Ernst Rudolph

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Ernst Rudolph
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1964 World Three-cushion Championship, Ernst Rudolph (DEU), inventory number 916-7232.jpg
Personal details
birthday August 15, 1918
place of birth Gladbeck
date of death September 14, 1986
Place of death Cologne
nationality GermanyGermany Germany
Active time 1950s to 1970s
Achievements
Unless otherwise stated,
the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
Best ED: 1.276
DM 1972 Westerholt
Best GD: 0.937
DM 1965 Düsseldorf
Maximum series (HS): 12
DM 1961 Oberhausen
Continental Championships:
2 × Vice European Champion
Other tournaments:
17 × German champion
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Ernst Rudolph (born August 15, 1918 in Gladbeck ; † September 14, 1986 in Cologne ) was a German carom player in the cadre and three cushion disciplines .

Career

Rudolph was a 17-time German champion, two-time vice European champion and, in the 1950s and 1960s, an important player. Together with Walter Lütgehetmann , August Tiedtke , Siegfried Spielmann and later Dieter Müller , he set the tone in the German billiards scene in his time. He is the father of the three-cushion world champion Christian Rudolph . Father Rudolph laid his son's passion for billiards almost in his cradle. For his baptism he gave him the first cue . In Cologne he ran two billiard salons, where father and son practiced the game.

His first participation in the German Championship (DM) in Cadre 45/2, in Hanover in 1939, he crowned with the title. In the same year he won the first of 8 German championship titles in three cushion. His second participation in the European Championship (EM) in the free game , in 1954 in Lisbon, brought him to fourth place.

At the first DM, 1952, in Cadre 47/1, there was only one torso tournament due to multiple rejections. There were exactly two participants and so a game was played on 300 points. Rudolph lost to Gerd Thielens and was “last” of the tournament as a silver medalist. The following year the tide turned and he won both championships.

In the DM 1951 in cadre 71/2 it was 300 points 299: 300 for Lütgehetmann. Rudolph had the follow-up and wanted to handle it with two gangs. After the usual swing, after the second fence, the ball just missed Ball III . So he was only third in the tournament behind August Tiedtke .

Ernst Rudolph won his last title at the age of 54 at the 39th German three-cushion championship in 1972 in Westerholt.

In terms of character, he was considered to be a calm, steady and persistent player who did not let himself be disturbed even after defeat and who was then able to win a tournament.

successes

Ernst Rudolph
  • European pentathlon championships for national teams : bronze1967
  • German championship (free game): gold 1952, 1954 bronze 1955, 1956
  • German championship (Cadre 45/2 or 47/2): gold1939 silver1955, 1962, 1964 bronze 1952/1, 1952/2, 1953, 1958, 1961
  • German Championship (Cadre 47/1): gold1953/1, 1953/2 silver1952, 1962
  • German championship (Cadre 47/2): gold1953, 1957, 1961 silver1953 bronze 1951
  • German Championship (cover): gold1963 silver1955, 1966 bronze 1953, 1956
  • German three-gold cushion championships : 1939, 1955, 1956, 1961/1, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1972 silver1952, 1953, 1959, 1967 bronze1951, 1961, 1968

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner: Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 1 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 59 .
  2. Christian Rudolph in the Munzinger Archive , accessed on June 29, 2012 ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  3. ^ A b Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner: Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 1 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 437-442 .
  4. ^ A b Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 1 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 562-577 .
  5. ^ Karlheinz Krienen: Deutsche Billard-Zeitung . Ed .: DBB. 10th year, no. 10 . Cologne April 1963, p. 3-5 .
  6. ^ Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner: Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 1 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 33 .
  7. ^ Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner: Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 1 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 286-294 .
  8. ^ Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner: Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 2 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 712-722 .
  9. ^ Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner: Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 2 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 932-945 .