Kurt Entholt

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Kurt Entholt (born April 18, 1909 in Bremen ; † June 9, 1996 there ) was a German lawyer , table tennis player and functionary as well as a Bremen state politician ( BDV , FDP , FVP , DP ). He was a member of the Bremen citizenship .

He was the German team champion in 1933 and fifth in the team at the World Championships in 1931 and was also chairman of the Schleswig-Holstein table tennis association during this period . After the Second World War he was chairman of the Lower Saxony table tennis association from 1951 to 1952 and the sixth president of the German table tennis association DTTB from 1961 to 1965 . Politically, he was chairman of the Bremen Democratic People's Party from 1950 to 1951 , which then became part of the FDP Bremen , for which he temporarily sat between 1951 and 1955 as parliamentary group chairman in the Bremen citizenship. In 1956 he became regional chairman and deputy national chairman of the split-off Free People's Party , before it was absorbed into the German party in 1957 .

biography

Entholt attended high schools in Bremen and Kiel. He studied law at the University of Munich , the University of Berlin and the University of Kiel . He received his doctorate as Dr. jur. and completed a legal clerkship. From 1938 to 1940 he worked as a research assistant at the Kiel Chamber of Commerce . He worked as an assessor at a law firm in Kiel. From 1941 he was an employee of the trust agency Danzig-West Prussia and then managing director of the rescue company for companies participating in the war in the Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia . In 1940/41 and 1944/45 he served as a soldier in World War II . After 1945 he worked as a lawyer and notary in Bremen.

Entholt was married.

Table tennis

player

Entholt played for the Borussia Berlin club around 1930 . At the national German championships in 1931 and 1932 he came third in the individual. In 1933 he won the title at the first German team championship with the 1925 Kiel TTK, which he founded . He won the Gaume Championships with the teams from Northern Germany and Nordmark in 1933, 1934 and 1936.

At the 1930 World Cup he took part in the individual competitions. In 1931 he finished fifth with the German team. In Hamburg he won bronze in doubles with Erich Deisler at the International German Championships in 1935 .

In 1931 he played five international matches. In 1932 he was ranked third in the German ranking.

Table tennis official

Until 1933, Entholt was chairman of the table tennis association Schleswig-Holstein . After the Second World War , the lawyer Entholt took on responsibility in organizational areas. From 1950 to 1951 he was chairman of the Lower Saxony table tennis association . The man from Bremen gave up this post when Bremen split off on February 1, 1951 and founded its own association . After that, Entholt was chairman of the legal committee of the German table tennis association DTTB for several years .

In February 1958 he applied for the office of DTTB President. However, he was defeated by the opposing candidate Carl Adloff at the extraordinary general assembly in Neumünster with 44:59 votes . On July 8, 1961, he was elected the sixth president of the DTTB at the federal general assembly of the DTTB in Düsseldorf with 76:46 votes as the successor to Carl Adloff, who was no longer running. His unsuccessful opponent was Dieter Mauritz . In June 1964, Entholt was elected as an assessor in the Presidium of the German Sports Association DSB . He was the first table tennis functionary in the DSB Presidium.

During his tenure he campaigned for the foundation of the Bundesliga .

Towards the end of his tenure, there was massive criticism of his administration. This controversy led to a serious crisis in the DTTB. It started in early 1965 with the " Affair Ness ". Because of "uncomfortable and indiscipline" behavior, the board decided not to nominate Ness, the second best German player at the time, for the 1965 World Cup . The DTTB sports committee assessed this sanction as a player ban. Since the sports committee is responsible for player bans, it felt ignored, which is why four of the seven committee members resigned in February and March 1965 (Eberhard Rottkewitz, Rudi Gruber , Anton Luberichs, Willi Meyer). The resulting crisis in the DTTB was inconvenient, especially with regard to the upcoming World Cup. After the World Cup, the DTTB terminated the journalist Adolf Hüngsberg without notice because he had written a critical report on the events in the DTS specialist body, while the collaboration with the author Hans Wilhelm Gäb was ended.

Because of the massive criticism of his person, Entholt resigned from his seat on the ITTF Advisory Committee. Entholt stayed away from the federal general assembly from July 2-4, 1965 in Borkum. Dieter Mauritz was unanimously elected as his successor.

Politics, memberships

In 1937 a member of the NSDAP and in 1935 a member of the NS Rechtswahrerbund (NSRB) was removed . In 1948 and 1949 he was denazified as a follower in a lengthy process .

In 1946 he was one of the founders of the Bremen Democratic People's Party , from which the Bremen FDP emerged. From 1947 to 1950 he was vice chairman and from 1950 to 1951 chairman of the party. In 1956 he left the FDP and was a founding member of the Free People's Party (FVP), a conservative split from the FDP, which also included four FDP federal ministers. In the FVP he was state chairman and in 1957 deputy national chairman. In 1957 the FVP joined the German Party (DP).

Entholt was a member of the Bremen citizenship for around four years from 1951 to 1955 and was active in various deputations of the citizenship. 1951/52 he was deputy parliamentary group chairman and from January 1952 to October 1953 chairman of the FDP parliamentary group. His successor in this office was briefly Heinz-Georg Rehberg and from the beginning of 1954 Georg Borttscheller .

At times he was President of the German Animal Welfare Association and for many years chairman of the Bremen Citizens' Association Oberneuland-Rockwinkel.

Works

  • Kurt Entholt: Table tennis a people's sport, Kiel 1934, self-published
  • History of the district of Bremen- Oberneuland . Carl Schünemann, Bremen 1969; the book was based on the sheets on the history of the parish of Oberneuland compiled by Wilhelm Maßolle .

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
GER  World Championship  1931  Budapest  HUN   Agony  Agony  no participants 
GER  World Championship  1930  Berlin  FRG   last 64  last 16  no participants 

swell

  • 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 207
  • Jupp Schlaf : Kurt Entholt is "55" , DTS magazine , 1964/8 issue West page 14
  • Dr Entholt passed away . In: DTS magazine, 1996/7 page 24.
  • Norbert Korfmacher: Directory of members of the Bremen citizenship 1946 to 1996 (= local politics. Volume 1). LIT, Münster 1997, ISBN 3-8258-3212-0 .
  • Bremische Bürgerschaft (Hrsg.), Karl-Ludwig Sommer: The Nazi past of former members of the Bremische Bürgerschaft. Project study and scientific colloquium (= small writings of the Bremen State Archives. Issue 50). State Archive Bremen, Bremen 2014, ISBN 978-3-925729-72-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. Tennis & Golf magazine, sole official organ of the German Tennis Association EV, 1930/3 page 88
  2. Tischtennis Magazin - official organ of the TT-Verband Niedersachsen, 2005/6 page 8
  3. Magazine DTS , Issue West 1958/3 Page 1-2
  4. Magazine DTS , Issue West 1961/14 Page 1-2
  5. Magazine DTS , Issue West 1964/12 page 4
  6. magazine tischtennis 2010/1 regional north page 2
  7. ^ Report from the 1965 Federal General Assembly in Borkum - DTS magazine , 1965/13 West issue, pages 2–3
  8. Kurt Entholt Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 5, 2011)

DTTB crisis

  1. disregarding of Ness - magazine DTS, 1965/3 edition West Page 2
  2. ^ Resignation of Rottkewitz - DTS magazine, 1965/5 West issue, page 2
  3. ^ Resignation of Gruber, Luberichs and Meyer - DTS magazine, 1965/6 West issue, page 2
  4. Hans Korn: "Case Martin Ness" put in the right light - DTS magazine, 1965/8 West issue page 13
  5. ^ Statement by the DTTB board - DTS magazine, 1965/8 West issue, page 16
  6. The editor of the specialist magazine Deutscher Tischtennis Sport Adolf Hüngsberg is replaced by Ralf Schoppe, end of the cooperation with Gäb. - DTS magazine, 1965/10 issue West page 2 + 1965/11 page 2 + page 5–6 + page 15–18
  7. Heinz-Joachim Kermel: What must the future bring? , DTS magazine, 1965/12 West issue pages 15-16