Peter Fährmann

Peter Fährmann (born February 10, 1937 in Borna ) is a former German tennis player .

Alongside Horst Stahlberg , Werner Rautenberg and Konrad Zanger, Fährmann was one of the best tennis players in the GDR in the 1950s and 1960s.

In the GDR and after reunification in reunified Germany, Peter Fährmann collected 60 national championships that document his endurance.

From 1953 to 1955 Fährmann left his competitors behind at the indoor youth championships of the GDR. The left-hander was always an unpleasant opponent, especially for his doubles partner Werner Rautenberg, so that these two mostly fought for second place in the GDR rankings. Fährmann and Rautenberg harmonized very well in doubles and shone in the open air with seven title wins. They demonstrated their international strength at the Championships in Romania , where they defeated the pairings Günther Bosch / Alexandru Bardan in 1961 and even Ion Țiriac / Ilie Năstase in the semifinals .

For the top Czech player Pawel Korda , Fährmann became a feared opponent. In 1961 and 1962 the Czech had no chance in Zinnowitz against the popular ferryman. Have been at the first meeting has an outstanding achievement of boatman 1 because Korda in the same season: 0 and 6: The smooth 6: 6 2, Christian Kuhnke as well as the semi-finalists of Wimbledon , Michael Sangster had struck.

In addition to some participations in Egypt , his biggest tennis trip to the Games of the New Emerging Forces ( GANEFO ) was in Djakarta in 1963 . Fährmann managed at least in doubles with his Yugoslav partner Nikola Spear to move into the second round, where they were defeated by the eventual winners Toomas Leius / Lichatschow from the USSR with 3: 6 and 3: 6.

When Fährmann accepted the position of trainer at Ernst-Thälmann-Werk , Schwermaschinenbau, in Magdeburg in 1965, a golden age began for the Club Motor Mitte there. Only seven times in the period that followed, until the end of the GDR, the team cup did not go to Magdeburg. Ferryman was Motor Mitte's head coach until 1990. Spared from serious injuries, he got involved in the senior teams of Duisburg and Karlsruhe after the fall of the Wall . With Hamborn 07 he even booked seven European championships .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ This also includes youth and senior championships in singles, doubles, mixed and team competitions
2. ↑ P. Fährmann: In Djakarta silver for Hella Vahley. In: tennis. 8, 2, 1964, p. 2.

literature

• R. Streppelhoff: Tennis as a competitive sport in the GDR. In: Stadium . International magazine for the history of sport. 23, 2, 2007, pp. 243-264.