Siegfried Spielmann

Siegfried Spielmann
Personal details
birthday	October 7, 1921
place of birth	Dusseldorf
date of death	April 21, 1999
Place of death	Dusseldorf
nationality	Germany
Nickname (s)	"The thick"
Achievements Unless otherwise stated, the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
Best ED: 500.00 (Free game)
Best GD: 187.50 (free game)
Maximum series (HS): 1984 (free game)
Other tournaments:
23 × German champion
Societies)
Düsseldorf billiard friends 1954

Siegfried Spielmann (born October 7, 1921 in Düsseldorf , † April 21, 1999 ibid) was a German carom player in the disciplines of cadre , free game and three cushion . He was vice world champion and multiple German champion.

Career

He played his first German championship in April 1947 in Cadre 45/2 in Hamburg. As a 25-year-old young player, he immediately took a very good fourth place behind the former world champions August Tiedtke and Walter Lütgehetmann who took first and second place. Here established opponents recognized his great talent. After finishing second in the following year behind Lütgehetmann, he was able to celebrate his first championship title on his third participation in October 1949 in Cologne, which he followed up with number two in Rheydt the next year.

Due to the consequences of the Second World War , German players were not yet allowed to participate in international championships. So it was not until December 1952 that he was allowed to take part in his first European championship in Marseille. At the European Championships in the free game, he finished 7th. The free game should be his most successful international discipline. He won a total of five medals.

Siegfried Spielmann played his first world championship in Vigo, Spain. Here he immediately took 4th place in the free game. He won his two World Championship medals in January 1962 in Düsseldorf in cadre 47/2 and in March 1966 in Duisburg in cadre 71/2.

For this he set many German records. Since the prolonged top series is no longer counted today, he still holds the series record in the free game with 1984 points. In the 1950s and early 1960s, it improved almost all the records of its predecessors. Only when Dieter Müller from Berlin and Klaus Hose from Bochum dominated the German billiards scene were his records broken. His three-cushion series record at the German Championships of 15 points lasted 62 years. Spielmann had set it up in Nuremberg in 1954, it was only broken at the DM 2016 in Bad Windungen by Ronny Lindemann with 16 points.

He also made a name for himself as a pool coach. Among other things, he trained the later European champion Thomas Wildförster . He also ran a billiard center in Düsseldorf in which the Düsseldorf billiard club, Düsseldorfer Bfr , was very successful in the sixties and seventies . 54 had his home. The club won the Coupe d'Europe in the 1959/60 season , which was to remain its only international title, and was five times Bundesliga champions between 1970 and 1978 . Siegfried Spielmann was a player in all titles.

On December 20, 1971, shortly after his 50th birthday, Siegfried Spielmann received the silver bay leaf. This is the highest award in the Federal Republic of Germany for athletes. In 1988 he became an honorary member of the German Billiard Association. The following year he became an honorary member of the European Billiards Association, the Confédération Européenne de Billard (CEB). Spielmann was very popular in billiard circles because of his Rhenish humor. His nickname was The Fat One . In 1999 Siegfried Spielmann died at the age of 78.

successes

• German three-cushion championship : 1967
• German champion Cadre 47/2 (45/2): 1949, 1950, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971
• German champion Cadre 47/1: 1968, 1969
• German champion Cadre 71/2: 1960, 1965, 1966, 1969
• German champion pentathlon: 1965, 1969
• German champion free game: 1957, 1959, 1962, 1964
• World Championship Cadre 47/2 World Championship : 1962
• World Championship Cadre 71/2 World Championship : 1966
• Cadre 47/2 European Championship : 1959
• Cadre 71/2 European Championship : 1965 1959
• European Free Match Championships : 1955, 1956 1959, 1961, 1970

• European pentathlon championships for national teams : 1971, 1975 1976
• Coupe d'Europe : 1960

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Player profile on Kozoom.com. Retrieved August 5, 2013.