Walter Lütgehetmann

Walter Lütgehetmann
Personal details
birthday	February 6, 1914
place of birth	Munich
date of death	April 26, 1967
Place of death	Frankfurt / Main
nationality	Germany
Active time	approx. 1930-1965
Achievements Unless otherwise stated, the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
Best GD: 0.927
(1958 DM pentathlon Nuremberg)
Maximum series (HS): 10
(1956 - three-volume championship Aachen)
World Championships:
1 × (1939)
Continental Championships:
4 × (1952/53/53/54)
Other tournaments:
23 × German individual champion
Societies)
• Billard Club Frankfurt 1912

Walter Lütgehetmann (born February 6, 1914 in Munich , † April 26, 1967 in Frankfurt / Main ) was a German billiard player who played for the Billiard Club Frankfurt 1912 .

Life

Born in Munich in 1914 and spent the first years of his life, his father ran a café on Zeppelinstrasse in der Au . The family moved first to Freiburg in 1918 , later to Berlin and finally to Frankfurt / Main, where they ran a billiard casino. At the age of 10 he picked up a cue for the first time, and at 15 he dedicated himself to this sport. Like his father and grandfather, Walter also learned the hotel trade. As a 19-year-old, he won the second class championship at his first tournament. When he later caught up with the “big ones”, he won his first title as German champion in 1935 (Cadre 45/2), 35 more were to follow, the last was added in November 1958. In 1942 he lost the middle finger of his left hand during the war, leaving only a small residue. But after tireless training he also learned how to use it, and it was helpful that he had learned to play with his left hand at an early age. So he was able to master apparently hopeless game situations without using the auxiliary queue for help. In order to rebuild his business in Frankfurt, he decided not to defend his World Cup title in Buenos Aires in 1954 after the war . In addition to billiards, Lütgehetmann was also quite successful as a gymnast, swimmer and judo fighter .

Career

In 1935 he received the first of his 23 German individual championship titles. Lütgehetmann became world champion in the pentathlon in 1939 . Despite the war-related amputation of a finger, he became German champion in Cadre 45/2 in 1948 . He won the Cadre 71/2 European Championship in 1952 and 1953 and the Cadre 47/2 European Championship in 1953 . Just a year later, he won his first European single-binding championship . In 1959 he was runner- up at the Cadre 71/2 World Championship in Berlin. In 1960 Lütgehetmann was German champion in cadre 71/2 and in 1965 German runner-up in three-cushion .

In 1953 he set a new German record at the German championship in Cadre 71/2 with a maximum series (HS) of 247. He set a total of 42 German and 7 European records.

death

He died in 1967 of a tumor disease .

successes

• World champion in pentathlon: Pentathlon World Cup 1939
• European champion Cadre 71/2: Cadre-71/2-EM 1952, 1953
• European Champion Cadre 47/2: Cadre-47/2-EM 1953
• European champion in cover : 1954
• German Champion (5 × cover, 4 × pentathlon, 3 × cadre 45/2, 5 × cadre 47/2, 6 × cadre 71/2)

Awards

In 1953, Federal President Theodor Heuss was the first billiard player to award him the Silver Laurel Leaf , the highest German award in sport, for his achievements in billiards.

Publications

• The recipe: game of billiards . Kiesewetter, Heidelberg-Rohrbach 1957. (45 pages)

Web links

Commons : Walter Lütgehetmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Photo by Walter Lütgehetmann on Cadre-47/2-EM, 1952

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} player statistics on Kozoom.com. Retrieved June 21, 2012
2. ^ Chronic des BC Frankfurt ( Memento from August 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Walter Lütgehetmann in the Munzinger archive , accessed on June 24, 2012 ( beginning of article freely accessible)
4. ^ History of the Mannheimer Billardfreunde 1947 eV Homepage. Retrieved June 21, 2012.