Uschi Janke

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Erika Richter with Uschi Janke- von Puttkamer (right)

Uschi Janke (later Uschi von Puttkamer , later Uschi Geuenich ; born May 23, 1924 in Berlin ) is a former German table tennis player . She was three times German champion in doubles.

Sports career

Uschi Janke began playing table tennis at the Berlin club TSV Wittenau at the age of 10, after 1945 she joined Grün-Weiß Berlin before the TTC Blau-Gold Berlin became her new parent club in 1949 . In 1942 she took part in a German championship for the first time. She took 2nd place in Dresden in women's doubles together with Erika Richter . In 1943 and 1944, she won the German championship in women's doubles with the same partner. For the third time she won the title with Erika Richter in 1950, this time under the name of Puttkamer . Two years later, in 1952, it was enough for the runner-up again, this time alongside Anita Haacke . In this tournament she also had success in the individual: She only lost in the final against Ilse Donath and thus became German runner-up.

In 1952 she was appointed to the German national team and played against Denmark. There were no further appearances in the national team.

Between 1948 and 1953 Janke / von Puttkamer won the Berlin championship five times in singles and five times in doubles (three times with Anita Haacke, once with Annemarie Schulz , once with Erika Richter ). From the 1949/1950 season to the 1960/1961 season she played very successfully in the first women's team of the TTC Blau-Gold Berlin : ten times champion of the Berlin state league, five times north German champion, six times German runner-up.

Private

Janke's first husband Waldemar von Puttkamer (born June 21, 1919 in Fürstenwalde / Spree ; † October 1948 in Oranienburg ) died in Soviet captivity after the Second World War . With him she had a son Jörg Jesco (born August 6, 1945 in Leipzig ). Towards the end of the war she was evacuated to Leipzig. In 1955 she married her second husband Heinrich Alfons "Heinz" Geuenich (born October 14, 1928 in Düren ) and moved to Hermsdorf.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1948/16 p. 1
  2. ^ Association chronicle of the TTC Blau-Gold.
  3. ^ A b Rainer Stelle: The career of the table tennis club Blau-Gold Berlin , in: 20 BOTH , official organ of the Berlin table tennis association, No. 12/1981, pp. 10-14
  4. ↑ a b Axel Korsch and Friedrich-Karl Brauns: 75 years Berlin Table Tennis Association e, V, - Chronicle 1927-2002, Publisher: Berlin Table Tennis Association, Berlin 2002, p 26
  5. ↑ Axel Korsch and Friedrich-Karl Brauns: 75 Years of the Berlin Table Tennis Association - Chronicle 1927 - 2002, publisher: Berliner Tisch-Tennis Verband eV, Berlin 2002, p. 67
  6. ↑ Axel Korsch: Festschrift 1927 - 1977. A chronicle of the Berlin Table Tennis Association , Berlin 1977
  7. ↑ DTS magazine , 1955/15 p. 3
personal data
SURNAME Janke, Uschi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Puttkamer, Uschi von (after the 1st marriage); Geuenich, Uschi (after the 2nd marriage); Janke, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin