. 29
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1991/8 p. 40
- ↑ a b “Tischtennis” magazine - bulletin of the German Table Tennis Association of the GDR, ISSN 0138-1547 , 1976/2 pp. 6–12 + 1977/5 pp. 7–9 + 1977/6 pp. 10–11
- ↑ Journal DTS , 1991/5 pp. 26-27
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1990/9 p. 23