Gertrude Kleinová

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Gertrude Kleinová (born August 13, 1918 in Brno , † February 19, 1975 in Las Vegas ) was a Czechoslovak table tennis player of Jewish origin. She took part in sporting events of the Jewish gymnastics and sports club Makabi in Czechoslovakia and was one of the most famous Jewish athletes in the country in the interwar period , including successful world championships . She also appeared as Traute Kleinová and Trude Kleinová , after her (second) marriage she was named Gertrude Vogelová-Kleinová .

Life

Gertrude Kleinová grew up in a poor Jewish family; she became a half-orphan at an early age. The family received insufficient social allowances from the Jewish religious community, and little Gertrude still had to do various temporary jobs as a student. While still at school, she joined the Jewish sports and gymnastics club Makkabi Brno and started her sporting career at an early age.

Since 1939 Kleinová was married to Jacob (Jacques) Schalinger, a former functionary of the association. At the beginning of December 1941, because of her Jewish descent, she was deported together with her husband and team coach Erik Vogel on Transport G, initially to the Theresienstadt ghetto and in autumn 1943 on Transport ET to Auschwitz . In contrast to her husband, she survived and in 1946 moved, together with Erik Vogel, to the USA, where they married. They lived in Las Vegas, Kleinová died of cancer in 1975.

Athletic career

The coaches noticed Kleinová's talent early on. She joined the Maccabi Club . Her first notable success was the victory over the reigning national and world champion Marie Kettnerová in 1935. This led to her nomination for the world championship.

Kleinová took part in the World Championships in 1935 , 1936 and 1937 . In 1935 she won the title with the Czechoslovak women's team together with Marie Kettnerová and Marie Šmídová . In 1936 Kleinová defended the women's team title together with Kettnerová, Šmídová and Věra Votrubcová . In 1936 she was also world champion in mixed with Miloslav Hamer .

Because of her successes, she was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1994 .

Results from the ITTF database

Results of the World Championships 1935, 1936 and 1937:

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
TCH World Championship 1937 to bathe AUT last 16 last 16 last 32
TCH World Championship 1936 Prague TCH last 32 Quarter finals gold 1
TCH World Championship 1935 Wembley CLOSELY Quarter finals Quarter finals Quarter finals 1

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Peter Bučka: Židovští sportovci v předválečném Československu , publication of the Židovská obec Brno ( Brno Jewish Community), online at: www.zob.cz/vzdelavani / ...
  2. ↑ a b c Portal Jewish Womens Archive , online at: jwa.org / ...
  3. ↑ TRAUTE KLEINOVA , Kurzinfo de Portals International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame ("Elected members"), online at: jewishsports.net / ...
  4. ↑ ITTF statistics ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 10, 2011) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ittf.com

Remarks

  1. ↑ Often - also in the ITTF database - the name is given as "Hamr". In Czech sources, however, the spelling “Hamer” can be found: film database , ping-pong

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personal data
SURNAME Kleinová, Gertrude
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kleinová, Traute; Kleinová, Trude; Vogelová-Kleinová, Gertrude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak table tennis player of Jewish origin
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno
DATE OF DEATH 19th February 1975
Place of death Las Vegas