Walter Gründahl

Walter Gründahl (born May 19, 1949 in Schleswig ) is a former German table tennis player and functionary. He was President of the German Table Tennis Association DTTB .

Professional background

Gründahl completed a law degree in Göttingen and Kiel. In the mid-1970s he worked for a law firm. In 1989 he was admitted as a notary.

Table tennis player

Gründahl was a defender. He started his career at TSV Selk . From the late 1970s he played with the TTC Grünweiß Bad Hamm in the top pair cross in the Bundesliga . In 1981 he reached the final of the German Cup with this club. In the same year he moved to TTS Borsum in the second division. The other stations were TuS Vahr-Bremen (1982), MTV Itzehoe (1983/84), TSV Rudow (from 1984) and RC Protesia Hamburg (from 1994). In 1983 he won the North German Championships in singles and doubles.

official

From 1991 to 1993 Gründahl was chairman of the DTTB sports court. On November 1, 1992 he became Secretary General of the DTTB. He replaced Klaus Weber. In this role he worked on the drafting of the licensed player statute for table tennis players. In June 1994 he was unanimously elected to succeed Hans Wilhelm Gäb as the 9th DTTB President. In 1996 he resigned from this position while he was still at the European Championship. The timing of this resignation was criticized in professional circles because it pushed the successes of the German players into the background. His successor was Hans Giesecke . When he was no longer running because of previous disputes, Gründahl was re-elected President in September 1999. He held this office until June 2005, when he no longer stood as a candidate at the Federal General Assembly of the DTTB. As a reason he gave differences of opinion with the regional association Southwest and differences in the presidium .

At times he was also a member of the court of arbitration in the European Table Tennis Association ETTU .

Private

Gründahl is married.

literature

• Manfred Schillings: Change at the top of the General Secretariat - Walter Gründahl succeeds Klaus Weber , DTS magazine , 1992/9 p. 25
• Willi Baur: Gründahl's assumption of office , DTS magazine , 1994/7 p. 32
• Manfred Schillings: Interview: Walter Gründahl - Focus on finance , DTS magazine , 1994/7 pp. 36–37
• Manfred Schillings: Interview - Emotions are nothing negative , DTS magazine , 1998/4 p. 37
• Willi Baur: New DTTB Presidium - End of Mistrust , DTS magazine , 1999/10 pp. 29 + 32–33

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1981/12 p. 8.
2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1983/6 p. 34.
3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1984/7 p. 18.
4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1994/8 p. 24.
5. ↑ http://hameyer.eu/nttv/nttv-dh-5.pdf .
6. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2004/12 p. 38.