Otto Unshelm

Otto Unshelm
Personal details
birthday	March 12, 1891
place of birth	Solingen
date of death	20th September 1960
Place of death	Solingen
nationality	Germany
Active time	approx. 1922-1945
Achievements Unless otherwise stated, the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
Best ED: 0.833
DM Berlin 1932
Best GD: 0.628
DM Berlin 1941
Maximum series (HS): 9
DM Bremen 1935
World Championships:
1928
Other tournaments:
6 × German champions
Societies)
Solingen BC 1920.

Otto Unshelm (born March 12, 1891 in Solingen ; † September 20, 1960 ibid) was a German carom player and multiple German three- cushion champion .

Private

Unshelm was born in the Bergisches Land and grew up there. By profession he was a music teacher and teacher for violin playing. As early as the early 1930s, he ran a billiards salon in Remscheid, then later in Magdeburg and then in Solingen, his own salon. In addition, he was a founding member of the "Solingen BC" in 1920 .

Career

Unshelm learned to play billiards at a young age, as was still common in the Cadre at that time . Since 1922 he took part regularly in national and international tournaments. In the course of the 1920s, however, he began to switch to the three-cushion game and was the first and only German to take part in the 1928 three-cushion world championship in Reims , France , and immediately took third place. The following year he became German three-cushion champion for the first time, and between 1932 and 1935 he was a series winner of the tournament before August Tiedtke from Duisburg defeated him for the first time in 1940. Unshelm regained the title in 1941 before Tiedtke became the undisputed series winner. But Unshelm still took a few second and third placements. He also remained successful in the cadre.

Albert Poensgen wrote about him in an obituary :

“He achieved his greatest successes in the three-cushion game, in which he achieved great championship as a longball player. Six times he was champion in the three-cushion game, once even (1940) against Tiedtke, who had put an end to his dominance in this field in 1936. But even in Cadre 45/2, although the series game was not his best side, he was a tournament-proof, tough and feared opponent, who thanks to his skillful defensive game, combined with an extraordinary ability to pile up, sometimes achieved surprise victories, like myself, once Walter Joachim and the much stronger Jean Bruno also had to experience. "

- Albert Poensgen : Billard-Zeitung, 38th year, November 1960

successes

• Three-cushion world championship : 1928
• German three-cushion championship : 1930, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1941, 1931, 1936, 1937
• German championship in pentathlon: 1936
• German championship Cadre 45/2: 1925 1922, 1924, 1927, 1930
• German Championship Cadre 71/2: 1940
• German championship cover: 1939

Swell:

photos

gallery

Unshelm at the German championship

obituary

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 3 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 919 .
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Karlheinz Krienen: Billard-Zeitung . No. 5 . Munich-Gladbach November 1960, p. 5 .
3. ↑ Worried look into the future. solinger-tageblatt.de, archived from the original on January 23, 2018 ; Retrieved August 13, 2013 .  
4. ↑ player profile. Kozoom , accessed August 13, 2013 .