Walter Weichbrodt
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| birthday | September 18, 1929 |
| place of birth | Duisburg-Rheinhausen |
| date of death | 7th August 2013 |
| Place of death | Moers |
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| Active time | 1957-2002 |
| Achievements Unless otherwise stated, the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline. |
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| 2 × German champions (tournament billiards) | |
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Walter Weichbrodt (born September 18, 1929 in Duisburg-Rheinhausen , † August 7, 2013 in Moers ) was a German carom player and with the Homberger BC 1957 two-time German team champion at tournament billiards.
Life
Private
Walter Weichbrodt initially played football like his father of the same name, who even made it into the national team. But the enthusiasm for playing billiards quickly outweighed it, which he only did as an amateur. Professionally, he worked in the human resources department at Krupp's steelworks in Duisburg-Rheinhausen until he moved to the Uerdingen wagon factory as HR manager in 1963 , which was later converted to DUEWAG AG . He developed into an IT expert and introduced the first IT systems to the company. A particular concern of his was to integrate the numerous foreign immigrants during this time and to increase their well-being. In September 1992, at the age of 63, he went into well-deserved retirement.
He was married to his wife Anneliese for 60 years and they had two children together. He died just a few weeks after his wife's death on August 7, 2013 at the age of 83.
Sports career
At the age of 28, he founded the Homberger Billard Club 1957 with 11 other billiards players in August 1957. Walter Weichbrodt led the club to achieve the German championship at tournament billiards, free game , in the 1961/62 seasons (in Wattenscheid with Kajan, Jankowiak, Koch, Karrenberg, Weichbrodt) and 1963/64 (in Essen-Steele with Kajan, Koch, Karrenberg, Weichbrodt) and for the runner-up in Cadre 35/2 in the 1962/63 season (in Braunschweig with Kajan, Koch, Jankowiak, Karrenberg, Weichbrodt, Pregel). Walter Weichbrodt played in the D-player classification. The opponents in these years included well-known billiard personalities in the A-player classification such as Klaus Hose (Bochum), Ernst Rudolph (Cologne), Dieter Müller (Berlin), August Tiedtke (Saarbrücken), Siegfried Spielmann (Düsseldorf) and Walter Lütgehetmann (Frankfurt). During this time the Homberger BC 1957 belonged to the best known and best clubs in the Federal Republic. In addition to Walter Weichbrodt, the team consisted of the regular players Günter Jankowiak, Dietmar Koch, Harald Karrenberg and Ewald Kajan. In 1963 the German championship in one binding (special class) could be organized by Homberger BC in the club restaurant Toni Puk. From 1960 to 1997 the club played in the Lower Rhine regional league, then in the regional leagues of the Duisburg billiards district. In the statistics of the DBU, German championships on the small table (tournament billiards) are run as national championships. In recognition of his services to the German billiards sport, Walter Weichbrodt received the silver pin of honor from the German Billiards Association in March 1986.
In the history of the club there have been many changes of the club premises due to the business of the club host. The restaurants were in 1957 "Hansa Eck" (Springer) , 1959 "Zur Stadt Duisburg" (Puk, Vengels) , 1967 "Haus Küppers" (Lagodka) and "Zum Eicheneck" (Meerkamp) , "Haus Gründmann" (de Wit, Jacobi) ) , 1987 "Haus Winsberg" , 1990 "Zum Iron" , 1991 "Haus Rossmüller" (Langenbrink) , 1991 "Zum Deutschen Eck" (Ehrler) , in 1998 Walter Weichbrodt moved to the Moers billiards club "BC Grün-Weiß-Asberg". He played there until 2002, when he ended his career at the age of 73. The Homberger Billard Club founded by Walter Weichbrodt was dissolved shortly after its 50th anniversary in 2008 by the only remaining founding member and CEO, Josef Hilger.
Walter Weichbrodt in the early 1960s
Master team from left Ewald Kajan, Günter Jankowiak, Dietmar Koch, Harald Karrenberg, Walter Weichbrodt
Walter Weichbrodt at the end of the 1990s
Certificate of Honor for the Badge of Honor in Silver 1986
Medals for the championship in 1962 and 1963
Poster for the German championship 1963 in Braunschweig
Notice of dissolution of Homberger BC with a short chronicle
Cover page of the brochure for the German championship in Gelsenkirchen in 1962
Cover of the brochure for the German championship in Homberg in 1963
Page 11 of the brochure for the 1963 German championship in Homberg, references to the previous year's successes
Billard Zeitung from 1962 for the German team championship free game in Wattenscheid
Billard Zeitung from 1963 for the team championship in Cadre 35/2 in Braunschweig
Billard Zeitung from 1964 on the German team championship in Essen-Steele
successes
- German championships (tournament billiards) (free game - team): Winner 1962, 1964.
- German championships (tournament billiards) (Cadre 35/2 - team): Second in 1963.
Individual evidence
- ^ German team championship free game 1962 in Wattenscheid . In: Billard Zeitung. 1962, pp. 17-18.
- ^ German team championship free game 1964 in Essen Steele . In: Billard Zeitung. 1964, pp. 16-17.
- ^ German team championship Cadre 35/2 1963 in Braunschweig . In: Billard Zeitung. 1963, pp. 9-11.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Weichbrodt, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German billiard player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 18, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Duisburg-Rheinhausen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 7th August 2013 |
| Place of death | Moers |