Gabriele Geissler

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Gabriele "Gaby" Geißler , later Gabriele Orgis (born November 1, 1944 in Dresden , † June 14, 2006 in Berlin ), was a German table tennis player . For the GDR she won the silver medal at the 1969 World Cup.

Career

At first, Gabriele Geißler was successful in the game of chess . In 1958 she became the student master of East Berlin. Then she shifted the focus to table tennis. Various coaches such as Gerhard Lasensky, Rainer Lotsch, Lothar Rönsch, Gerhard Jäkel and Heinz Haupt promoted the development of the defender. She made up for a lack of talent with persistent training. It began in 1958 at the SC Einheit Berlin association , which later renamed itself to TSC Berlin and in 1967 to BSG Außenhandel Berlin and rejoined TSC Berlin in 1990. Here she still played in the 2nd Bundesliga . In 1994 she ended her active career.

Success in the GDR

Between 1963 and 1980 Gaby Geißler dominated the table tennis scene among women in the GDR. She was GDR individual champion nine times. From 1964 to 1975 and 1977 to 1981 she was GDR team champion with BSG Außenhandel Berlin (until 1967 TSC Berlin) and in 1968 and 1969 she was also the European champion of the national champions . In 1990 she played with SG Friedrichstadt-Berlin in the major league.

World championships

In a total of 4 World Cup participations, she reached the quarter-finals in women's singles in 1967 and in a total of 3 European Championship participations in 1968, the quarter-finals in women's singles, doubles and mixed doubles.

Her greatest international success was the 2nd place at the World Table Tennis Championships in Munich in 1969, where she was defeated 1: 3 in the final despite winning the first set to Japanese Toshiko Kowada . Before that she had against a Korean (5 sets), against Swetlana Grinberg (Soviet Union, 4 sets), against the West German Edith Wetzel (5 sets after 0: 2 deficit) and against the Japanese Miho Hamada (again 5 sets after 0: 2 Residue).

Gaby Geissler proved her fairness when she corrected a wrong decision by the referee in the first set of the final at 17:18 and gave her opponent a point by deliberately hitting a ball.

To this day (2006) Gaby Geißler is the only German who reached the final at a World Cup after the Second World War. Even before the war, Astrid Krebsbach won two silver medals in 1934 and 1936.

End of the international career

In 1970 Gaby Geissler fell out of favor. She refused to work with the association trainer and SED functionary Werner Rahnfeld, and she was accused of contacts with the West. Therefore she was banned and not considered for the 1970 European Championship in Moscow . The association BSG Außenhandel Berlin also had to do without them in December 1970 at the European Cup of national champions. That ended her international career. She was appointed to the GDR national team around 60 times.

In 1969 she began studying at the Berlin School of Economics and graduated in 1973 with a diploma.

In 1989 Geißler came into the spotlight again. The DTTB and Heinz Schneider invited her to the World Championships in Dortmund. The DTSB of the GDR initially refused to leave the country. Then Schneider complained by letter to Egon Krenz , who was responsible for sport in the SED Politburo at the time. On the western side, Wolfgang Mischnick (leader of the FDP parliamentary group) campaigned for the departure. With success, Schneider and Gabriele Orgis-Geißler were allowed to travel to Dortmund .

Geissler-Orgis died of cancer.

family

Gabriele Geißler was married to the chemist Joachim Orgis. She had a son.

successes

  • World championships
    • 1963 in Prague: 5th place with team
    • 1965 in Ljubljana: 10th place with team
    • 1967 in Stockholm: quarter-finals singles (lost to future world champion Sachiko Morisawa ), 8th place with team
    • 1969 in Munich: 2nd place individual, 7th place with team
  • European championships
    • 1961 in Bad Blankenburg (European Youth Championship): 3rd place with the girls' team
    • 1964 in Malmö: 7th place with team
    • 1966 in London: Quarterfinals singles, 7th place with team
    • 1968 in Lyon: quarter finals singles, quarter finals doubles, quarter finals mixed, 6th place with team
  • GDR championships
    • 1964 in Schwerin - 1st place individual
    • 1965 in Berlin - 1st place singles, 2nd place doubles with Doris Hovestädt
    • 1966 in Jena - 1st place doubles with Doris Hovestädt
    • 1967 in Görlitz - 1st place singles, 1st place doubles with Doris Hovestädt
    • 1968 in Schkeuditz - 2nd place singles, 1st place doubles with Doris Hovestädt , 1st place mixed with Siegfried Lemke
    • 1969 in Dresden - 1st place doubles with Doris Hovestädt
    • 1970 in Halle-Neustadt - 1st place singles, 1st place doubles with Doris Hovestädt
    • 1971 in Freiberg - 1st place singles, 1st place doubles with Doris Hovestädt , 1st place mixed with Bernd Raue
    • 1972 in Eisenach - 2nd place singles, 1st place doubles with Doris Hovestädt
    • 1973 in Blankenburg (Harz) - 2nd place singles, 2nd place doubles with Rita Möbes, 1st place mixed with Bernd Raue
    • 1974 in Erfurt - 1st place singles, 2nd place doubles with Carla Strauss , 2nd place mixed with Bernd Raue
    • 1975 in Brandenburg - 1st place singles, 1st place doubles with Marina Lange
    • 1976 in Ludwigslust - 2nd place singles, 2nd place doubles with Ellen Stöckel, 1st place mixed with Bernd Raue
    • 1978 in Berlin - 1st place individual
    • 1979 in Eberswalde - 1st place singles, 1st place doubles with Karin Kromnik , 1st place mixed with Norbert Drescher
    • 1980 in Leipzig - 2nd place singles, 1st place mixed with Norbert Drescher
  • International championships
    • 1965 in GDR - 3rd place singles, 1st place doubles with Doris Hovestädt
    • 1966 in Poland - 1st place doubles with Erika Richter , 1st place team
    • 1967 in Yugoslavia - 2nd place individual
    • 1968 in Poland - 1st place singles, 1st place doubles with Doris Hovestädt , 1st place team
    • 1968 in CSSR - 3rd place single, 2nd place double
    • 1969 in GDR - 2nd place singles, 2nd place doubles, 1st place team
    • 1969 in Hungary - 2nd place singles, 1st place doubles with Doris Hovestädt
    • 1969 in Yugoslavia - 2nd place mixed
    • 1971 in GDR - 1st place doubles with Doris Hovestädt
    • 1973 in GDR - 2nd place doubles
    • 1979 in GDR - 3rd place individual
  • GDR team championships
    • 1964 in Schwerin - 1st place with TSC Berlin
    • 1965 in Berlin - 1st place with TSC Berlin
    • 1966 in Jena - 1st place with TSC Berlin
    • 1967 in Görlitz - 1st place with TSC Berlin
    • 1968 in Schkeuditz - 1st place with BSG Foreign Trade Berlin
    • 1969 in Dresden - 1st place with BSG Foreign Trade Berlin
    • 1970 in Halle-Neustadt - 1st place with BSG Foreign Trade Berlin
    • 1971 in Freiberg - 1st place with BSG Foreign Trade Berlin
    • 1972 in Eisenach - 1st place with BSG Foreign Trade Berlin
    • 1973 in Blankenburg (Harz) - 1st place with BSG Foreign Trade Berlin
    • 1974 in Erfurt - 1st place with BSG Foreign Trade Berlin
    • 1975 in Brandenburg - 1st place with BSG Foreign Trade Berlin
    • 1976 in Ludwigslust - 1st place with BSG Foreign Trade Berlin
    • 1977 in Cottbus - 2nd place with BSG Foreign Trade Berlin
    • 1978 in Berlin - 1st place with BSG Foreign Trade Berlin
    • 1979 in Eberswalde - 1st place with BSG Foreign Trade Berlin
    • 1980 in Leipzig - 1st place with BSG Foreign Trade Berlin
    • 1981 in Finsterwalde - 1st place with BSG Foreign Trade Berlin
    • 1982 in Freiberg - 2nd place with BSG Foreign Trade Berlin
    • 1984 in Zwickau - 2nd place with BSG Foreign Trade Berlin
  • DTTV ranking tournaments
    • 1976 in Zwickau - 1st place
  • National German senior championships
    • 1990 in Itzehoe - 2nd place individual (over 40)
    • 1991 in Hagen - 2nd place doubles with Ev-Kathlen Zemke (over 40)
    • 1992 in Zweibrücken - 1st place doubles with Ev-Kathlen Zemke (40+)

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
GDR  European Championship  1968  Lyon  FRA   Quarter finals  Quarter finals  Quarter finals   
GDR  European Championship  1966  London  CLOSELY   Quarter finals       
GDR  World Championship  1969  Munich  FRG   silver  last 16  no participants  7th 
GDR  World Championship  1967  Stockholm  SWE   Quarter finals  last 16  last 64  8th 
GDR  World Championship  1965  Ljubljana  YUG   last 64  last 16  last 32  10 

literature

  • Gerhard Claar: Gabriele Geißler-Orgis (GDR) memories of the 1969 World Cup in Munich. “A student from Uppsala ...” , DTS magazine , 1989/3 p. 24.
  • Friedrich-Karl and Anita Brauns : Obituary. Don't give up, fight to the end , tischtennis magazine , 2006/7 p. 29.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1977/23 p. 20 + 1984/2 inner part p. 44
  2. ↑ ITTF statistics ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 on September 7, 2011)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ittf.com
personal data
SURNAME Geissler, Gabriele
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Orgis, Gabriele; Geissler-Orgis, Gabriele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 2006
Place of death Berlin