Hilde Bussmann

Hildegard (Hilde) Bussmann (born November 24, 1914 in Düsseldorf ; † January 10, 1988 ) was a German table tennis player .

Life

Bussman was nominated 34 times for international matches from 1934 to 1951. She won two gold medals at the 1939 World Cup . Between 1936 and 1951 she was German individual champion seven times; this record was exceeded by Nicole Struse in 2005 when she won the German championship for the eighth time.

Before the Second World War, Hilde Bussmann played for the “Mercedes Club” Duisburg , until 1951 for the SSV Oberkassel club , after which she moved first to Borussia Düsseldorf and shortly afterwards to Eintracht Frankfurt , with whose team she was three times German champions. From 1947 to 1951 she was in first place in the German rankings.

In 1957, the Federal President awarded her the Silver Laurel Leaf for her outstanding sporting achievements .

Hilde Bussmann lived in Düsseldorf. Together with her friend Karin Lindberg , she ran a lottery and toto acceptance point there from 1946 to February 1984.

successes

• World championships
  • 1934 in Paris: 3rd place doubles with Magda Gál (HUN),
  • 1935 in London: 3rd place doubles with L. Booker (ENG), 3rd place with team
  • 1936 in Prague: quarter-finals in doubles, 2nd place with team
  • 1937 in Baden: 2nd place with team
  • 1939 in Cairo: 1st place doubles with Trude Pritzi , 3rd place mixed with Marcel Geargoura (EGY), 1st place with "Greater German" team
  • 1951 in Vienna: quarter-finals in doubles (with Berti Capellmann ), member of the German team (9th place)

• National German championships
  • 1934 in Braunschweig - 2nd place individual
  • 1935 in Stettin - 3rd place individual
  • 1936 in Gelsenkirchen - 1st place individual
  • 1937 in Berlin - 1st place individual
  • 1939 in Frankfurt / Main - 2nd place individual
  • 1940 in Dresden - 2nd place singles, 2nd place doubles with Anita Felguth , 3rd place mixed with Heinz Benthien
  • 1947 in Heppenheim - 1st place singles, 1st place doubles with Karin Lindberg , 2nd place mixed with Heinz Vossen
  • 1948 in Göttingen - 1st place singles, 3rd place mixed with Heinz Vossen
  • 1949 in Lübeck - 1st place singles, 3rd place doubles with Karin Lindberg
  • 1950 in Rheydt - 1st place singles, 2nd place doubles with Berti Capellmann , 2nd place mixed with Helmuth Hoffmann
  • 1951 in Berlin / West - 1st place singles, 1st place doubles with Berti Capellmann, 2nd place mixed with Helmuth Hoffmann
  • 1954 in East Berlin - 3rd place doubles (with Ilse Donath )

• International German championships
  • 1936 in Sopot - 2nd place singles, 1st place doubles with Astrid Krebsbach , 1st place mixed with Stanislav Kolář (TCH)
  • 1937 in Berlin - 3rd place singles, 1st place doubles with Astrid Hobohm
  • 1938 in Krefeld - 3rd place singles, 2nd place doubles with Karin Lindberg
  • 1939 in Brandenburg - 2nd place singles, 1st place doubles with Trude Pritzi

• Other international championships
  • 1938 TCH - 1st place doubles with Marie Kettnerová (TCH)

• German team championships
  • 1952 - 1st place with Eintracht Frankfurt
  • 1953 - 1st place with Eintracht Frankfurt
  • 1954 - 2nd place with Eintracht Frankfurt
  • 1955 - 2nd place with Eintracht Frankfurt
  • 1956 - 1st place with Eintracht Frankfurt

• Germany Cup
  • 1951 - 1st place with WTTV
  • 1952 - 1st place with WTTV

• West German championships
  • 1951 in Neuhaus - 2nd place doubles (under Borussia Düsseldorf) with Berti Capellmann

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
GER	World Championship	1951	Vienna	AUT	last 64	Quarter finals	Scratched	9
GER	World Championship	1939	Cairo	EGY	last 16	gold	Semifinals	1
GER	World Championship	1937	to bathe	AUT	Semifinals	last 16	no participants	2
GER	World Championship	1936	Prague	TCH	last 32	Quarter finals	no participants	2
GER	World Championship	1935	Wembley	CLOSELY	last 16	Semifinals	Scratched	3
GER	World Championship	1934	Paris	FRA	last 32	Semifinals	last 16

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Magazine DTS , 1959/5 edition west side 7
2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1984/11 page 36 + Tina Halberschmidt: Die "wilde Hilde" , article from January 10, 2008 in DERWESTEN (accessed on December 1, 2019)
3. ↑ ITTF database (accessed December 1, 2019)

swell

Manfred Schäfer, Winfried Stöckmann, Norbert Wolf and others: A game for life. 75 years of the German Table Tennis Association [1925–2000] . Ed .: German Table Tennis Association. Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-00-005890-7 , p. 206 (224 pages, commemorative publication).