Dieter Müller (carom player)

Dieter Müller
Personal details
birthday	February 2, 1943
place of birth	Berlin
nationality	Germany
Active time	approx. 1965–1990
Achievements Unless otherwise stated, the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
Best GD: 95.45 (Cadre 71/2)
1978 Strasbourg
Maximum series (HS): 1750 (free game)
1978 Moyeuvre-Grande
World Championships:
4 × (1977–1978)
Continental Championships:
8 × (1969–1984)
Other tournaments:
32 × German champion (1967–1985)
Societies)
BA Berlin, Berolina Berlin

Dieter Müller (born February 2, 1943 in Berlin ) is a German carom billiards player .

Life

Growing up in the Berlin of the postwar Müller had no simple youth. His father disappeared in the turmoil of the post-war period, and so his mother had to support her three children on her own. Dieter Müller did an apprenticeship as a lathe operator. In sport, he tried his hand at football and basketball. He came to billiards as a newspaper carrier in Berlin's pubs. It was problematic to reconcile his job and his hobby of billiards. In order to be able to concentrate on preparing for his tournaments, he resigned his position several times. At the age of 23 he borrowed 50,000 marks from friends  and opened a billiard room. Now he had ideal conditions for training.

Career

Dieter Müller played his first major tournament with the juniors. At the European Championships from December 13 to 16, 1962 in Berlin, he was third. It was won by the Belgian Ludo Dielis , with whom he often had to do in the next few years. In the senior category, he played his first major tournament at the German Championship in Cadre 47/2 from February 13 to 16, 1964 in Berlin. There he took third place. He won the first German championship title at the Cadre 71/2 championship from January 21 to 22, 1967 in Düsseldorf . This type of game should also become the parade discipline of his billiards career. In total, he brought it to 31 German championship titles.

Internationally his career began with the seniors in Heerlen in the Netherlands. At the Cadre 71/2 European Championship from March 16-19, 1967, however, he only finished eighth, and thus last place. The winner was the legendary Frenchman Jean Marty ahead of the Belgian Raymond Ceulemans . Two years later, again in the Netherlands , in Maassluis , he became European champion for the first time at the Cadre-47/1-EM from 8th to 11th May 1969. Another seven European titles followed. Müller achieved his greatest achievement at the Cadre 71/2 European Championship from March 16 to 19, 1978 in Strasbourg. With his world best of 95.45 on average, played better than Jean Marty at the Cadre 71/2 World Championships in Bruges . The world record set at that time of 92.30 was considered the record of the century.

Dieter Müller's successes were exceptional not only at European championships, but also at world championships. With four individual world championship titles, he is still the most successful German billiard athlete. His first participation in a World Cup took him to Düsseldorf . At the Cadre 71/2 World Championships from September 6 to 10, 1967, he came in very good fifth. The strong Argentine Osvaldo Berardi won ahead of Raymond Ceulemans and Jean Marty. However, Müller had to wait ten years for his first world title. But then it was done. At the pentathlon World Championships from May 14th to 21st in Deurne (Antwerp) , Ludo Dielis' hometown, he won ahead of the two outstanding Belgian all-rounders Raymond Ceulemans and Ludo Dielis. He was able to defend the title in Santiago de Chile the next season . At that time, Müller was almost unbeatable in Cadre 71/2. As a result, he won the world title in Berlin in 1977 and in Bochum in 1978 .

When the three-cushion world cup was founded by the BWA in 1986 , Müller was the only German to have been a professional from the start. As a seeded player, he was always qualified for the main draw. The successes as in the classic disciplines did not materialize. His best placing was a second place in 1988 at the World Cup tournament in Paris . In 1990 he retired from the World Cup and other billiards activities and ended his billiards career. He also gave up his billiard center in Berlin.

successes

• World champions in pentathlon: Pentathlon World Cup 1977, 1978
• World Champion Cadre 71/2: Cadre 71/2 World Cup 1977, 1978
• European pentathlon champion: 1980 European Pentathlon

• European pentathlon championships for national teams : 1985, 1971, 1975, 1979, 1981, 1990, 1992, 1967
• European Champion Cadre 47/1: Cadre-47/1-EM 1969, 1970, 1975
• European champion Cadre 47/2: Cadre-47/2-EM 1970
• European champion Cadre 71/2: Cadre-71/2-EM 1977, 1978
• European champion in team pentathlon: 1984
• German pentathlon champion: 1976, 1977, 1979
• German champion Cadre 47/1: 1970, 1974, 1975, 1977
• German champion Cadre 47/2: 1968, 1973
• German champion Cadre 71/2: 1967, 1968, 1971, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980
• German Champion Binding: 1972, 1976, 1977, 1980, 1981
• German three-cushion champion: 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1985

Swell:

Awards

As the fourth billiard player after Walter Lütgehetmann , August Tiedtke and Siegfried Spielmann , Müller received the highest award in German sport, the Silver Laurel Leaf, in 1974 and 1980 .

Web links

Commons : Dieter Müller (Karambola player)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Aloys Behler: When it comes to billiards, nothing is impossible . In: The time . May 9, 1980

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Player statistics on Kozoom.com. Retrieved July 12, 2012
2. ↑ Dieter Müller in the Munzinger archive , accessed on July 12, 2012 ( beginning of article freely accessible)