Hertha Maier

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Hertha Maier (born as Hertha Raffalt ) (born April 13, 1922 in Ingolstadt ; † October 2, 1967 in Ingolstadt) was a German table tennis player . She was one of the best players in Germany in the 1950s.

Career

Hertha Raffalt began her career in Ingolstadt. She married around 1950 and from then on played under the name Hertha Maier for the club MTV Munich 1879 . With this she became the German women's team champion in 1950/51. At the Bavarian Championships , she won six times in singles and five times in doubles between 1949 and 1960. In 1949 she became German runner-up in doubles with Gisela Eberth , and two years later she came third in singles. In Germany Cup they won in 1949-50 with the team of Bayern.

Hertha Maier was the first national player from Bavaria. She was nominated for the 1951 World Cup in Vienna, where she finished ninth with the German team. At the 1959 World Cup in Dortmund, she only took part in the individual competitions.

In 1950/51 she was ranked third in the national DTTB rankings.

Private

Hertha Maier had a daughter (* 1954).

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
FRG  World Championship  1959  Dortmund  FRG   last 128  last 32  last 128   
GER  World Championship  1951  Vienna  AUT   last 16  last 16  last 64  9 

swell

  • Hertha Maier † , DTS magazine , 1967/20 issue Süd-West p. 12

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hertha Maier's life data stored in the OTRS . Editor: City Museum / City Archives / Wiss. Library Ingolstadt
  2. ↑ Bavarian Championships 1947-1950 (accessed on September 2, 2013)
  3. ↑ Bayern tischtennis online 2007 January 10, page 7 (PDF; 639 kB) (accessed on September 2, 2013)
  4. ↑ Table tennis magazine, official organ of the Lower Saxony table tennis association 2005/6 p. 8
  5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1954/9 p. 13
  6. ↑ Hertha Maier results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 12, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Maier, Hertha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Raffalt, Hertha; Maier, Herta Helene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Ingolstadt
DATE OF DEATH October 2nd, 1967
Place of death Ingolstadt