Lothar Franke

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Lothar Franke is a German table tennis player who took part in the 1962 European Championship .

Lothar Franke played for the TTC Grün-Weiß Berlin club , of which he is still an honorary member today (2012). With his men's team he was in 1955/56 and 1957/58 champions of the Oberliga Nord , the top German division at the time. In 1956 the team came second in the German team championship.

In 1962 he was nominated for the individual competitions of the European Championship in West Berlin. Here he was eliminated in all competitions in the first round: In singles against Robert Stevens (England), in doubles with Everson from Wales against Karl Wegrath / Hans Jell (Austria) and also in mixed with Anita Haacke against Lajos Antal / Monique Jaquet ( Switzerland).

He later played tennis for Grün-Weiß Berlin.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Honorary members of Grün-Weiß Berlin ( Memento from February 10, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ↑ Table tennis archive Hans-Albert Meyer (accessed on December 4, 2012; PDF; 58 kB)
  3. ↑ Club newspaper of the BTTC Grün-Weiß Berlin 2012/1 page 59 (accessed on December 4, 2012; PDF; 14.1 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Franke, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century