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The Kiel TTK Grün-Weiß is the oldest German table tennis club . His teams won the German championship several times.

Foundation of an association

The club was founded in 1925 by Kurt Entholt under the name of Kieler Tischtennis-Klub , making it the oldest German table tennis club. In 1957 they merged with the TTC Grün-Weiß , which had been created in 1949, and called themselves Kieler TTK Grün-Weiß .

Men's team

At the first German team championship in 1932/33, the Kiel men won the title. In the final round in Jugenheim, the team consisting of Kurt Entholt , Erwin Münchow , H.Suhr, H.Ladda, Landsberg and Deutelmoser prevailed against SV 98 Darmstadt, TTC Blau-Gold Berlin and Reemtsma-SG Dresden.

A year later, the team became German runners-up (behind TTC Gelb-Weiß Berlin), in the two following years they finished fourth and third. From 1946 to 1948 they came fourth three times in a row. In 1951 the team was represented in the newly founded Oberliga Nord. In the 1959/60 season they appeared again in the Oberliga Nord, as well as several times in the 1970s (1974/75; 1977/78), when the Oberliga was second class below the Bundesliga. In 1982 he was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga.

Women's team

The women's team played from the start in the women's upper league North, introduced in 1959, and from 1960 was one of the leading German teams. She was first German champion in the 1960/61 season before DSC Kaiserberg . At the final in Rheinfelden she played in the line-up Edit Buchholz , Ingrid Kriegelstein , Ellen Buchholz, Monika Block , Hildegard Jaentsch and Karin Fischer.

After two runner-up championships, Kiel was again German champions in 1963/64 ( Edit Buchholz , Ingrid Kriegelstein , Monika Block , Ellen Buchholz).

In the following 6 years Kiel always came second, behind DSC Kaiserberg. This was followed by 4th place in the 1970/71 season and 2nd place again in 1971/72. In 1972 the club belonged to the newly founded, two-part Bundesliga .

In 1974 the women's team won the German championship for the third time ( Edit Wetzel , Monika Block , Ingrid Bahnert ). In the two following years she finished 3rd. It was relegated, in 1981 the rise and 3rd place in the 1981/82 season.

In 1983/84 and 1984/85 the team came second again. They won the German Cup four times, namely in 1962, 1969, 1972 and 1983.

retreat

In June 1985 the 1st chairman Norbert Schlichtenberger (who is still in office today ( August 2010 )) withdrew the teams, the women's team as German runner-up from the first to the second Bundesliga, the men's team from the second Bundesliga to the major league. At that time the club had 164 members and 23 active teams.

In 1991 the club celebrated a comeback in the 1st Bundesliga, but could not avoid immediate relegation. In the 1993/94 season, he was promoted back to the 1st Bundesliga in the line-up of Geng Lihong, Kirsten Krüger , Nicole Kunstein, Dorota Bilska-Borowska and Sabine Wetzel. In 1996 the club announced the team again from the 1st BL, in 2002 the withdrawal from the 2nd Bundesliga to the Oberliga took place.

Today ( March 2007 ) the first teams play in the major league.

Other known active

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  • Heinrich Rousseau: 40 years of Kiel table tennis club Grün-Weiß , DTS magazine , 1966/1 page 30
  • AD: Quickly gaining respect , DTS magazine , 1981/25 page 30
  • Wulf Danker Kieler TTK facing an uncertain future - In search of a new identity , DTS magazine , 1985/4 page 27

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1964/8 issue West page 14 + 1966/1 page 30
  2. ↑ a b 75 years of the German Table Tennis Association - A game for life , ISBN 3-00-005890-7 , pages 146–148
  3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1960/8 West issue, page 11
  4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1977/11 issue south-west, page 16
  5. ↑ Magazine DTS , 1982/10 Issue South West regional Page 34
  6. ↑ DTS magazine , 1981/21 page 30
  7. ↑ 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 , pages 148-150
  8. ↑ DTS magazine , 1985/7 page 14
  9. ↑ DTS magazine , 1991/6 page 10
  10. ↑ DTS magazine , 1994/8 page 15 + page 19
  11. ↑ DTS magazine , 1996/6 page 32
  12. ↑ DTS magazine , 2002/6 page 19

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