Erwin Kaspar

Erwin Kaspar (* around 1920, † 1942) was an Austrian table tennis player . After the annexation of Austria to Germany, he played successfully at German championships several times. He was twice German champion in doubles. With Postsportverein Wien he won the German team championship after the annexation of Austria in 1939. In the Second World War he was drafted into military service. He fell in early 1942.

Sporting successes

• Participation in world championships
  • 1938 in London: 2nd place with Team Austria

• National German championships
  • 1938 in Breslau : 3rd place individual
  • 1940 in Baden near Vienna : 1st place doubles (with Otto Eckl ), 4th place mixed (with Otti Graszl )
  • 1941 in Dresden : 2nd place singles, 1st place doubles (with Herbert Wunsch )

• German team championships
  • 1939 in Hamburg : 1st place with Postsportverein Wien

• societies
  • Währinger TTC
  • Baden AC (from 1935)
  • Post SV Vienna (from 1937)
  • Fair Arkadia (late 1937, early 1938)

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
AUT	World Championship	1938	Wembley	CLOSELY	last 32	Quarter finals	no participants	2
AUT	World Championship	1937	to bathe	AUT	last 32	last 16	no participants

Individual evidence

1. ↑ was 15 years old in 1935 according to N.Ö. Tischtennis-Nachrichten 1983/9 p. 27 (accessed on March 3, 2011; PDF; 1.3 MB)
2. ↑ Manfred Schäfer: A game for life. 75 years of DTTB. (1925-2000) . Published by the German Table Tennis Association DTTB , Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-00-005890-7 , pages 146–148
3. ↑ Neues Wiener Tagblatt, November 10, 1940, page 14 online (accessed on October 9, 2018) + Illustrierte Kronen Zeitung, February 21, 1942, page 8 online (accessed on October 9, 2018)
4. ↑ Sport-Tagblatt January 22, 1938, page 5 (accessed June 21, 2013)
5. ^ Erwin Kaspar results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 9, 2011)