Georg Böhm (table tennis player)

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Zsolt-Georg Boehm Table tennis player
Nation: GermanyGermany Germany HungaryHungaryHungary 
Date of birth: April 17, 1962
Place of birth: Bihor County
Playing hand: right
How to play: Shakehand
Best world ranking : 56 (March 1988)

Zsolt-Georg Böhm (born April 17, 1962 in Sălacea , Bihor district ) is a former German - Hungarian table tennis player and author who was born in Romania .

Time in Romania

Böhm started playing table tennis at the age of seven. He was able to win a total of 25 national titles. In 1977, 1978, 1979 he won the national youth championship, in 1978 and 1979 the men's championship in singles (where he defeated his brother Josef in the final in 1978 ), in 1977 and 1978 in doubles with his brother and five times with the club CSM Cluj.

In 1978 he was European youth champion in doubles (with Simion Crișan ) and time in mixed (with Éva Ferenczi ). In 1980 he took part in the European Championship in Bern for his country of birth . After that he did not return to Romania and instead moved to Mörfelden near Frankfurt am Main .

Time in Germany

In the 1980s he was one of the strongest players in Germany. He was German individual champion six times. Eight times he took part in European championships and six times in world championships. In 1988 he entered the Olympic Games . Between 1982 and 1993 he played 102 international matches for Germany. In his first international match, the Europa League match with the CSSR in September 1982, he won and lost one individual. In 1983, 1985 and 1987 he was DTTB Player of the Year .

Böhm made negative headlines at the 1986 European Championships in Prague when he was expelled from the team after a dispute with national coach Charles Roesch and a fine was later imposed on him by the DTTB federal court.

Today (2018) he is an educator. He still plays in the major league in the 1st team of the TVB Nassau an der Lahn.

Private

Böhm's parents were both doctors. His father's ancestors come from Swabia and emigrated to Romania in 1735. His father played table tennis in the Romanian first division. He has a brother named Josef who is two years older than him and who followed him to Germany in December 1981. In the mid-1990s, Böhm completed a degree in primary school education and sports. Since July 1993 he has been married to Susanne, who was born in Romania. He is the father of three children, two of whom play table tennis. In 2013 he published his autobiography Mein Wunder von Bern . His novel The Pontifex Message was published in 2018 ( ISBN 3946635091 ).

successes

  • European Championship for Seniors
  • Seniors World Championship
    • 2018 Las Vegas - victory in the age group 55+ in doubles with Traian Ciociu (Luxembourg)
  • National German championships
    • 1981 Böblingen - 2nd place singles, 4th place doubles (with Jürgen Rebel )
    • 1982 Hanover - 1st place individual
    • 1983 Münster - 1st place individual
    • 1984 Hanover - 3rd place singles, 1st place doubles (with Josef Böhm )
    • 1985 Saarbrücken - 1st place individual
    • 1986 Stadtallendorf - 1st place individual
    • 1987 Berlin - 1st place individual
    • 1988 Duisburg - 4th place singles, 2nd place mixed (with Olga Nemes )
    • 1989 Böblingen - 2nd place individual
    • 1990 Marburg - 4th place singles, 1st place mixed (with Jin-Sook Cords )
    • 1992 Rostock - 3rd place individual
    • 1993 Münster - 3rd place individual
    • 1995 Böblingen - 1st place individual
  • National ranking tournament
    • 1981 Kleve - 1st place
    • 1982 Dautphetal - 2nd place
    • 1983 Willstätt - 1st place
    • 1984 Geesthacht - 1st place
    • 1985 wages - 1st place
    • 1986 Kassel - 2nd place
    • 1987 Solingen - 4th place
    • 1988 Elsenfeld - 4th place
    • 1988 Homburg - 1st place
    • 1989 Krefeld - 2nd place
    • 1990 Berlin - 2nd place
    • 1991 Groß-Bieberau - 2nd place
    • 1992 Elsenfeld - 3rd place
    • 1997 Kleve - 1st place
  • Participation in 6 table tennis world championships
    • 1979 in Pyongyang: Participation for Romania
    • 1983 in Tokyo: 15th place with team
    • 1985 in Gothenburg: 17th place with team
    • 1987 in New Delhi: 7th place with team
    • 1989 in Dortmund: 7th place with team
    • 1991 in Chiba: 5th place with team
  • Participation in 8 table tennis European championships
    • 1978 in Duisburg: Participation for Romania
    • 1980 in Bern: Participation for Romania, 10th place with team
    • 1982 in Budapest: Participation for Germany, only individual competition
    • 1984 in Moscow: 9th place with team
    • 1986 in Prague: 8th place with team
    • 1988 in Paris: 6th place with team
    • 1990 in Gothenburg: 2nd place with team, round of 16 in individual
    • 1992 in Stuttgart: 3rd place with team
  • Europe TOP-12
    • 1988 in Ljubljana: 10th place
    • 1989 in Charleroi: 5th place
  • International championships
    • 1977 Spain 3rd place individual
    • 1977 Spain 2nd place doubles
    • 1979 GDR: 2nd place doubles
    • 1979 GDR: 2nd place mixed
    • 1979 Bulgaria: 3rd place individual
    • 1979 Greece: 1st place individual
    • 1980 Guernsey: 1st place singles
    • 1982 Korea: 3rd place individual
    • 1983 Wales: 2nd mixed
    • 1983 Italy: 3rd place doubles
    • 1984 England: 3rd place singles
    • 1988 France: 3rd place individual
    • 1988 France: 3rd place doubles
    • 1988 Germany: 3rd place individual
  • German team championship
    • 1983: 1st place with ATSV Saarbrücken
    • 1984: 1st place with ATSV Saarbrücken
    • 1985: 1st place with ATSV Saarbrücken
    • 1987: 1st place with TTC drawbridge Grenzau
    • 1991: 1st place with TTC drawbridge Grenzau
    • 1994: 1st place with TTC drawbridge Grenzau
  • Successes in Romanian times
    • 1978 European Youth Championship: 1st place doubles (with Simion Crișan), 1st place mixed (with Éva Ferenczi)
    • 1978 Romanian individual champion in Cluj
    • 1978 Romanian champion in men's doubles with Josef Böhm
    • 1979 Romanian individual champion in Târgu Mureș

societies

Results from the ITTF database

Association competition year place country singles Double Mixed team
ROU Balkan Championship 1979 Athens GRE gold gold
FRG European Championship 1990 Gothenburg SWE last 16 2
FRG European Youth Championship (Juniors) 1978 Barcelona ESP gold gold
FRG EURO TOP12 1989 Charleroi BEL 5
FRG EURO TOP12 1988 Ljubljana YUG 10
FRG Olympic games 1988 Seoul COR immediately excluded immediately excluded
GER World Championship 1991 Chiba City JPN last 32 last 32 last 128 5
FRG World Championship 1989 Dortmund FRG last 128 last 32 last 128 7th
FRG World Championship 1987 New Delhi IND last 32 last 32 last 64 7th
FRG World Championship 1985 Gothenburg SWE last 128 last 64 last 32 17th
FRG World Championship 1983 Tokyo JPN last 64 last 64 last 64 15th
ROU World Championship 1979 Pyongyang PRK last 64 last 32 last 64 17th
FRG World cup 1989 Nairobi KEN 5

Publications

  • Zsolt-Georg Böhm: My miracle from Bern: Childhood, flight and career of a Transylvanian table tennis player (autobiography), Bonn, Hermannstadt: Schiller-Verlag 2013, ISBN 978-3-944529-02-8 .
  • Zsolt-Georg Böhm: The Pontifex Message (Roman), Bremen, Musketier-Verlag 2018, ISBN 9783946635093 .

literature

  • Rahul Nelson: Georg and Josef Böhm: A pair of brothers on the road to success , DTS magazine , 1986/2 pages 32–34
  • Erich Philippi: Georg and Josef Böhm, the number 1 brothers in the DTTB - Much in common and yet different , DTS magazine , 1983/2 page 31

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1982/18 page 39
  2. ↑ Magazine DTS , 1986/5 Page 3
  3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1986/11 page 30
  4. ↑ Magazine DTS , 1983/2 Page 31
  5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1997/1 page 20
  6. ↑ DTS magazine , 1993/8 page 11
  7. ↑ Georg Böhm (table tennis player) Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 4, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Bohm, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bohm, Zsolt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Sălacea , Bihor County , Romania