Klaus Maier (table tennis player)

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Klaus Maier (born January 25, 1938 in Waldshut ; † January 15, 2017 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) was a German table tennis player and functionary. He took part in a European and a world championship.

Table tennis player

Maier first played in the club SV St. Blasien and moved to SSV Freiburg in the mid-1950s . He won the singles championship in South Baden four times.

Due to his studies, he moved to Bavaria in 1961 and joined TSV Milbertshofen . With his men's team, he qualified for the newly founded Bundesliga in 1966 . Further stations were Post SV Augsburg (1967/68) and SV Weißblau Munich (1968–1985), with whom he rose to the Bundesliga in 1968. At the Bavarian Championships he won the doubles title twice, in 1964 with Matthias Ostermayer and in 1966 with Conny Freundorfer . In addition, he became German university champion in 1966.

1959 Maier was nominated for the individual competitions of the world championship. Here he won the singles over William Hodge (Australia) and then lost to Frenchman Guy Amouretti . The doubles with Walter Hafner went one round against Harry O'Prey / Thomas Caffrey (Ireland) and then eliminated against Alberto Lo / Antonio Osorio (Portugal).

He also started in the individual competitions at the European Championship in 1962 . He did not win in singles (against Karl Wegrath (Austria)) or in doubles with Otmar Stock (against Bert Onnes / Frans Schoofs (Netherlands)).

In the 1983/84 season he won the German senior team championship with SV Weißblau München.

Because of health problems with the hip joint, he ended his active career in 1985.

Table tennis official

In 1988 Maier replaced Peter Kuhn as a cash auditor in the German Table Tennis Association DTTB . In 1990 he took over the office of Vice President of the DTTB as the successor to Norbert Wolf. He held this position until 1993, when he was offered the post of DTTB Vice President for Finance after Hubert Leypoldt left. In 2009 Maier no longer ran for this office and was replaced by his predecessor Hubert Leypoldt

Private

Maier studied business administration and law in Freiburg and Munich and later earned his living as a business graduate and lawyer. He was married and had two sons and a daughter. His son Sven played with TSV Milbertshofen in the 2nd Bundesliga in the late 1980s .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice in the Süddeutsche Zeitung of January 21, 2017 (accessed on January 22, 2017)
  2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1954/12 page 12
  3. ↑ Magazine DTS , 1957/13 Page 8
  4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1961/17 page 15
  5. ↑ 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 162
  6. ↑ Focus online from June 13, 2009, (accessed October 15, 2010)

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personal data
SURNAME Maier, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German table tennis player and official
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Waldshut
DATE OF DEATH 15th January 2017
Place of death Garmisch-Partenkirchen