Klemens Tietmeyer

Klemens Tietmeyer (born August 9, 1937 in Metelen , † March 17, 1993 in Nordhorn ) was a German table tennis player . In the 1950s he achieved his greatest successes, in 1959 he took part in the World Cup.

Occasionally his first name is also incorrectly spelled as Clemens .

Career

At the age of nine, Tietmeyer joined the table tennis club TTV Metelen . In his youth he won several titles. So he was several times West German team champion with the youth. He won silver twice at the German championships in boys' doubles, in 1954 with H. Heinen and in 1955 with Horst Terbeck.

A few years later he was integrated into the men's team at TTV Metelen. This played in the Oberliga, the top division in Germany at the time. With this club he won the German team cup in 1957/58 and 1961/62 and the German team championship in Berlin in 1958/59. In 1957 he took 6th place at the top-12 national ranking tournament in Bottrop, and in 1960 he was German university champion in the individual.

Because of his success, the table tennis association DTTB nominated Tietmeyer for the individual competitions of the 1959 World Cup in Dortmund.

In 1966 Tietmeyer left TTV Metelen and joined the club SV Moltkeplatz Essen , with whom he was German runner- up in the Bundesliga in 1967 and third in the Bundesliga in 1968. In 1968 he moved to SV Eintracht Nordhorn . There he was the top player of the association league team (4th division) for two seasons before he interrupted his career in the spring of 1970 due to injury for eight years, which he then continued from 1978 until his death in 1993 at SV Eintracht Nordhorn. Tietmeyer was considered to be a very active and active table tennis athlete. His playing style was unconventional; In his heyday he played an unconditional forehand attack with his pimple rubber bat, and his very good footwork and physical condition helped him.

Private

Klemens Tietmeyer was the brother of the former Bundesbank President Hans Tietmeyer . Tietmeyer was a teacher by profession; first from 1968 at the Pestalozzischule Nordhorn, then from 1969 as vice-principal at the Elisabethschule Nordhorn and from 1980 until his death as principal of the secondary school branch of the Elisabethschule Nordhorn. In Nordhorn he held several honorary positions in the political and church sectors.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
FRG	World Championship	1959	Dortmund	FRG	last 256	last 32	last 128

swell

• (AJ) Andreas Joost: Klemens Tietmeier [sic!] † , DTS magazine , 1993/4 regional West p. 15
• 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 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1996/3 p. 30
2. ^ ITTF statistics (accessed on September 16, 2011)