TTC Yellow-White Berlin

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The TTC Yellow-White Berlin is a former tennis and table tennis club from Berlin . He and his members played an important role in the early days of table tennis.

Occasionally this club is also listed as TTC Gelb-Weiß 1900 Berlin or Tennisclub von 1900 Gelb-Weiß Berlin .

On January 10, 1925, Gelb-Weiß Berlin carried out the first international German table tennis championships, where only the individual competitions for women and men were held. His club member Georg Lehmann undertook great activities for the development of table tennis. In November 1925, the German Table Tennis Association DTTB was founded in Berlin. In January 1926, on the initiative of Georg Lehmann, the world association ITTF was established in the club's clubhouse .

In the 1933/34 season, the women’s team from TTC Gelb-Weiß Berlin finished fourth at the German championships. At the same time, the men in the line-up, Rudi Schwager , Heinze, Grauert, Roderich Dietze , Götz Meschede and Werner Deutelmoser, became German champions.

The association disbanded around 1935.

Individual evidence

  1. 75 years of the Berliner Tischtennisverband eV - Chronicle 1927 - 2002, 2002, publisher: Berliner Tischtennisverband eV, Berlin, page 15

swell

  • 75 years of the German Table Tennis Association - A game for life , ISBN 3-00-005890-7 , pp. 15 + 146–148