TTC Mörfelden
| Surname | TTC Mörfelden 1952 e. V. |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1952 |
| Members | 157 (June 2009) |
| Chairperson | Birgit Meffert |
| Homepage | www.ttc-moerfelden.de |
The TTC Mörfelden (official name TTC Mörfelden 1952 eV ) is a table tennis club from Mörfelden . The men's team has been German team champions four times and is one of the founding members of the Bundesliga . Long-time top players Erich Arndt and Dieter Michalek are closely associated with the club .
Currently (June 2009) three men's and three women's teams as well as a youth and student team are active.
history
The table tennis department within the SKV 1879 Mörfelden association was founded shortly after the Second World War by Otto Rohm, Theo Klonk and Edi Greifelt. The youth work under the direction of Kurt Egner and Otto Rohm showed numerous successes, including a. the youngsters were Southwest Champion in 1949/50.
In 1952, the table tennis division of the SKV Mörfelden split off and on September 26, 1952, the independent table tennis club TTC Mörfelden was founded. After several promotions, the men's team reached the league in 1953, at that time the top division in German table tennis.
The men's team became German champions for the first time in the 1954/55 season. In the final, Dieter Michalek , Erich Arndt , Harko von Noorden, Hermann Keim, Manfred Kehm and Erich Geiß defeated CTTF Bonn 9: 4. All players came from their own youth department. A year later the team defended the title in the line-up Erich Arndt, Dieter Michalek, Harko von Noorden, Hermann Keim, Erich Geiß and H. Weber with a 9: 4 victory over TTC Grün-Weiß Berlin . In 1956/57 the final against Eintracht Frankfurt ended in a draw 8: 8. Because of the better set ratio of 21:19, Mörfelden (Erich Arndt, Dieter Michalek, Hermann Keim, Harko von Norden, Hubert Nock, Erich Geiß) won the German championship for the third time in a row.
The fourth title was won by Erich Arndt, Dieter Michalek, Adolf Richardon, Hermann Keim, Hubert Nock and Horst Hiebsch in the 1959/60 season in front of TTV Metelen . A year later, the team finished second behind Borussia Düsseldorf due to the worse set ratio .
When the Bundesliga was founded in 1966 , Mörfelden was second in the Oberliga Südwest ( Erich Arndt , Dieter Michalek , Rudi Leskowics, Horst Hiebsch, Siegfried Budzisz, Wolfgang Hardt, Klonk, Best). In 1969 there was a descent, in 1971 the ascent again. 1974/75 Mörfelden reached third place in the table. With the descent in 1981, the club said goodbye to the Bundesliga. At that time the club had 21 active teams and more than 400 members.
Currently (June 2009) the men play in the Hessen League and the women in the District League.
Personalities
- Hermann Schmitt-Vockenhausen (1923–1979), politician
Web links
Sources and individual references
- Profile of the young master , DTS magazine , 1955/13 page 13
- Tisch-Tennis-Club Mörfelden eV , DTS magazine , 1966/18 edition Süd-West page 5–6
- 75 years of the German Table Tennis Association - A game for life , ISBN 3-00-005890-7 , pages 146–150
- tt-bundesliga.de History of the table tennis Bundesliga (accessed December 30, 2015)
- Table tennis archive Hans-Albert Meyer (PDF file; 144 kB)