Heinz Reimann (table tennis player)

(from left to right) Helmut Hanschmann , Heinz Schneider and Heinz Reimann in the international match Romania - GDR (4: 5), 1953 in Bucharest

Heinz Reimann (born November 2, 1934 in Auerbach (Zwickau) ) is a former German table tennis player . He was one of the best players in the GDR in the 1950s and won 14 national titles.

National successes

Reimann is left-handed. He began his career at the BSG Einheit Auerbach association, which he left in 1950 to switch to BSG Motor Jena . In 1955 he moved to SC Motor Berlin , only to return to Motor Jena two years later. With these clubs he was eight times in a row team champion of the GDR from 1952 to 1959.

At the national individual championships of the GDR Reimann won another six titles: 1953 in singles, in doubles in 1953 and 1955 with Helmut Hanschmann and in 1960 with Lothar Pleuse , in mixed 1953 with Hannelore Hanft and 1959 with Sigrun Kunz . He reached the final in 1955 in mixed with Grete Herber , in 1960 in singles against Lothar Pleuse and in 1961 in doubles with Rolf Lippert .

In 1953 Reimann was in tenth place in the overall German ranking, and in 1958 he was sixth in the GDR ranking

In 1965 Reimann ended his active career. In 1982 he celebrated a comeback at Carl Zeiss Jena.

International appearances

Reimann was nominated for world championships five times, in 1953 , 1957 , 1959 , 1961 and 1963 . At the European Championships in 1960 he reached the quarterfinals with Sigrun Kunz in mixed doubles.

In 1959 Reimann was honored with the title of Master of Sports .

Private

Heinz Reimann attended the Scholl secondary school in Auerbach, where he and his brother Frank discovered table tennis. He married the table tennis player Renate Kohn . He is a precision mechanic by profession.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
GDR	European Championship	1960	Zagreb	YUG			Quarter finals
GDR	World Championship	1963	Prague	TCH	last 256	last 128	no participants
GDR	World Championship	1961	Beijing	CHN	last 128	last 32	last 32	4th
GDR	World Championship	1959	Dortmund	FRG	last 32	last 128	last 128
GER	World Championship	1957	Stockholm	SWE	last 64	last 64	last 16
GER	World Championship	1953	Bucharest	ROU	last 128	last 16	last 16

swell

• Chronicle of the TT Club Auerbach (PDF; 1.7 MB)
• 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. 218.
• TT archive from Hans-Albert Meyer (PDF file; 163 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1957/19 p. 3
2. ↑ Tischtennis Magazin, official organ of the Lower Saxony table tennis association 2006 / 7-8 p. 7 + 2007/10 p. 13
3. ↑ (unknown) GDR newspaper from March 1959 (published before March 27) Ticket: 2011040510006001
4. ↑ ITTF statistics ( Memento of the original from December 23, 2015 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 14, 2011)