Rudolf Gruber (table tennis player)

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Rudolf "Rudi" Gruber (born June 17, 1922 in Munich-Neuhausen ; † June 8, 2002 in Kirchseeon ) was a German table tennis functionary who held numerous honorary and management positions. For his services to table tennis he was awarded the ITTF Merit Award and the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class.

More active

In addition to handball and gymnastics, Rudolf Gruber was an active player in table tennis at PSV Munich , where he was one of the founding members of the table tennis department in 1938, of which he was head of department from 1945 to 1965. With his men's team he played in the Bavarian Oberliga, the top German division at the time. In the 1950s he was South German runner-up in doubles with Idel Pfeffer and second at the German university championships behind Dieter Mauritz . He later joined the SV Weißblau München and the DJK München-Ost, and from 1975 he was active at SC Baldham.

official

Immediately after the Second World War, he helped found the Bavarian table tennis association BTTV . In the course of time he took on voluntary functionary duties in various table tennis organizations. He shaped the further development of the German table tennis sport. He worked on the first betting gaming regulations - the DTTB sweepstakes order is based on the co-developed by Gruber Bavarian gaming regulations - as well as the introduction of the national ranking tournament , the German Cup Championships and the Bundesliga . According to Hans Wilhelm Gäb , Gruber was the "father of the Bundesliga". Since the early 1990s, he has campaigned for the rate to be reduced from 21 to 11 points, which came into force in 2001.

  • Activities at the world association ITTF
    • 1965–1967 Classification Committee
    • 1967–1973 Technical Committee
  • Activities at the German Table Tennis Association DTTB
    • 1953–1965 Sports Committee - At the 1959 World Cup in Dortmund, he was tournament director. In 1965 he resigned because of the " Affair Ness ".
    • 1965–1971 Sports warden on the board - At the 1969 World Cup in Munich, he was head of sports and technology.
    • 1971–1973 Vice President
    • 1973–1981 advisory board
    • 1981–1995 member of the board
    • 1995–2002 honorary member
  • Activities at the South German table tennis association STTV
    • 1962–1965 sports warden - he was one of the founding members of the STTV.
    • 1965–1983 representative of the Bavarian table tennis association BTTV on the STTV board
    • 1983–1992 first chairman
    • 1992–2002 honorary chairman
  • Activities at the Bavarian Table Tennis Association BTTV
    • 1947–1949 managing director
    • 1949–1973 sports manager and vice-president
    • 1973–1988 President
    • 1988–2002 honorary president
  • Activities at the Bavarian State Sports Association BLSV
    • 1973–1988 Association Committee, Technical Association Committee and Sports Advisory Board
    • 1975–1988 Deputy Chairman of the Sports Council
    • 1974–1992 Deputy Chairman of the State Performance Committee
    • 1974–1988 Structure Commission
    • 1978–1992 Board of Directors

Honors

In 1989 Rudolf Gruber was the first German to be awarded the ITTF Merit Award by the world table tennis association ITTF . In July 1991 he was the first German to receive the Dr Dieter Mauritz Memorial Prize (donated by Dieter Mauritz ) for outstanding services in responsible areas at the general assembly of the German Table Tennis Association (DTTB ) . On February 19, 1997, the then Bavarian Minister of Culture, Hans Zehetmair, presented him with the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .

Private

Rudolf Gruber graduated from the Wittelsbacher Gymnasium in Munich . In 1949 he graduated from the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich with a degree in communications engineering and later worked as a telecommunications engineer. In April 1948 he married his wife Lieselotte "Lilo" (1923–2009), who until 1982 was a woman manager in the Bavarian Table Tennis Association. From this marriage, twins were born in mid-1961.

Rudolf Gruber Memorial Prize

In order to preserve the memory of Gruber, the rules of honor of the Bavarian Table Tennis Association provide for the Rudolf Gruber Memorial Prize . This prize can be awarded

“To long-standing, well-deserved employees of the association, its branches and its members, or to public figures who have promoted and enriched the development of table tennis in Bavaria with trend-setting ideas and their implementation.

Criteria for the award are high services to the community of BTTV, to the development of the statutes and regulations, to the adaptation of the game operations to changed conditions and requirements, to an expansion of the competition system within Bavaria and to the outside world, to a comprehensive offer everyone who is interested in table tennis or whose interest in this sport can be aroused by it. "

- Honorary regulations of the BTTV in the version of July 4, 2010 (last amended on July 10, 2011), Section G4

Previous winners are Peter Kuhn (2003, President of BTTV), Gerhard Schnabel (2005) and Claus Wagner (2007, President of BTTV)

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literature

  • Wolfgang Römer: Perfection and professional management for BTTV: Rudolf Gruber , bayern tischtennis, official notices of the Bavarian Table Tennis Association , 1995/10 50 years of BTTV , pages 43–44
  • Rolf Hofmann: BTTV President Rudi Gruber turned 60 - a man who has done a lot for Bavaria and our sport, DTS magazine , 1982/12 regional page 17
  • Manfred Schäfer [ms]: Commitment over four decades , DTS magazine , 1987/6 page 20
  • Peter Kuhn: Laudation to Rudi Gruber [at the end of Gruber's presidency in the Bavarian Table Tennis Association], DTS magazine , 1988/9 regional south page 9
  • Dr Mauritz Memorial Prize awarded for the first time - DTS magazine , 1991/8 page 31
  • Cross of Merit for Gruber - DTS magazine , 1997/3 page 42
  • Rudi Gruber 75 years old - DTS magazine , 1997/7 page 14
  • Obituary Rudi Gruber - DTS magazine , 2002/7 page 7

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Rolf Hofmann: BTTV President Rudi Gruber turned 60 - a man who has done a lot for Bavaria and our sport, DTS magazine , 1982/12 regional page 17
  2. ^ Claus Wagner: Thank you, Rudi , DTS magazine , 1992/7 regional south, pages 2–3
  3. ↑ a b DTS magazine , 1991/8 page 31
  4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1991/1 page 21
  5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1997/3 page 42
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Römer: Perfection and professional management for BTTV: Rudolf Gruber , bayern table tennis , official communications of the Bavarian table tennis association , 1995/10 50 years of BTTV , pages 43–44
  7. ↑ DTS magazine , 1982/15 page 16
  8. ↑ Magazine DTS , 1961/14 Page 2
  9. ↑ Honorary Regulations of the BTTV (accessed on February 5, 2016; PDF; 81 kB)
  10. ↑ Bayern table tennis - special edition 2005 - 60 years BTTV, page 15
  11. ↑ BTTV Honors 2006 (accessed on November 21, 2011)
  12. ↑ Association Day 2007 of the BTTV (accessed on November 21, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Gruber, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gruber, Rudi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German table tennis official
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich-Neuhausen
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 2002
Place of death Kirchseeon