Hanns Welter

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Hanns Welter (* before 1916 ; † before 1981 ) was a German table tennis player . He finished second in the individual at the German championship in 1938.

Career

Hanns Welter studied law in Cologne. He was initially active in football, handball and athletics before he started playing table tennis at the age of 20. He joined the club Blau-Weiß Köln . In 1937 he took part in the German championship in Hohenneuendorf. Here he came in third after a defeat against eventual winner Dieter Mauritz . A year later, at the 1938 DM in Breslau, he even reached the final, which he lost to Karl Sediwy . Previously, he had defeated Otto Eckl and Ferdinand Schuech , who came from Vienna . In 1939 he won the German Gaume Championship with the selection of Middle Rhine in a team of two with Helmuth Hoffmann .

In the same year his career was interrupted. He was drafted into the military, suffered injuries at the front and was taken prisoner of war from 1944 to 1947. Then he started again with the sport of table tennis, but no longer reached his previous level of play.

Later he took on official duties in the West German table tennis association WTTV, which he carried out until the early 1970s.

Hanns Welter died between 1971 and 1981.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Welter came to table tennis at the age of 20 and started working for the Cologne club in 1935, according to the DTS magazine , 1949/14 page 7
  2. ↑ a b It has been covered for years ... the green lawn , Karlheinz Simon in DTS magazine , 1981/22 page 18
  3. ↑ 75 years of WTTV - anniversary issue of the West German Table Tennis Association, 2006, publisher: Westdeutscher Tischtennisverband e. V., Duisburg, page 90
  4. ↑ Manfred Schäfer: A game for life. 75 years of DTTB [1925 - 2000]. Ed .: German Table Tennis Association. DTTB, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-00-005890-7 , page 152
  5. ↑ West German Table Tennis Association e. V. - Boards and committees since 1947 (accessed November 15, 2018)

literature

  • Hanns Welter: Table tennis is a question of tactics! , DTS magazine , 1949/14 page 7
personal data
SURNAME Welter, Hanns
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH before 1916
DATE OF DEATH before 1981