Erich Arndt (table tennis player)

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Erich Arndt (born May 18, 1938 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a former German table tennis player .

Greatest successes

As early as April 1953, attention was drawn to Erich Arndt, when he reached the final while taking part in the international English junior championships in London and took second place. Before that he had eliminated the favorite Cliff Booth (England), the French Roß and the English Morley.

Arndt was appointed to the national team for the first time in 1956. In February he won all three singles against Switzerland in Zurich. Between 1956 and 1967 he played a total of 53 times for the national team. During this time he was one of the best players in Germany. However, he was overshadowed by Conny Freundorfer and Eberhard Schöler and therefore “only” took 2nd place in German championships three times. In 1962 he reached - as the first German - the final of the European Championship in Berlin, where he lost to Hans Alsér (Sweden). After this success he was ranked 3rd in the ETTU rankings, the best position that a German had ever achieved. He took part in 4 world championships. In 1963 he defeated the reigning world champion Zhuang Zedong in an international match against China .

properties

As a left-hander, Arndt was uncomfortable for any opponent. He was one of the players who introduced topspin in Germany.

Career

First Erich Arndt played soccer, in 1949 he switched to the table tennis department. From 1949 to 1952 he played for the club SKV Mörfelden, which then split off and founded the TTC Mörfelden . Arndt stayed here - except for a brief guest appearance in 1970 in Rödelheim. In 1967 he ended his career as an international competitive athlete, but played for a long time ( in the 1979/80 season ) with Mörfelden in the table tennis Bundesliga . In 1988 he finished second again at the Senior World Championship. In that year he published his book Erich Arndt - A table tennis life.

Arndt is the patron of the nationwide "Erich-Arndt-Tournament" for young players, which the TTC Mörfelden organizes every year.

Private

Arndt married Lieselotte Keim in 1959, a sister of the teammates from Mörfelden at the time, Hermann and Walter Keim. With her she has a daughter named Birgit, who also competed in the Hessian championships. He worked in a data center in Darmstadt. Today he lives in Mörfelden-Walldorf.

successes

  • youth
    • 1953 in Mörfelden - national German youth championships - 1st place mixed (with Ursula Hilbig)
    • 1953 London - International English Junior Championships - 2nd place (defeat in the final against Conny Freundorfer )
    • 1953 International Swiss Junior Championships - 1st place individual
    • 1955 in Kiel - national German youth championships - 1st place doubles (with Wolf Berger )
    • 1955 Kent (England) International Youth Championship - 1st place singles
  • National German championships
    • 1957 Berlin-West - 2nd place singles
    • 1958 Neumünster - individual 2nd place
    • 1962 Freiburg - single 3rd place, double 1st place (with Dieter Michalek ), mixed 3rd place (with Edit Buchholz )
    • 1963 Lübeck - single 2nd place, double 1st place (with Dieter Michalek ), mixed 3rd place (with Edit Buchholz )
    • 1964 Siegen - Mixed 3rd place (with Edit Buchholz )
    • 1965 Wiesloch - 3rd place singles
    • 1967 Berlin - single 3rd place, double 3rd place (with Dieter Michalek ), mixed 2nd place (with Agnes Simon )
    • 1980 Senior Championship Merzig - 1st place mixed with Irma Fischer
    • 1981 Senior Championship Schwalmstadt - 1st place mixed with Irma Fischer
    • 1985 Senior Championship 40+ Krefeld - individual 2nd place
    • 1986 Senior Championship 40+ Baunatal - 2nd place doubles (with Thaddäus Tedjasukmana)
    • 1989 Senior Championship 50+ Krefeld - 1st place singles, 1st place mixed with Walltraud Gelbhaar
    • 1990 Senior Championship 50+ Itzehoe - 2nd place doubles with Elmar Stegmann , 1st place mixed with Marianne Ernst
    • 1991 Senior Championship over 50 Hagen - 2nd place individual
  • World championships
    • 1959 in Dortmund: 9th place with men's team
    • 1963 in Prague: 3rd place with men's team
    • 1965 in Ljubljana: 10th place with men's team
    • 1967 in Stockholm: 4th place with men's team, last sixteen in mixed with Edit Buchholz
  • European championships
    • 1958 in Budapest: 5th place with men's team, round of 16 singles
    • 1962 in West Berlin: 3rd place with men's team, 2nd place singles, quarterfinals doubles, quarterfinals mixed
    • 1964 in Malmö: 6th place with men's team
  • International championships
  • National ranking tournaments
    • 1959 in Berlin: 1st place
    • 1960 in Munich: 3rd place
    • 1961 in Neumünster: 3rd place
    • 1963 in Mainz: 1st place
    • 1965 in Berlin: 2nd place
    • 1966 in Wiesloch: 3rd place
    • 1967 in Hagen: 2nd place
  • German team championships
    • 1955 in Hof: TTC Mörfelden
    • 1956 in Cologne: TTC Mörfelden
    • 1957 in Munich: TTC Mörfelden
    • 1960 in Salzgitter: TTC Mörfelden
    • 1961 in Neuwied: TTC Mörfelden 2nd place
    • 1985 Senior Championship in Becklingen: 1st place with Mörfelden
  • Leaderboards
    • 1957, 1958, 1962, 1963: 2nd place in the German ranking list
    • 1962: 3rd place European association ETTU
    • 1964: 18th place world association ITTF
  • Senior World Championship
    • 1988 in Zagreb: 2nd place individual (over 50)
    • 2010 in Hohhot: 3rd place doubles (70+) with Konrad Steinkämper

literature

  • Dietmar Kelkel: Eternal Second and Rebel , DTS magazine , 2004/7 p. 38

Results from the ITTF database

Association competition year place country singles Double Mixed team
FRG  European Championship  1962  Berlin  FRG   silver  Quarter finals  Quarter finals   
FRG  European Championship  1958  Budapest  HUN   last 16       
FRG  World Championship  1967  Stockholm  SWE   last 32  last 32  last 16  4th 
FRG  World Championship  1965  Ljubljana  YUG   last 128  last 32  Agony  10 
FRG  World Championship  1963  Prague  TCH   last 128  last 32  last 32  3
FRG  World Championship  1959  Dortmund  FRG   last 32  last 32  Scratched  9 

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1956/4 p. 4
  2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1992/6 p. 35
  3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1971/11 p. 3
  4. ↑ Magazine DTS , 1959/22 Edition West p.1
  5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1988/5 p. 21
  6. ↑ Erich Arndt (table tennis player) Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 3, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Arndt, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main