Erika Richter (table tennis player)

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Erika Richter (right) playing tennis

Erika Richter born Schirok (born May 14, 1913 in Berlin ; † November 30, 2000 there ) was a German table tennis player in the 1930s and 1940s . She won the German championship in doubles several times.

Erika Richter is not related to the Hamburg table tennis player Richter-Schwerdfeger, who won the International German Championships in 1925 .

National career

First Erika Richter played tennis in the workers' sports club . In 1931 she won the championship in Leipzig. In the early 1940s she was one of the 10 best tennis players in Berlin. In 1984 she quit tennis for health reasons.

In 1930 she started playing table tennis in Berlin-Treptow at the Tischtennis-Union. As a result, she drew attention to herself through local successes. She was Berlin champion three times in singles (1943, 1946, 1948), seven times in doubles and four times in mixed. At the German Championships she won four times in doubles, twice she was runner-up in singles.

When the Osram company promised her husband a job if she played for the BSG Osram Berlin club , she switched to this company club. With Osram she was three times German team champion from 1936 to 1938.

After the Second World War , Erika Richter first moved to the community group Schöneberg, later to BTTC Grün-Weiß Berlin and in 1949 to TTC Blau-Gold Berlin . With blue gold she reached three times second place and three times third place at the German team championships.

From 1948 to 1950 she took third place in the German rankings.

Private

In 1932 Erika Schirok married the tennis player Willi Richter. After the Second World War, she took her deceased sister's two sons to live with her.

successes

Erika Richter (left) with Uschi Janke- von Puttkamer
  • German team championships with BSG Osram Berlin
    • 1936 in Erfurt: 1st place
    • 1937 in Frankfurt am Main: 1st place
    • 1938 in Berlin: 1st place
  • Gaume championships with Brandenburg
    • 1935 in Stettin: 1st place
    • 1936 in Gelsenkirchen: 1st place
  • Senior tournaments
    • 1984 Bad Schwartau: German Championship 60+: 2nd place doubles (with Anne Butzke)
  • As a member of the Police SV Berlin, she is a multiple senior citizen in Berlin.

swell

  • Manfred Schäfer, German Table Tennis Association (Hrsg.): A game for life. 75 years of the DTTB [1925–2000]. DTTB, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-00-005890-7
  • Anita Brauns : Born 1913 , DTS magazine , 1995/1 page 21

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Report on tischtennis.de from November 14, 2008 ( Memento of the original from July 24, 2014 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 July 17, 2014)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tischtennis.de
  2. ↑ 75 years of the Berliner Tischtennisverband eV - Chronicle 1927 - 2002, 2002, publisher: Berliner Tischtennisverband eV, Berlin, page 67
personal data
SURNAME Judge, Erika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sirok, Erika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 2000
Place of death Berlin