Paul Flußmann

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Paul Flußmann (born June 14, 1900 in Vienna , † February 1977 ) was an Austrian table tennis player . Before the Second World War, he was one of the strongest players in his country.

Career

Flußmann belonged to the SC Hakoah Vienna club . In 1927 and 1928 he won the National Championship of Austria . From 1926 to 1937 he took part in eight world championships . In 1926 , 1928 and 1929 he won silver with the Austrian team.

With Munio Pillinger he reached the semi-finals in doubles in 1926. In mixed he played with the Austrian Anastasia Flußmann. It is not known whether he is related to this one.

Flußmann was a member of the Maccabian Sports Association. He completed a degree, later was a private civil servant and married Stanjslawa Reiss in December 1925 (born June 2, 1892). At the beginning of the 1930s he ran a "table tennis salon". The Austrian Table Tennis Association rated this activity as a professional player, which is why it excluded Flußmann from the national ranking.

At the end of 1938 he emigrated to the USA.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
AUT  World Championship  1937  to bathe  AUT   last 32  no participants  no participants   
AUT  World Championship  1933  to bathe  AUT   last 16  Semifinals  Quarter finals  3
AUT  World Championship  1932  Prague  TCH   last 16  last 16  last 16  3
AUT  World Championship  1931  Budapest  HUN   last 32  last 16  no participants  6th 
AUT  World Championship  1930  Berlin  FRG   Quarter finals  Quarter finals  last 32  4th 
AUT  World Championship  1929  Budapest  HUN   last 16  Quarter finals  Quarter finals  2
AUT  World Championship  1928  Stockholm  SWE   Semifinals  Quarter finals  no participants  2
AUT  World Championship  1926  London  CLOSELY   last 32  Semifinals  last 16  2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Official information from the Vienna City and State Archives from May 11, 2012 - OTRS ticket
  2. ^ Die Österreichische Tischtennis Zeitung - Issue 45, March / April 2002 page 20
  3. ↑ The Table Tennis Collector 34, page 3 (PDF; 6.5 MB) (accessed October 2, 2010)
  4. ↑ The Table Tennis Collector 33, page 12 (PDF; 7.3 MB) (accessed October 2, 2010)
  5. ^ Badener Zeitung, July 15, 1933, page 6 (accessed December 15, 2015)
  6. ^ Paul Flußmann results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 6, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Flußmann, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 1977