Erwin Münchow (table tennis player)

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Erwin Münchow (around 1916; † 1970 ) is a former German table tennis player . He took part in two world championships .

Career

Münchow won the first German team championship in 1932/33 with the Kiel TTK Grün-Weiß club . In 1937 and 1938 he took part in world championships .

At the 1937 World Cup he lost in the first round both in singles against Hungary's Ferenc Soos and in doubles with Helmut Ulrich against Sol Schiff / Abe Berenbaum (USA). The German team finished eleventh. In 1938 he won the singles against Morris Bassford (USA) and William Goodman (England), then he lost to the Lithuanian Chaimas Duskesas. In doubles with J. Meredith (Wales) he was eliminated in the first round against James McClure / Sol Schiff (USA). With the German team, he came in 10th.

At the National German Championships in 1943 he was third in the individual. In doubles he reached the final with Heinz Benthien . Here they were subject to the Austrians Herbert Wunsch / Heinrich Bednar , who were eligible to play for Germany after the annexation of Austria . In 1949 he was second in mixed with Inge Clausen.

In the German rankings, Münchow took ninth place in 1947/48 and 1949/50. In 1953 he was elected to the referee committee at the federal general assembly of the German Table Tennis Federation DTTB in Edenkoben .

Münchow died in 1970 at the age of 54. He last lived in Herford.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
GER  World Championship  1938  Wembley  CLOSELY   last 32  Scratched  no participants  10 
GER  World Championship  1937  to bathe  AUT   last 64  last 32  no participants  11 

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b died in 1970 at the age of 54, according to DTS magazine , 1970/6 issue Süd-West page 54
  2. ↑ Tischtennis Magazin, official organ of the Lower Saxony table tennis association 2004/12 page 6 + 2005/4 page 12
  3. ^ Table tennis magazine, official organ of the Lower Saxony table tennis association 2005/11 page 14
  4. ↑ ITTF statistics ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on September 13, 2011)

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personal data
SURNAME Münchow, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
DATE OF DEATH 1970