Josef Wenninghoff

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Josef Wenninghoff ( February 12, 1937 - February 19, 2017 ) was a German table tennis player . He was German mixed master and took part in the 1957 World Cup.

youth

Wenninghoff played for the TTV Metelen club . In 1953 and 1954 he won several titles with the West German Table Tennis Association WTTV and at the DTTB level:

  • 1953: German youth champion in singles
  • 1953/54: West German champion in singles, doubles (with Klemens Tietmeyer ) and mixed (with Maria Klein )
  • 1954: German youth champion in singles

As a 15-year-old Wenninghoff was integrated into the men's team of TTV Metelen, which at that time competed in the top German division, the Oberliga , and was German cup winner in 1958 and German team champion in 1959.

Adults

With this team he was German cup winner in 1958, German champion in 1959 and German runner-up in 1960. He also achieved several good placements at the German individual championships. With Ulla Paulsen he became German mixed champion in 1957, and the couple reached the semi-finals a year later. In doubles he made it to the final twice, namely in 1955 with Leo Jungeburth and 1957 with Bernie Vossebein . With Vossebein he finished third in the 1959 DM. In 1958 he had won the West German championship in doubles with him.

In 1955 Wenninghoff was ranked 11th in the German ranking.

An international success was winning the double competition with Bernie Vossebein at the international championships in Luxembourg. In 1957 he was nominated for the individual competitions of the World Cup in Stockholm. Here the well-rehearsed double with Bernie Vossebein advanced three rounds through victories over Mahomed Cassim Peer / Mohamed Goolam Hoosen Molla (South Africa), Bjorn Olov Karlsson / Leif Bergman (Sweden) and Sebastiao Coelho / Antonio Osorio (Portugal) before it went to the Hungarians Ferenc Sidó / Elemer Gyetvay failed. Wenninghoff was eliminated in the first round against Einar Lyttik (Denmark).

For his success, Wenninghoff was awarded the Silver Badge of Honor by the West German Table Tennis Association in 1965 and the Golden Badge of Honor of the West German Table Tennis Association WTTV in 1989.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
GER World Championship 1957 Stockholm SWE last 128 last 16 no participants

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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 167
  2. ↑ a b c WTTV roll of honor ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2016 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 February 1, 2016) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / wttv.de
  3. ^ Association homepage of the TTV Metelen (accessed on March 16, 2011)
  4. ↑ Table tennis magazine, official organ of the Lower Saxony table tennis association 2006/9, page 3
  5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1958/9 page 1
  6. ↑ DTS magazine , 1965/24 page 15
  7. ↑ Josef Wenninghoff results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 17, 2011)

Web links

literature

  • Klaus Verburg: Obituary - deep grief at TTV Metelen: Josef Wenninghoff died , tischtennis magazine , 2017/3 Region 3 page 5
personal data
SURNAME Wenninghoff, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1937
DATE OF DEATH 19th February 2017