Ernst Reicher (carom player)

Ernst Reicher
Personal details
birthday	September 20, 1908
date of death	January 15, 1985
Achievements Unless otherwise stated, the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
World Championships:
1 ×
Continental Championships:
1 ×
Medal table
Binding World Championship 1 × 1 × 2 × European binding championship 1 × 0 × 1 ×

Ernst Reicher (born September 20, 1908 , † January 15, 1985 ) was an Austrian carom player and world and European champion.

Career

Reicher was born into the family of a cafe animal. They ran the Café Schottenring, the Café Gabriel, from 1932 to 1938 the Cafe Freyung and finally the Cafe Edison in Vienna. In typical coffee houses , billiard tables were often set up, so that he came into contact with the collision early on . When he was barely four, his father made him his first cue and while his peers played on the train, he kept himself busy with the three balls. After the collapse of the monarchy and the overcoming of the worst economic problems, billiards came back to mind in the mid-1920s. At the age of 18, he amazed the seasoned old players, took second place in a standard tournament and caught the attention of the billiards world of that time. Among them was Oskar Fraenkel, a well-known educator and billiard connoisseur. He accepted Reicher into his circle of students and taught him the techniques that would delight billiard fans for a long time. By 1929 his game had progressed so far that Fraenkel was preparing him for the first international tournaments. After the founding of the Austrian Billiards Association (then Austrian Amateur Billiards Association - ÖABV), in which he was significantly involved, and the associated accession to the world association, the Austrians were able to participate in international tournaments. Reicher made his debut in 1932 at the Free Game World Cup in Espinho , Portugal , where he finished sixth. Two years later, his father's Café Freyung hosted this World Cup . Something went unfortunate for him. If he had won all the games by then, equaled two world records and set all tournament records, he had, as was customary at the time, a tie with Jean Albert and only came second. Then in 1934 the great success in the cover with a gold medal at the first edition of the World Cup in Vichy, France . Silver and bronze medals followed until the outbreak of war. In 1937 Reicher was successful with a silver medal at the Cadre 71/2 World Championship . After Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany, he was allowed to play for Germany. In 1940 he moved to Leipzig and took part in several German championships. At the Pentathlon World Championships in the same year he was winner in all disciplines, except for three cushion (second), and won the gold medal, ahead of Otto Unshelm . In Cadre 45/2 he won gold in 1941 (ahead of Walter Joachim ) and 1942, silver in 1943, behind Walter Lütgehetmann . After the war, back in Vienna, he received the gold medal at the European binding championship in 1950 , and bronze a year later.

As with the initiation of the ÖABV, Reicher was not just a player, I was an official. For decades he was a member of the BSK Union Vienna , in 1961 the CEB relied on his experience and elected him as technical commissioner and from 1978 to 1978 he was sports director of UMB and subsequently honorary sports director . He was an honorary member of the ÖABV and for the last 25 years of his life a member of the Landstrasse Billiard Friends .

He had successfully studied and graduated with the title of graduate engineer.

Others

Reicher was committed to the equality of women in billiards as early as the mid-1930s. In 1934, he initiated the founding of the first Viennese women's billiards club in his parents' Café Freyung , 20 women who ventured into the male domain of the pool scene at the time.

successes

• Binding World Championship : 1934/1 1935 1934/2, 1937
• European Binding Championship : 1950 1951
• Austrian championships (various disciplines): 51 ×
• German champion: 1940 (Pentathlon), 1941, 1942 (Cadre 45/2) 1943 (Cadre 45/2)

Swell:

swell

Heinrich Weingartner : Dipl.-Ing. Ernst Reicher . Obituary. Ed .: billard Heinrich Weingartner . tape 2 , no. 204 . Self-published, 1985, ZDB -ID 1087098-2 , p. 8 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billardsport . 1st edition. tape 2 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 637 .
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Dipl. Ing. Ernst Reicher. 1968 for the 60th birthday in the carom. BSK Union Vienna, archived from the original on February 16, 2005 ; accessed on August 31, 2019 .  
3. ^ Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 3 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 1332-1333 .
4. ^ Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 1 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 287-288 .
5. ↑ Elizabeth Wurzenberger: The billiard in Vienna. (PDF) Exclusion or inclusion of women in billiards. University of Vienna / Elisabeth Wurzenberger (diploma thesis), June 12, 2015, archived from the original on September 1, 2019 ; accessed on August 31, 2019 .  
6. ^ Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 2 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 641-643 .
7. ↑ Achievements. Kozoom , accessed September 1, 2019 .