Werner Arndt (table tennis official)

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Werner Arndt (born December 6, 1884 in Berlin ; † May 1939 ) was a German lawyer and table tennis official . From 1929 to 1935 he was the second president of the German Table Tennis Association DTTB .

Life

He was the son of the type foundry owner Carl Arndt.

Werner Arndt received his doctorate and then worked as a judicial advisor, chamber judge (1927) and regional court director (from 1928) in the Prussian Ministry of Justice in Berlin. In 1929 he headed the Stinnes trial in which Hugo Hermann Stinnes was accused.

In the spring of 1929 he became President of the German Table Tennis Association (DTTB) as the successor to the first DTTB President Georg Lehmann , who had to resign from this post as a non-Aryan. In addition, from January to March 1935 he was the first chairman of the Berlin Table Tennis Association. In 1935 Arndt gave up these offices due to excessive workload. Heinrich Ehrenbrecht followed him .

During Arndt's tenure , the German national team gradually reached the European level .

Werner Arndt lived in Berlin-Wilmersdorf until his death .

He was a member of the National Socialist Lawyers' Association .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arndt, Werner . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1929, part 1, p. 64. “Wilmersdorf, Uhlandstrasse 89/90”.
  2. ^ German Table Tennis Association - 50 years young . Published by the German Table Tennis Association DTTB , 1975, page 38
  3. ↑ Hamburger Anzeiger, July 27, 1929 Online (accessed January 19, 2015)
  4. ↑ 75 years of the Berliner Tischtennisverband eV Chronicle 1927–2002. Berliner Tischtennisverband eV, Berlin 2002, page 9
  5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1966/1, page 8
  6. ↑ Manfred Schäfer: A game for life. 75 years of DTTB. (1925-2000) . Published by the German Table Tennis Association DTTB , Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-00-005890-7 , page 205
  7. ↑ Arndt, Werner . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1938, part 1, p. 50. “Wilmersdorf, Uhlandstrasse 89/90”.
personal data
SURNAME Arndt, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German table tennis official
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 1939