Jan Dommering

Jan Dommering
Personal details
birthday	November 23, 1882
place of birth	Winschoten , Netherlands
date of death	4th October 1958
Place of death	Arnhem , the Netherlands
nationality	Netherlands
Active time	1910-1944
Achievements Unless otherwise stated, the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
Best GD: 25.35
(Carde 45/2, 1925 - The Hague )
Maximum series (HS): 263
( Cadre 45/2 , 1927)
World Championships:
1 × (1925 - Paris , France )
Continental Championships:
1 × EM (1925 - The Hague , Netherlands )

The 70-year-old Dommering in 1952 in Arnhem

Jan Dommering (born November 23, 1882 in Winschoten , † October 4, 1958 in Arnhem ) was a Dutch carambola player .

Life

Dommering is the son of a hotelier and grew up in the former municipality of Winschoten. He learned to play billiards from his father. In Germany he trained as a hotelier and then worked in Munich , Genoa , Nice and Ostend . In 1907 he opened the Hotel Bristol in Arnhem. Dommering also became the owner of the hotel and cinema "Frigge Luxor" in Groningen . In Arnhem he was a member of the local tourist information office VVV . He had an international reputation as a hotelier and advised the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York , among others . During the Second World War he supported the local resistance in Arnhem. He was a member of the Free Netherlands Committee. When pictures of two members of the Dutch National Socialist Movement (NSB) on a poster with the text “They are not Jews” were hanging on a hinged window of his hotel, he demonstratively removed them. Later he was imprisoned in Camp Amersfoort for some time . After the Battle of Arnhem and the evacuation of the city, he continued to live in his hotel and worked with the technical emergency service, who tried to make areas of the city habitable again. After the war, Dommering was active in the " Expogé ", a Dutch association for political prisoners during the occupation.

Career

From around 1910 Dommering took part in national billiards competitions. He received lessons from the famous Belgian player Edouard Horemans . In 1920 he won his first Dutch championship in Cadre 45/2 . Dommering was able to fight for a total of ten national titles in this discipline, the last in 1937. In 1925 he won the first ever European championship in Cadre 45/2. He set a new European record in the top series with 193. At the world championship in the same discipline, two months later in April 1925 in Paris, he made the game at 397: 347 for the Belgian Théo Moons with a series of 53 points and became world champion. After returning to his hometown of Arnhem, he was greeted by thousands of citizens. At the Dutch championship in 1927 he managed a maximum series (HS) of 263 balls. He broke Ed Roudil's world record for a ball. When he was over 60, he took part in the 1944 Dutch championships in cadre 71/2 . He was eighth and last in the tournament. Dommering was an honorary member of the Dutch "Billiard Federation" and a teacher, including the German world champion August Tiedtke .

Honors

Dommering was made a Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau and honored with the War Mobilization Cross . In Arnhem, the Jan Dommering Path was named after him.

successes

• Cadre 45/1 World Championship : 1932
• Cadre 45/2 World Championship : 1925 • 1924, 1926 • 1933
• Cadre 71/2 World Championship : 1931
• Cadre 45/2 European Championship : 1925 • 1932 • 1927, 1929, 1931
• Dutch champion: 10 ×

Web links

Commons : Jan Dommering  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Photo of 70-year-old Jan Dommering

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• Jan Dommering overleden , Leeuwarder Courant, October 8, 1958.
• Jan Dommering 1882-1958, hotelier, biljarter en verzetsstrijder , in Biographical Dictionary Gelderland.
• Witkamp, ​​Anton en Leo van de Ruit (ind.) The Top 500: the best Dutch athletes of the century . Maarssen, Premium Press (1999).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} player statistics. Kozoom , accessed June 26, 2012 .  
2. ↑ Person entry Dommering, Jan. Huygens, accessed on March 21, 2017 (Dutch).