Martin Ness
Martin Ness (born February 18, 1942 in Augsburg ; † October 12, 1987 in Biburg near Diedorf ) was a successful German table tennis player in the 1960s . At the 1969 World Cup he reached the final with the men's team.
Career
As a teenager, Ness was runner-up at the Bavarian and German championships, and at the European Junior Championships he took third place in singles, doubles and mixed. With Post SV Augsburg he first played in the Oberliga , the top German division at the time, and from 1966 to 1971 in the 1st Bundesliga . In 1967 he won the German Cup with this club and then took part in the European Cup. In 1971 Ness switched to TTG Altena-Nachrodt , with whom he became German champion and German cup winner in 1973.
Ness was somewhat overshadowed by Eberhard Schöler , against whom he lost the final of the German championship in 1965 and 1967. In 1973, however, he was defeated by Wilfried Lieck and was the third time German runner-up in the individual. For this he was 4 times German champion in doubles.
Between 1960 and 1971 he played a total of 65 international matches for Germany. He was first used in November 1960 against Austria, where he won all three singles. In 1984 he ended his active career.
On June 6, 1969, the Federal President in Bonn presented him with the Silver Laurel Leaf for his outstanding sporting achievements .
When designing his table tennis racket , he was a real tinkerer. Long before John Hilton became European champion with a similar construction in Berne in 1980 , Ness used an anti-topspin rubber on his backhand , whose brittle, large-pored and inelastic sponge base he had exchanged for a highly elastic 2.5 mm thick offensive sponge.
The Ness affair
Following the European Championship in 1964 , the board of the German Table Tennis Association (DTTB) accused Martin Ness of "uncomfortable and indisciplinary" behavior. He reportedly returned the official DTTB suit late and in a messy condition. The DTTB board followed up this superficial accusation with further incidents. Because of these allegations, the DTTB did not nominate the then second-best German player, Ness, 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.
After replacing the board in Borkum in 1965, Ness was again nominated for the national team.
- ↑ disregarding of Ness - magazine DTS , 1965/3 edition West Page 2
- ^ Resignation of Rottkewitz - DTS magazine , 1965/5 West issue, page 2
- ^ Resignation of Gruber, Luberichs and Meyer - DTS magazine , 1965/6 West issue, page 2
- ↑ Hans Korn: "Case Martin Ness" put in the right light - DTS magazine , 1965/8 West issue page 13
- ^ Statement by the DTTB board - DTS magazine , 1965/8 West issue, page 16
- ↑ 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 18
- ↑ Heinz-Joachim Kermel: What must the future bring? , DTS magazine , 1965/12 West issue pages 15-16
- ↑ Ness again nominated for the national team. - DTS magazine , 1965/14 West issue page 5
Private
Ness lived in Neusäß near Augsburg. He had trained as a grocer. He was married to Heide Margarete since 1964, they have a son Alexander and a daughter Simone. After the end of his table tennis career, he was active in alpine mountaineering. On October 12, 1987, he was hit by a train on the Augsburg – Ulm railway line and fatally injured.
successes
- Participation in table tennis world championships
- Participation in European championships
- International championships
- 1960 Berlin: 4th place doubles (with Josef Seiz )
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National German championships
- 1959 in Frankfurt / Main: Youth Championship: 2nd place singles, 2nd place doubles (with Peter Lieb), 2nd place mixed (with Helga Scheithe)
- 1960 in Essen: 4th place single, 2nd place double (with Josef Seiz )
- 1961 in Wolfsburg: 2nd place singles, 1st place doubles (with Josef Seiz )
- 1962 in Freiburg: 4th place doubles (with Josef Seiz )
- 1963 in Lübeck: 4th place doubles (with Conny Freundorfer )
- 1964 in Siegen: 3rd place single, 2nd place double (with Conny Freundorfer ), 3rd place mixed (with Heide Dauphin )
- 1965 in Wiesloch: 2nd place single, 4th place double (with Conny Freundorfer )
- 1967 in Berlin: 2nd place singles, 1st place doubles (with Peter Stähle )
- 1968 in Böblingen: 2nd place doubles (with Peter Stähle )
- 1969 in Hagen: 3rd place individual
- 1970 in Frankfurt / Main: 1st place doubles (with Wilfried Lieck )
- 1971 in Hanover: 2nd place doubles (with Wilfried Lieck )
- 1972 in Karlsruhe: 1st place doubles (with Wilfried Lieck )
- 1973 in Munich: 2nd place singles, 1st place doubles (with Wilfried Lieck )
- 1974 in Saarbrücken: 4th place single, 2nd place double (with Wilfried Lieck )
- 1975 in Hanover: 4th place doubles (with Wilfried Lieck )
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National ranking tournaments
- 1964 in Mölln: 1st place
- 1966 in Wiesloch: 3rd place
- 1969 in Siegen: 4th place
- 1970 in Augsburg: 1st place
- 1971 in Duisburg: 4th place
- German team championships
- 1973 1st place with TTG Altena-Nachrodt
- German cup championships
- 1967 in Augsburg: 1st place with Post SV Augsburg
- 1973 in Velbert: 1st place with TTG Altena-Nachrodt
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Bavarian Championships
- 1958 Youth Championship: 2nd place individual
- 1961 Munich: 1st place singles, 1st place doubles (with Josef Seiz )
- 1963 Straubing: 1st place doubles (with Anton Breumair ), 1st place mixed (with Heide Dauphin )
- 1964 Nuremberg: 1st place singles, 1st place mixed (with Karla Schulz )
- 1965 Schwandorf: 1st place singles, 1st place doubles (with Anton Breumair ), 1st place mixed (with Heide Dauphin )
- 1966 Erlangen: 1st place individual
- 1967 Augsburg: 1st place doubles (with Peter Stähle )
- 1968 Rosenheim: 1st place singles, 1st place doubles (with Peter Stähle ), 1st place mixed (with Heidi Müller )
- 1969 Würzburg: 1st place singles, 1st place mixed (with Sieglinde Prell )
- 1970 Straubing: 1st place mixed (with Sieglinde Prell )
- 1971 Augsburg: 1st place singles, 1st place doubles (with Peter Stähle ), 1st place mixed (with Sieglinde Prell )
- 1972 Schwandorf: 1st place singles, 1st place doubles (with Bernd Deffner), 1st place mixed (with Sieglinde Prell )
- 1976 sheet: 1st place doubles (with Walter Pfister)
- 1977 Weiden: 1st place singles, 1st place doubles (with Walter Pfister)
- 1978 Rehau: 1st place individual
- 1979 Neustadt / Aisch: 1st place doubles (with Walter Pfister)
- Ranking positions
- 1964–1967: 2nd place in the German ranking list
- societies
- Post SV Augsburg (1953–1971)
- TTG Altena-Nachrodt (from 1971)
- TSV Milbertshofen
- TTC Altena
- SC Fürstenfeldbruck (until 1984)
Results from the ITTF database
Association | event | year | place | country | singles | Double | Mixed | team |
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FRG | European Championship | 1966 | London | CLOSELY | Quarter finals | |||
FRG | European Youth Championship (Juniors) | 1959 | Constanza | ROU | Semifinals | |||
FRG | World Championship | 1971 | Nagoya | JPN | last 128 | last 16 | last 64 | 6th |
FRG | World Championship | 1969 | Munich | FRG | last 64 | last 64 | last 64 | 2 |
FRG | World Championship | 1967 | Stockholm | SWE | last 128 | last 64 | last 128 | 4th |
FRG | World Championship | 1961 | Beijing | CHN | last 64 | last 16 | last 32 | 8th |
literature
- Manfred Schäfer: On the death of Martin Ness , DTS magazine , 1987/11 page 30
Individual evidence
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1960/22 issue West p. 3
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1984/9 p. 53
- ^ DTS magazine , 1964/5 West issue, back
- ↑ Martin Ness results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 13, 2011)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Ness, Martin |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German table tennis player |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 18, 1942 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | augsburg |
DATE OF DEATH | October 12, 1987 |
Place of death | Biburg (Diedorf) |