Helmut Hanschmann

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Helmut Hanschmann 2004 (before his 70th birthday)
Helmut Hanschmann 1952 Jena
(from left to right) Helmut Hanschmann, Heinz Schneider and Heinz Reimann in the international match Romania - GDR (4: 5), 1953 in Bucharest

Helmut Hanschmann (born November 3, 1934 in Döbeln ; † October 29, 2006 in Jena ) was a table tennis player in the GDR. In the 1950s he was one of their top players. He was GDR champion ten times and took part in world championships three times .

successes

Hanschmann - often called "Hajji" for short - grew up in Chub. In 1948 he joined the Motor Döbeln association. Here he developed into a successful player. Several times he won the youth championship of Saxony. After graduating from high school, he went to the University of Jena in 1953 to study chemistry. From then on he lived in Jena and played for the club FC Carl Zeiss Jena , which later renamed itself BSG Motor Jena and SC Motor Jena . In 1951 he had his first success when he became German youth champion in doubles with R. Kramer. A year later he took second place in the individual.

With the men's team from Jena he was GDR champion from 1952 to 1955 as well as 1958 and 1959. In 1953 and 1954 he took part in the all- German championships and achieved second place in mixed with Hannelore Hanft . At the individual championships of the GDR he won the individual title three times in a row from 1955 to 1957. In doubles he won four times: 1953 and 1955 with Heinz Reimann , 1956 with Peter Schmidt , 1957 with Günter Matthias . There are also three mixed titles with Hannelore Hanft-Giessler from 1954 to 1956.

From 1951 and 1954, Hanschmann played eight international matches for an all-German team and around 50 international matches for the GDR. He had his first mission in 1951 in Bucharest in the 5-4 victory of the GDR against Romania. He had to cancel his invitation to the 1952 World Cup in Bombay at short notice due to sciatica complaints. Then he was nominated for the World Championships in 1953 and 1954 as part of an all-German team. In 1953 he reached seventh place with the all-German team. In 1959 he took part as a GDR national player.

For his successes, Hanschmann was awarded the honorary title of Master of Sports in 1954 .

At the European Championships in Budapest in 1958 , he and his partner Heinz Haupt reached the semi-finals in doubles after defeating the Hungarians Zoltán Berczik / Ferenc Sidó . The later Vice European Champions Toma Reiter / Otto Bottner (Romania) were too strong here. This bronze medal was the first German medal at a European championship.

In 1958 Hanschmann won on a trip to China against the reigning world champion Jung Kuo-Tuan .

In the overall German ranking, Hanschmann was in second place behind Conny Freundorfer in 1954 . In 1965 he ended his active career.

Hanschman died in 2006 after a short, serious illness. He was buried in the Jena North Cemetery.

Professional background

Hanschmann completed his visit to the Lessing High School in Döbeln with a high school diploma with a grade of "good". He then went on to study chemistry at the University of Jena, which he graduated with the grade "very good". He then worked at the Institute for Microbiology and Experimental Therapy (which later became the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology ). In 1969 he received his doctorate from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena with the grade Magna cum laude . After reunification he worked at the Institute for Molecular Biotechnology in Jena .

Private

Hanschmann was married and had a son.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
GDR  European Championship  1958  Budapest  HUN   last 16  Semifinals     
GDR  World Championship  1959  Dortmund  FRG   last 256  last 64  no participants  17th 
GER  World Championship  1954  Wembley  CLOSELY   last 128  last 64  last 128  11 
GER  World Championship  1953  Bucharest  ROU   last 64  last 16  no participants  7th 

swell

  • (JUB75) 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 , page 211.
  • Mourning for Helmut Hanschmann - Thüringische Landeszeitung TLZ , November 8, 2006
  • Farewell to an exceptional phenomenon in Jena , Ostthüringer Zeitung OTZ , November 8, 2006
  • (DÖB2004) Hermann Schneider: “Hadschi's” blow made opponents desperate , “Döbelner Allgemeine Zeitung”, March 9, 2004

Web links

Commons : Helmut Hanschmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ (JUB75) p. 143 - (DÖB2004) incorrectly reports on vice championships in men's doubles for 1954 and 1955. Upon request, the DTTB confirmed the representation in (JUB75)
  2. ↑ Table tennis archive of Hans-Alber Meyer
  3. ↑ Tischtennis Magazin, official organ of the Lower Saxony table tennis association 2006 / 7–8, page 7
  4. ↑ Helmut Hanschmann puts down the bat , DTS magazine , 1966/2 page 13
  5. ↑ ITTF statistics ( memento from January 27, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on April 9, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Hanschmann, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Chub
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 2006
Place of death Jena