SV Moltkeplatz Essen
The SV Moltkeplatz Essen - often also called SVM Essen - is a table tennis club from Essen . The men's team was one of the strongest German teams in the 1960s and was German runner-up four times.
Career
The association was founded in 1923 at Moltkeplatz in Essen. In 1953 the table tennis division was re-established. With the help of several players from the TTF Rellinghausen, the men's team rose to the upper league in 1962 - at that time the highest German division - (Hans Neuhaus, Klaus Solka , Walter Dahlmann , Willy Schulte-Zweckel, Heinz Schuck).
In the 1964/65 season she became German runner-up for the first time when she drew 8-8 in the final against DJK TuSA 08 Düsseldorf , but lost due to the worse set ratio of 20:21. A year later, the team was again in the final and defeated VfL Osnabrück 6: 9. As champions of the Oberliga West, Essen was automatically qualified for the newly founded table tennis Bundesliga in 1966 . Here Wilfried Lieck , Klaus Solka , Walter Dahlmann , Hans Neuhaus, Klemens Tietmeyer , Helmut Hoiczyk, Herbert Seppi and Günter Angenendt took second place behind DJK TuSA 08 Düsseldorf in the first season. The fourth runner-up took place in 1968/69 behind Borussia Düsseldorf . In 1967/68 the team won the German Cup with the line-up of Wilfried Lieck, Klaus Solka and Walter Dahlmann.
In 1970, the team rose from the Bundesliga to the league. 1978/79 she played again in the 1st Bundesliga.
Hans Lorrek (* 1920; † 1990), who was one of the founders in 1953 and headed the department until June 1983, was closely linked to the success of the association.
Today (March 2020) the men's teams play in the lower classes. On July 1, 2020, SV Moltkeplatz Essen merged with the neighboring club DJK Franz Sales Haus.
Youth promotion
The association ran a successful youth development program. The youth team was West German team champions three times, namely in 1967, 1976 and 1979.
Known players
- Rainer Blüm (* 1962): 1979 West German youth champion singles and doubles
- Walter Dahlmann : multiple West German champion as a youth and among men
- Ulf Jungblut (* 1956): 1976 West German junior champion doubles
- Wilfried Lieck : Active in the association from 1962 to 1969
- Klaus Solka (* 1942): 1966 West German champion in doubles, participant in the 1969 World Cup
- Jörg Schirrmeister (* 1960): multiple West German youth champion
- Kurt Stadie (* 1956; † 1991): Participant German championship 1976
swell
- Winfried Stöckmann: Experienced, listened to - viewed critically. Journal DTS , 1976/11 pp. 68-69.
- Winfried Stöckmann: Hans Lorrek resigns from his last position - farewell to a great idealist. DTS magazine , 1983/8 regional West p. 2.
- 75 years of the German Table Tennis Association - a game for life. ISBN 3-00-005890-7 , pp. 146–151.
- Jan Lüke: Together we are less alone , tischtennis magazine , 2020/3 pp. 37–38