Kurt Braun

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Kurt Braun (born June 25, 1921 , † October 7, 1990 ) was a German table tennis player .

International success

The highlight of his career was his participation in the table tennis world championship in 1952 in Bombay . Here he finished 9th with the German team. Against the eventual world champion Hiroji Satoh from Japan, he was the only European to win a set.

In 1953 he beat the Yugoslav Vilim Harangozo (who later became national coach in Germany). He was appointed to the national team a total of 18 times.

At the International Championships of Austria in 1951 he reached the semi-finals in individual, in 1958 he won this championship.

National successes

In 1938 he was with the team of Schwarz-Weiß Wuppertal Niederrheinmeister. Together with Heinz Raack , he finished third in doubles at the German championships in 1943 , and he achieved the same placement with Helmuth Hoffmann in 1951 . In 1948 he was German runner-up in the singles in Göttingen, and two years later he won the Germany Cup with WTTV . He was West German Champion three times in a row (1953–1955).

Braun played in the clubs Schwarz-Weiß Wuppertal, Gold-Weiß Wuppertal (from August 1949), Borussia Düsseldorf (from 1952), ETuS Wanne-Eickel and ESV Wuppertal West (from 1955).

Private

Braun lived in Wuppertal ; he had been married since 1949. His brother Erwin, who died in World War II, was also a national player and played for Schwarz-Weiß Barmen and Wuppertaler SV. His sister Gerda Schlerth also appeared in the major league with the TSV Union Wuppertal club .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1949/15 page 2
  2. ↑ Magazine DTS , Issue South West 1952/17 page 4
  3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1955/17 page 4
  4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1949/14 page 16
  5. ↑ magazine DTS , 1967/7 page 13 page 18 1981/22 +
  6. ↑ DTS magazine , 1954/23 page 4
personal data
SURNAME Brown, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1921
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 1990