Doris Hovestädt

National team of the GDR
men from right to left: Günter Matthias , Heinz Schneider (hidden), Helmut Hanschmann , Hans Täger and possibly the coach.
Ladies from left to right: Christa Bannach , Doris Kalweit , Ute Mittelstädt , Sigrun Kunz , Isolde Woschee .

Doris Hovestädt (née Kalweit) (born August 22, 1943 in Berlin ) is a former table tennis player from the GDR . Together with Gabriele Geißler , she was one of the leading GDR players in the 1960s. She is 15 times GDR champion and completed around 80 international matches.

In the mid-1960s, Doris married Kalweit and then appeared under the name Doris Hovestädt.

National career

Hovestädt began table tennis at Motor Wilhelmsruh Einheit Pankow (from 1954). From 1957 to 1963 she played for SC Einheit Berlin . During this time, she won her first international success, second place in mixed with Jürgen Schlopies at the European youth championship in 1961. She also won the GDR youth championship in 1958 (with Schmidt) and 1959 (with judge). In 1959 she started in the individual competitions at the World Cup in Dortmund. In 1963, SC Einheit Berlin was integrated into the new Berlin TSC association . With this club, Hovestädt won the GDR team championship four times in a row from 1964 to 1967. When in 1968 the Berlin TSC was spun off into the association BSG Außenhandel Berlin , Hovestädt went with it. With BSG she was GDR champion eleven times, namely 1968 to 1973, 1975 and 1978 to 1981. The BSG also won the European Cup in 1968 and 1969 . In the 1975/76 season, Hovestädt, playing for the Post Berlin club, was unbeaten 26-0 in the championship games. When the club disbanded after reunification , the players and Hovestädt rejoined the Berlin TSC .

At the GDR individual championships, Hovestädt won 15 titles, four times in singles (1963, 1966, 1968, 1972), eight times in doubles (1962 with Sigrun Kunz , 1966 to 1972 with Gabriele Geißler ) and three times in mixed (1969 with Wolfgang Stein , 1970 and 1972 with Peter Fähnrich ).

In 1965 she led the GDR rankings.

International activities

From 1959 to 1969 Hovestädt was nominated for six world championships. The best result was 5th place with the GDR team in 1963 . She was represented at five European championships . Here she reached the semi-finals in mixed with Lothar Pleuse in 1964 . She reached the quarter-finals in singles in 1970 and doubles in 1968, 1970 and 1972. In the European ranking tournament Europe TOP-12 she came in sixth place in 1971 and seventh place a year later. In 1972 her international career ended "not entirely voluntarily".

In 1969 she was in the ITTF world rankings in 15th place, in the European rankings in 1970 she was eighth.

Private

Doris Hovestädt was employed in the Ministry of Foreign Trade of the GDR until the fall of the Berlin Wall , after which she worked in the Federal Ministry of Economics until retirement .

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
GDR	European Championship	1972	Rotterdam	NED	last 16	Quarter finals
GDR	European Championship	1970	Moscow	URS	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
GDR	European Championship	1968	Lyon	FRA	last 16	Quarter finals
GDR	European Championship	1966	London	CLOSELY	last 16
GDR	European Championship	1964	Malmo	SWE	last 16		Semifinals
GDR	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1961	Bad Blaukenburg	FRG			silver
GDR	EURO TOP12	1972	Zagreb	YUG	7th
GDR	EURO TOP12	1971	Zadar	YUG	6th
GDR	World Championship	1969	Munich	FRG	last 16	last 16	last 16	7th
GDR	World Championship	1967	Stockholm	SWE	last 32	last 16	last 32	8th
GDR	World Championship	1965	Ljubljana	YUG	last 64	last 16	last 64	10
GDR	World Championship	1963	Prague	TCH	last 128	last 32	last 32	5
GDR	World Championship	1961	Beijing	CHN	last 64	last 32	last 32	7th
GDR	World Championship	1959	Dortmund	FRG	last 64	last 32	last 64

literature

• 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. 212.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ (unknown) GDR newspaper from March 1959 (published before March 27) Ticket: 2011040510006001
2. ↑ table tennis - bulletin of the German Table Tennis Association of the GDR, 1976/2 p. 7
3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1965/15 West issue, p. 16.
4. ↑ tischtennis magazine 2010/4 regional north p. 2
5. ↑ tischtennis magazine 2012/6 p. 23
6. ↑ ITTF statistics ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 8, 2011)