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Josef "Jupp" sleep (born November 23, 1919 in Essen , † February 26, 1989 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German table tennis player and functionary.

Career

Jupp Schlaf had almost exclusively to do with table tennis in his entire life. As an active player, he was one of the best German players nationally between 1947 and 1951. But he became better known through his activities as a functionary. At the age of 17 he was already leading the TTC Schwarz-Gelb Essen-Steele association, which he had co-founded in 1934 and to which he belonged until May 1948. Even during his active career, he played a key role in the rebuilding of table tennis in Germany after the Second World War .

Subsequently he worked - mostly on a voluntary basis - as a functionary for the West German Table Tennis Association WTTV , the German Table Tennis Association DTTB , at the European level and for the world association ITTF .

Table tennis information center

On March 25, 1947, Schlaf set up the International German Table Tennis Information Center (DTTA) based in Essen. The name was chosen because the term "Bund" or "Committee" was forbidden by the occupying powers. The table tennis information center was the predecessor of the DTTB. Schlaf headed this information center as honorary managing director. At the same time, he rebuilt the WTTV (TT-Landesverband Nordrhein-Westfalen), whose managing director he was from April 1947 to October 1949.

German Table Tennis Association DTTB

The DTTB was founded on July 16, 1949. At the first federal general assembly on October 31st in Bad Homburg, Schlaf was appointed the first full-time general secretary of the DTTB. The office moved from Essen to Lübeck (later, in 1956, again to Frankfurt am Main). The office was in sleep until 1981, i.e. for 32 years.

In 1980 he was awarded the Cross of Merit 1st Class by the Federal President for his services to German sport .

European table tennis union ETTU

Jupp Schlaf played a key role in founding the ETTU in 1957. Here he was Vice President from 1961 to 1964 and finally President from 1964 to 1982. He initiated u. a. 1964 the European league for national teams .

World Association ITTF

Between 1953 and 1981 he worked at the ITTF in several committees, from about mid-1958 in the materials committee. From 1967 to 1982 he was Vice President, from 1973 a member of the Council.

End of career

Through his activities on the levels described, Jupp Schlaf gained great influence and power. On the other hand, this abundance of power increasingly led to dissatisfaction and criticism. Conflicts of interest were suspected between his offices as general secretary of the DTTB and the second chairman of the Schleswig-Holstein regional association or between his office as ETTU president and the national committees. The fact that the office of the DTTB was in Schlaf's private rooms also met with unease. The dissatisfaction escalated in 1981: on December 12, 1981 the board of directors of the DTTB in Kleve decided to dismiss Jupp Schlaf without notice for serious violations of the interests of the DTTB . Norbert Wolf became his successor.

Jupp Schlaf died in 1989. He was buried in the Frankfurt Südfriedhof.

Other activities

Jupp Schlaf was a member of the Eintracht Frankfurt board of directors for several years .

Private

Jupp Schlaf had been married to the top German TT player Hannelore Imlau since September 1954 , who also took on voluntary functions after her active career.

Sporting successes

Jupp Schlaf played two international friendlies in 1950 and 1951, one of them against the GDR in Leipzig in November 1950. He won all three singles, including against Heinz Schneider . He took part in German championships 20 times.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
GER  World Championship  1953  Bucharest  ROU   last 128  no participants  no participants 

literature

  • Karl Schaper: A man from the very beginning - Jupp Schlaf General Secretary of the DTTB for 25 years - A life for table tennis ; DTS magazine , 1974/20 page 9
  • Karl Schaper: A life for table tennis - Jupp Schlaf turns "60" ; DTS magazine , 1979/22 page 10

Individual evidence

  1. ^ DTS magazine , 1948/9
  2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1980/12 page 4
  3. ↑ Magazine DTS , Issue West 1958/15 Page 1
  4. ↑ a b Winfried Stöckmann: He lived for table tennis , DTS magazine , 1989/3 page 51
  5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1954/19 page 1
  6. ↑ Magazine DTS , 1966/18 edition south-west side 21
  7. ↑ Jupp Schlaf results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 14, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Sleep, yep
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sleep, Josef (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German table tennis official and player
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1989
Place of death Frankfurt am Main