Grete Herber

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Grete Herber née Köhler (born September 15, 1910 in Jena-Ost , † 2005 in Halberstadt ) was a German table tennis player from the 1950s. She won seven titles at GDR championships.

Career

Herber initially operated athletics in the Wenigenjena gymnastics club. In 1928 she finished fourth at the German championships in four-way gymnastics. In the same year she was Gaumeisterin in Thuringia in the high jump and second in the four-way fight.

After the Second World War , she started playing table tennis. She first played in Weimar and from 1951 at the BSG Einheit Ost Erfurt club, with whom she won the GDR women's team championship in 1953/54 and 1954/55. At the GDR individual championships she won seven titles, namely twice in singles and five times in doubles. She always competed in doubles with Hannelore Hanft . Until 1954, GDR activists were also allowed to take part in the National German Championships . Hanft / Gerber took advantage of this and won the German championship in doubles in 1953. With the team from Thuringia, Herber won the German Cup in 1953/54 .

In 1950, Herber topped the list in the GDR. In 1954 she was ranked sixth in the overall German ranking. Because of her success, she was honored with the title of Master of Sports in 1954 .

Title overview

  • GDR championships
    • 1949 single place two
    • 1950 single place two
    • 1952 doubles with Hannelore Hanft
    • 1953 singles, doubles with Hannelore Hanft
    • 1954 single place second, double with Hannelore Hanft
    • 1955 singles, doubles with Hannelore Hanft. Mixed second place with Heinz Reimann
    • 1956 double place two with Hannelore Hanft
    • 1957 double place two with Hannelore Hanft
    • 1958 doubles with Hannelore Hanft
    • 1959 double place two with Hannelore Hanft
  • GDR team championships
    • 1953/54 BSG unit East Erfurt
    • 1954/55 BSG unit East Erfurt
  • National German championships
    • 1952 third place single
    • 1953 doubles with Hannelore Hanft
    • 1954 double third place with Hannelore Hanft

Private

From 1929 to 1930 Grete Köhler was trained as a handicraft teacher. From 1930 she attended a course for gymnastics teachers at the Jena State Gymnastics Institute, at the end of which in April 1931 she was qualified as a primary school teacher for handicrafts and sports. She practiced this profession from 1931 to 1936 in the Jena district. In 1936 she married Rolf Herber with whom she had four daughters. Rolf Herber fell in World War II . From 1939 she lived in Weimar. Here she worked as an office assistant, after 1949 as a sports teacher in Erfurt and from 1960 at the Herderschule in Weimar.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Schäfer: A game for life. 75 years of DTTB. (1925-2000) . Published by the German Table Tennis Association DTTB , Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-00-005890-7 , p. 153
  2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1955/22 West issue p. 17
  3. ↑ Tischtennis Magazin, Official Organ of the Lower Saxony Table Tennis Association 2006, Issue 7–8, p. 7

swell

  • Hans-Georg Kremer: Gretchen Herber - one of the first students at the Landesturnanstalt in Jena , which opened in 1929 , p. 17 (accessed on July 27, 2010) (PDF; 2.1 MB)

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personal data
SURNAME Herber, Grete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Köhler, Grete (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena East
DATE OF DEATH 2005
Place of death Halberstadt