Fritz Zinn

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Fritz Zinn (* unknown; † around 1950 in New York ) was a German table tennis player and functionary. He took part in the 1926 World Cup.

Zinn lived in Berlin, most recently (1933) in Charlottenburg. At the 1926 World Cup in London, he only appeared in doubles with Curt Gerstmann . After bye in the first round they were eliminated against the Englishmen HA Benett / George J. Ross.

At the same time, Zinn also took on official duties. From 1925 to 1933 he was the first treasurer of the German Table Tennis Association DTTB . From December 1926 he was also an assessor in the presidium of the World Table Tennis Federation ITTF ("Advisory Committee").

In the course of the " Aryanization ", Zinn had to resign from the DTTB office in 1933, as did other "non-Aryan" functionaries, such as sports warden Dr. Herbert Caro .

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
GER  World Championship  1926  London  CLOSELY   no participants  last 16  no participants   

Individual evidence

  1. according to a report by Herbert Caro in: Zeitschrift DTS , 1966/12 page 43
  2. ITTF Museum ( Memento of the original from April 20, 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 April 19, 2014)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ittf.com
  3. ^ Fritz Zinn results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 17, 2011)

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