ESV Blau-Rot Bonn

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The ESV Blau-Rot Bonn eV is a sports club from Bonn . ESV stands for Railway Sports Club . In this club there are table tennis , swimming , tennis and women's gymnastics . The men's table tennis team was one of the strongest German teams in the 1940s.

Table tennis

Current

Currently (2019) there are six men's and one women's teams as well as one senior and one senior women's team. The men and women play with the first team in the association league.

history

It was founded on September 14, 1929 under the name Ping-Pong Club Bonn , co-founder was Karlheinz Simon . Thus, the club is one of the oldest in the area of ​​the West German table tennis association WTTV . In 1933 the club first changed its name to the Blau-Rot Bonn table tennis club . In the same year he gave up his independence and joined the ESV Blau-Rot Bonn.

The men's team won the West German team championship in 1948, 1949 and 1950. She was three times German runner-up. In 1947, 1948 and 1949 Karlheinz Simon , Helmuth Hoffmann , Albrecht Nicolai, Bernhard Vossebein , Hans Koehler, Bert Huthmacher, "Büb" Drove and Max Höper were all defeated by MTV Munich 1879 in the final . In 1950 she finished third, a placement she had already achieved in 1934. Until 1952 she stayed in the Oberliga, the then highest German league. After that, she was relegated to the district class because of repeated no-appearances. In 2001 and 2012 she reached the upper league again, now the fourth highest German division, and since then she has played in the association league.

The annals note as a curiosity: Jupp Schlaf , later president of the DTTB , and Dieter Mauritz , national player and later also DTTB president, were not accepted into the club because they did not meet the club's requirements.

Web links

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  • 75 years of WTTV pages 19–20
  • Joachim Schollmeyeer: The Ping-Pong-Club Bonn celebrates its 90th anniversary , tischtennis magazine , 2019/9 Region 3, pages 6–7

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Honor roll of the WTTV ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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 December 3, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / wttv.de
  2. ↑ Table tennis archive of Hans-Albert Meyer: German men's team championships (accessed on September 8, 2019)