The most important events of the table tennis season 1965/66 were the European championship in 1966 and the qualification for the newly created Bundesliga .
Major Leagues
The first of the four major leagues played for the German men's team championship. In contrast to previous years, the second did not get a chance, as they were fighting for promotion to the newly founded Bundesliga . The first wore a first and second leg in a semi-final according to the scheme north against south and west against southwest. The winners made it to the final.
In the women’s category, the first two in each upper division group and the first two in the south and south-west were divided into groups of four. In the mode everyone against everyone, the group winners were determined, who then contested the final. The division into groups of four was determined in advance: Group I = West I + South I + Southwest II + North II, Group II = rest.
Men's final tables
German team championship men
- Semifinals
VfL Osnabrück - SSV Reutlingen 05 9:3 9:3
SV Moltkeplatz Essen - 1. FC Saarbrücken 9:4 9:3
- Endgame
VfL Osnabrück - SV Moltkeplatz Essen 9:6
This made VfL Osnabrück German champions.
Promotion round to the men's Bundesliga
Group games of second, third and fourth in the table.
The following eight teams are qualified for the Bundesliga:
Ladies final tables
The first and second of the two southwest groups played for the southwest championship. Here triumphed ATSV Saarbrücken against Eintracht Frankfurt , TTC Olympic Koblenz and TTC Elz . Saarbrücken and Eintracht Frankfurt were thus qualified for participation in the German championships.
German team championship for women
The group matches took place in May and June 1966.
- Endgame
DTC Kaiserberg - Kiel TTK Green-White 7: 3
swell
- Tables from DTS 1966/9 p. 9
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↑ DTS 1966/1 p. 13
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↑ DTS 1966/1 p. 13
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↑ DTS 1965/24 p. 6
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↑ The final table of the women's upper league Southwest Group II was not published. In this table, the teams have played 13 to 18 games. - DTS 1966/7 p. 10
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↑ DTS 1966/9 p. 36
National German championship
The 34th national German championship took place on January 22nd and 23rd, 1966 in Osnabrück in the sports hall at Schloßpark. Eberhard Schöler became German champion for the fifth time in a row. Rosemarie Seidel won the individual competition somewhat surprisingly ahead of Agnes Simon , Edit Buchholz the women's doubles with Ingrid Kriegelstein and the mixed with Ernst Gomolla . In the men's doubles, Wilfried Lieck / Jürgen Reuland took the title.
Agnes Simon was eligible to play for a German championship for the first time after her immigration. She was considered a high favorite in the singles, but lost in the decisive set of the final despite a high lead because she became increasingly nervous.
Men's singles
The following participants were eliminated before the quarter-finals:
- 1st round: Abt, Czichowski, Dammers, Ulrich Dochermann, Werner Faden, Hans-Jürgen Freimuth, Gässler, Peter Geis, Horst Giehsel, Ulrich Hirsch, Horst Huwe, Peter Jacob, Heinz-Arno Jäger, Günter Kahrs, Peter von Klaudy , In short, Horst Langer , Leskowicz, Reinhard Michel, Hans Natterer, Nees, Herbert Neubauer, Hans-Jörg Offergeld , Holger Rostek, Schulz, Klaus Schütz, Josef Seiz , Elmar Stegmann , Steinbeck, Rüdiger Strelau, Horst Thein , Weber
- 2nd round: Siegfried Budzisz, Manfred Daum, Dieter Forster , Conny Freundorfer , Herbert Gomolla , Michael Heene, Bernt Jansen , Manfred Konieczka , Wolfgang Lux , Martin, Dieter Meyer, Bruno Paulus, Jürgen Reuland , Klaus Solka , Peter Stähle , Bernd Steidle
- 3rd round = round of 16: Erich Arndt , Wolf Berger , Friedrich Haase , Peter Hübner , Jürgen Langer, Wilfried Lieck , Klaus Maier , Karl-Heinz Russy
Ladies singles
The following participants were eliminated before the quarter-finals:
- Preliminary round: Adt, Oda Baucke , Marlies Berger , Betzwieser, Inge Deicke, Christa Federhardt , Gödecke, Götz, Hilde Grazikowske, Anita Haacke , Valerie Haering, Renate Hein, Monika Helms, Hedda Homann, Annegret Huwe, Ursula Isler, Ursula Kareseit, Koch , Monika Kräft, Rothfuss, Karla Schenk, Annegret Steffien, Marlene Wolf
- 1st round: Griti Bernhard, Glaser, Hanna Haering , Christiane Küchler, Brunhilde Kunz, Ilse Lantermann , Brigitte Scharmacher , Doris Schmidt, Jutta Schneider, Edith Steinke , Almuth Stöhr , Tschinkel, Inge Welter, Hannelore Wörtche, Waltraud Zehne, Ev-Kathlen Zemke
- 2nd round = round of 16: Inge Bauer, Monika Block , Hilde Gröber , Wiebke Hendriksen , Edith Lersow , Hannelore Männer , Erika Schmollinger , Jutta Teller
Men's doubles
Ladies doubles
Mixed
Detailed report: DTS magazine , 1966/3 pp. 1–7
National ranking tournament in Wiesloch
Schöler won the men. He only lost to Ernst Gomolla. The women's winner, Agnes Simon, only suffered one defeat. She was defeated by Hannelore Männer.
Ingrid Kriegelstein was absent due to illness. For she came Christel Lang used.
Detailed report: DTS 1965/24 pp. 2-4
Germany Cup
The Germany Cup the women won the team of the West German Table Tennis Association WTTV in the cast Agnes Simon , Rosemarie Seidel and Christel long . She defeated in Neckarsulm in the final of Württemberg ( Inge Harst , Hannelore Männer , Erika Schmollinger ) 5: 4. In the semi-finals, WTTV prevailed against Berlin and Württemberg against Schleswig-Holstein.
Report: DTS 1966/4 pp. 2 + 4 (final); DTS 1966/2 p. 2 (semifinals)
International matches
- February 5, 1966 in Uzwil: Switzerland - Germany B 4: 5. Germany competed with Günter Köcher , Peter Stähle and Bernd Steidle.
- February 1966: GDR - Hungary
- February 25, 1966 in Flensburg: Germany - Denmark
- March 1, 1966 in Bremen: Germany - ČSSR
- March 1966 in Osnabrück: Germany - Japan
- March 1966 in Wiesloch: Germany - Japan
- March 1966 in Augsburg: Germany - Japan
- March 1966 in Bad Homburg: Germany - Japan (unofficial comparison match)
- May 1966: International tournament in Luxembourg. Men's final Germany - Belgium 2: 3. Germany was represented by Martin Ness and Wilfried Lieck .
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↑ DTS 1966/5 p. 5
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↑ DTS 1966/5 p. 36
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↑ DTS 1966/5 p. 38
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↑ DTS 1966/6 p. 2
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↑ DTS 1966/7 pp. 2-3
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↑ DTS 1966/7 p. 4
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↑ DTS 1966/7 pp. 5-6
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↑ DTS 1966/7 p. 6
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↑ DTS 1966/10 p. 41
International championships
- October 1965; Holland , The Hague. Eberhard Schöler second round, Agnes Simon (behind Sárolta Lukacs , Hungary) second place, Christel Lang semi-finals, doubles Agnes Simon / Edit Buchholz winner, Rosemarie Seidel / Christel Lang second place, mixed Eberhard Schöler / Agnes Simon second place (not in the final due to injury started). Other German participants: Martin Ness
- October 1965: Hungary , Budapest. Eberhard Schöler and Martin Ness semi-finals, Agnes Simon and Edit Buchholz eighth finals, doubles Agnes Simon / Edit Buchholz second place. Other German participants: Peter Stähle , Jutta Krüger
- November / December 1965. Sweden , Stockholm. ( Eberhard Schöler , Hans Micheiloff , Günter Köcher , Karl-Heinz Scholl , Agnes Simon , Edit Buchholz , Christel Lang , Jutta Krüger )
- January 1966: Bulgaria , Sofia: The GDR men's team comes in second (behind ČSSR), the GDR youth team in third.
- February 1966: ČSSR , Prague. The women's team with Agnes Simon and Edit Buchholz lost to Hungary in the semi-finals. The men's team Eberhard Schöler and Erich Arndt were eliminated in the second round against the ČSSR. In the individual competitions, in which Jutta Krüger also competed, all Germans ended more or less early.
- 25-27 February 1966: Germany , Lübeck. Eberhard Schöler lost in the semi-finals of the men's singles against the eventual winner Jaroslav Staněk (ČSSR). With Jaroslav Kunz (ČSSR) Schöler reached the final in doubles. Diane Schöler also competed for England and lost in the semi-finals to the Romanian Maria Alexandru , in doubles she defeated the Germans Agnes Simon / Edit Buchholz with Mary Wright (England) in the final . Dieter Weitz / Edit Buchholz only lost in mixed in the semi-finals.
- 5th-6th March: Wales , Cardiff: Agnes Simon , Hannelore Männer , Eberhard Schöler , Günter Köcher
- 23-25 April: France , Paris: Erich Arndt lost to Vojislav Marković (Yugoslavia), Jürgen Reuland won against Paul Evrard (France), lost to János Faházi (Hungary). Monika Block won against Cognet (France) and lost against Irena Mikócziová (ČSSR). Erika Schmollinger lost to Christiane Mathieu (France). The double Arndt / Reuland lost in the third round against Istvan Korpa / Edvard Vecko (Yugoslavia). Schmollinger / block subject Marta Lužová / Irena Mikócziová (CSSR)
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↑ DTS 1965/20 pp. 1–2 + 1965/21 p. 6
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↑ DTS 1965/21 p. 18
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↑ DTS 1966/3 p. 23
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↑ DTS 1966/4 p. 3
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↑ DTS 1966/5 pp. 2-4
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↑ DTS 1966/4 p. 7
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↑ DTS 1966/9 p. 6
GDR individual championships
The 18th GDR championship took place on March 3rd and 4th, 1966 in Jena.
Source:
GDR team championship
In the major leagues, the men competed in two groups of five teams each. The women formed two groups of four. The ranking was played out in two rounds of everyone against everyone - each carried out on a weekend. The first two played in three rounds for the GDR team championship. The third and fourth places in the men ranked five to eight. The seventh and eighth then played against the winners of the lower classes relegation games for the upper division.
Masters were won by BSG Lokomotive Leipzig-Mitte for men and Berlin TSC for women .
Swell:
- Completion of the preliminary round - DTS 1965/24 p. 15
- 1. Final round: DTS 1966/3 p. 18
Others
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↑ DTS 1966/8 p. 3
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↑ DTS 1966/11 p. 40
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↑ DTS 1966/13 pp. 2 + 4
Individual evidence
- DTS = magazine DTS issue West 1965 + DTS 1966
