Roderich Dietze

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Eduard Roderich Dietze (born March 1, 1909 in Glasgow ; † May 25, 1960 in Bühlertal ) was a German sports reporter and table tennis player .

Roderich Dietze with his wife Edith Dietze ter Meer, 1939

Life

journalist

Dietze was the son of a foreign merchant Roderich AE Dietze and Elisabeth Smith who worked in Scotland. In 1914 the family moved to Germany. From 1932 Dietze worked as a radio reporter. Before the Second World War , he commented on events in the fields of equestrian sports, motor sports, tennis and table tennis. Under the direction of Bernhard Ernst he worked in a team with Paul Laven and Rolf Wernicke . At the 1936 Summer Olympics , the English radio hired him as chief spokesman.

After the Second World War he took part in the technical development of television. Most recently he was chief reporter for Südwestfunk .

Table tennis

Dietze actively played table tennis for the TTC Gelb-Weiß Berlin club , with whom he became German team champion in 1933/34. At the international German championships in 1936/37 he reached fourth place in doubles with Rudi Schwager . Several times he was used in the national team. After the Second World War he took on duties as a functionary. So he was sports manager in the table tennis association Lower Saxony and from 1950 to 1951 press officer of the German table tennis association DTTB . He designed the Dietze couple cross system , which was named after him. In the early 1950s he was with the men's team of SC Baden-Baden Südbadischer Cup champion.

Private

Dietze had been married to the art historian and fashion journalist Edith ter Meer (1904–1993), the daughter of the famous taxidermist Herman H. ter Meer , since 1939 . The marriage remained childless.

Works

  • Eduard Roderich Dietze and Dr. Karl Wagenführ: The broadcasting system . In: Jacob Nagel and Hans Rackow (eds.), Paul Peglow, Karl Dau, Emil Hundertmark, Hans Werner (arr.): Post and telecommunications . Walter De Gruyter, Berlin 1942.

literature

  • Klaus Rhenius: Roderich Dietze † , DTS magazine , 1960/11 p. 2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Schwipps, Gerhart Goebel: Word battle in the ether. History of shortwave broadcasting in Germany (1939–1945) . Haude & Spener, Berlin 1971, ISBN 3-7759-0147-7 , p. 76.
  2. ↑ Simon Garfield: We are at war. The remarkable diaries of five ordinary people in extraordinary times . Ebury Press, London 2005, ISBN 0-091-89695-9 , p. 93.
  3. ↑ 75 years of the German Table Tennis Association - A game for life , ISBN 3-00-005890-7 , pp. 146–148.
  4. ↑ 75 years of the German Table Tennis Association - A game for life , ISBN 3-00-005890-7 , p. 135.
  5. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2012/3 regional south p. 8
  6. ↑ Hans Völkel: Herman H. ter Meer. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2004, ISBN 9783937209500 , p. 19. Restricted preview in the Google book search
personal data
SURNAME Dietze, Roderich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dietze, Eduard Roderich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports reporter and table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1960
Place of death Bühlertal