White-Red-White Kleve

Weiß-Rot-Weiß Kleve is a German table tennis club in Kleve . His women's team was one of the best German teams in the 1970s and 1980s and now plays in the 2nd Bundesliga. Today (2009) 5 women, 5 men and 4 teams in the youth and school area are active in the club.

history

The association was founded on October 17, 1931, making it one of the oldest associations in West Germany. The founding chairman was Helmut Rütter. Rütter rebuilt the club after the Second World War .

Most successful were the women who rose to the league in 1961, the top division at the time. In 1972 they were one of the founding clubs of the Bundesliga . In 1976 and 1979 they won the ETTU Cup , in 1980 they became German team champions. In 1987 the club withdrew the team from the 1st Bundesliga to the 2nd BL. In the 1991/92 season Kleve won the championship in the 2nd BL, but renounced promotion. In 1997 the club voluntarily entered the regional league, in which the team with Brenda Vonk, Jana Timina, Maria Beltermann and Alexandra Swinnen came first in 2000/2001 and rose to the 2nd BL.

In the 2007/2008 season, the women won the championship in the regional league and thus returned to the 2nd Bundesliga, which they have been in since then. In the 2014/15 season she reached 7th place in the table.

The men's team reached the Oberliga in 1981 and the 2nd Bundesliga in 1993, from which it was withdrawn a year later.

Helmut Rütter (1931–1958), Josef "Seppl" Kück (1958–1992) (who was still chairman of the West German Table Tennis Association WTTV in 1968) and Dieter Stumpe (1992–2007) were in charge of the association; Sabine Bötcher ( * 1958) as the first chairman of the club.

Women's team successes

• 1972/73: Second in the German cup championship
• 1975/76: German runner-up
• 1975/76: Winner in the ETTU Nancy Evans Cup : Wiebke Hendriksen , Monika Kneip , Mieke Jenisch
• 1976/77: German runner-up
• 1977/78: German runner-up
• 1978/79: Winner in the ETTU Nancy Evans Cup : Wiebke Hendriksen , Monika Kneip , Roswitha Schmitz
• 1979/80: German championship: Wiebke Hendriksen , Monika Kneip-Stumpe , Roswitha Schmitz (today: Beyerinck), Jutta Trapp , Sabine Bötcher, Hannelore Hubers
• 1982/83: Second in the German cup championship

Web links

• Homepage of the association

credentials

• Winfried Stöckmann: A very special club , DTS magazine , 1981/24, pp. 11-12
• 75 years of the German Table Tennis Association - A game for life , ISBN 3-00-005890-7 , pp. 132, 148–152

1. ↑ Helmut Rütter (* March 4, 1906; † May 8, 1996) Honorary Chairman; DTS magazine , 1996/6 regional West p. 12
2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1987/6 p. 13 + 1988/8 p. 32
3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1992/6 p. 14
4. ↑ DTS magazine , 2001/4 regional West p. 6
5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1994/5 p. 12