TTFC Burgwedel

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The TTFC Burgwedel is a table tennis club from Burgwedel . He became known nationwide for his women's team, which played in the first division from 2000 to 2002 .

Club history

The TTFC Burgwedel emerged from the former FC Burgwedel and played table tennis with its first men's team in the men's association class. Player names like Volker Sbresny, Hans-Joerg Prothmann, Erich Kinitz, Dr. Dieter Günzel, Martin Fastabend, Jürgen "Mucki" Seehaus and Wolf-Rüdiger Kienast were well-known in the Hanover TT scene. However, at that time only the first men's team had absolute priority training and game play, which included the founders of the department / club of FC Burgwedel. Parallel training by other club members or even youth practice hours were often placed at the back in a ranking, perhaps also because of insufficient hall capacity.

This changed at FC Burgwedel only with the arrival of a more determined, experienced player and department chairman from a neighboring club. At this point in time, the first men's team in the district league was playing on a relegation zone due to the lack of young talent and ultimately took it out of necessity. Under the direction of manager Hans-Jürgen Junker, who ultimately headed the club for over 14 years as a member of the board (sports supervisor, chairman and manager) and constantly ensured reinforcements, a change took place for the women's district top division team, which then continued in a row in 1994 reached the 2nd Bundesliga North. During the almost five years of the TTFC's 2. Bundesliga time, the active chairman and manager Junker tried everything to achieve promotion to the 1. Bundesliga. He narrowly failed four times. The strongest players in Lower Saxony's TT scene did not manage to make it to the top German league.

But also the youth teams, girls and boys, as well as the popular sports teams delivered top positions in the top divisions of the TTVN and NTTV for several years. A healthy mixture of width and top was the aim for the TTFC board to have fun in table tennis.

So the 1st men's team climbed class by class and ultimately played in the upper league of the North German Table Tennis Association NTTV, and at the end of the 1999/2000 season the 1st women's team was then again made up with Yan Su, Monika Klejnova, Marketa Myskova, Nina Tschimpke master and was promoted to the 1st table tennis Bundesliga .

The town of Burgwedel faced this new challenge at the beginning of the season with a complete conversion of a gymnasium hall, as did the entire TTFC board with its members. It soon became clear in the first half of the premier class that some board members were not up to the new tasks. Hans-Jürgen Junker suddenly found himself almost alone in the important, but also expensive, performance area, at least within the club, and, born out of necessity, remembered traditional virtues.

With the European champion and long-time German national player Jing Tian-Zörner , the TTFC actually achieved a narrow non-relegation place in this league. In the following year, the manager Hans-Jürgen Junker changed the athletically successful TTFC team again, knowing full well the performance difference between the 1st and 2nd league, namely with the reigning German young national player Jessica Göbel , with the number 1 seeded Chinese Lin Xu, With the Russian national player Irina Kotikhina and the Romanian Mihaela Georgescu the complete team, formed a team with great cohesion and achieved with the youngest and most inexpensive team in the league at half-time 2000/2001 a place in the Champions League that was extremely surprising for the German Table Tennis Federation League. The participation for the TTFC Burgwedel in European championship competitions was within reach.

In the at that time unusual but necessary annual general meeting and on the basis of a professional and correct cash report personally commissioned by Junker with the disclosure of achieving at least 70,000.00 DM annually through sponsorship, the long-time TTFC maker was nevertheless democratically voted out alleged concern of the club's financial risk and, on the other hand, due to insufficient hall capacity for regular training on weekends. Because the preparations of the Bundesliga, regional league and upper league were mostly perceived as annoying by internal mass sport, because on such days a maximum of four tables could be set in a training hall that was too small.

At this time (December 19, 2000) the club had about 16,000.00 DM in short-term liabilities, but this was due to a guaranteed payment (end of January / beginning of February 2001) from a Burgwedeler Sports Foundation (Wittenberg / Braukmann Foundation) with almost 20,000.00 DM were covered. In addition, the many other ongoing sponsorship contracts outlined fulfilled the budget at least until the end of the season (June 30, 2001).

The TTFC Burgwedel had participated in 24 different TT game classes and with 7 trainers, in the league games of the various sports associations, starting with school and youth teams, district league, several district classes, upper league, regional league and Bundesliga, and was at that time one of the few big TT Clubs in Germany.

Hans-Jürgen Junker finally left the association.

The team then competed in the regional league under the name TTK Großburgwedel and played in the 2nd Bundesliga in the 2005/06, 2013/14 and since 2017/18 seasons. Today the women play in the 2nd Bundesliga.

literature

  • WS (Winfried Stöckmann): One year waiting loop , DTS magazine , 1994/10 p. 26
  • Axel Emmert: With local heroes to the top , DTS magazine , 1996/9 p. 21
  • mast: withdrawal on installments , table tennis magazine , 2002/1 p. 28
  • Marco Steinbrenner: Only old tables , tischtennis magazine , 2002/2 p. 30

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DTS magazine , 2002/6 p. 19
  2. ↑ Bundesliga magazine 2005/06

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