Astrid Krebsbach

Astrid Melanie Beatrix Mary Krebsbach - Astrid Hobohm later, after Astrid Horn ( born February 9, 1913 in Vienna, † September 17, 1995 in Quedlinburg ) was one of Germany's most successful table tennis players. They also had in Saxony-Anhalt still successes in tennis.

Astrid Krebsbach was left-handed. She had a strong backhand attack and could also sure fend off.

Between 1931 and 1953, she won 9 World Championships medals, including two silver medals in singles. At the same time she was five times German champion in the whole of Germany and four times GDR champion. In 1949 she took both the overall German Championship as well as the first East German championship title. In 1934 she became World Champion with the German women's team.

They played for the clubs Tennis Borussia Berlin ( 1930), BSG structure Boerde Magdeburg, BSG Osram Berlin and Quedlinburg engine. From 1932 to 1937 she was awarded first place in the German ranking in 1934 it was set in the world rankings at No. 1.

Career

Astrid Krebsbach was born in 1913 in Vienna. Her mother Maria Johanna born Weitz Auer was Austrian, but since her father Otto Krebsbach " German Reich " was, Astrid had the German nationality. Astrid got three younger siblings, namely Eva Maria Elisabeth Johanna (13 January 1916), Senta Maria Anna Margarete (12 April 1917) and Vera Martina (17 March 1924).

Astrid first attended a school in Bitterfeld and after a move in 1925 to Wittenberg Melanchthon Gymnasium. Then she trained at a higher commercial school for foreign correspondent.

Astrid's family was active in sports, both parents played tennis, her father additionally table tennis. Both sports were tended, in the summer they played at that time often tennis, in the winter (for lack of indoor tennis courts ), however, table tennis.

Very early won Astrid great sporting successes especially in table tennis, from cities across the country Championships and German Championships up to the World Championships.

The sisters Eva and Senta played very successful table tennis, though not internationally. So they won 1936/37 with BSG Osram Berlin, the German team championship of the ladies.

In May 1931, the family moved to Berlin. 1933 Astrid got her first job at the water knife -Vertriebs GmbH in Berlin.

A year later, she won her biggest successes: She won at the World Table Tennis Championships in Paris the silver medal in singles, with the women's team was world champion. They beat surprisingly the then five -time world champion Maria Mednyanszky as well as the reigning world champion Anna Sipos. Had she not won the team competition against the Czech Marie Kettnerová, so they had to close defeat against the same opponent in the singles final.

In 1936, she converted to Evangelical-Lutheran faith. In March this year she won again the silver medal at the World Championships in Prague, and on April 18 she married Dr. Ernst Friedemann Hobohm and moved to Quedlinburg to. After the birth of her daughter Karin Elisabeth (31 August 1937), it reduced several years their performance sporting activities. On February 21, 1940 Son of Peter -Uwe was born. Then she stepped back to the table tennis sport, and in 1941 she reappeared regularly in the winners' list at the German championships.

In January 1949, their marriage ended in divorce. On September 14, 1949, she married for the second time, the table tennis player Rolf Horn of Quedlinburg.

Most recently, she played in the team of motor Quedlinburg, where she finished her playing career after the 1954/55 season.

Honors

Success in table tennis

• World Championships In Berlin in 1930: quarter-final single, double quarter-finals
• 1931 in Budapest: Quarterfinals single, quarter-finals doubles quarter-finals Mixed
• 1933 Baden: 3rd place single, double quarterfinals
• 1934, Paris: 2nd place Individual, 2nd double with Anita Felguth, with 1st place team
• In London in 1935: Quarter-finals Individual, 2nd double with Anita Felguth, with 3rd place team
• 1936 in Prague: 2nd place single, double quarter-finals, 2nd place with team
• 1937 in Baden: Quarter-finals Individual, 2nd place with team
• In Vienna in 1951: Eighth- double, Quarterfinal Round Mixed, member of the German team ( 9th place )

• National German Championships 1931 in Magdeburg - 1st place individual, 1st place Mixed with Cassius Weynand
• 1932 in Dresden - 1st place individual
• 1933 in Hamburg - 1st place individual
• 1934 in Braunschweig - 1st place individual
• 1935 in Szczecin - 1st place individual
• 1936 in Gelsenkirchen - 2nd place individual
• 1937 in Hohen Neuendorf (Berlin) - 2nd place individual
• 1941 in Dresden - 2nd place individual
• 1943 in Breslau - 2nd place single, double 2nd place with Hanna Büldge, 2nd place Mixed with Heinz Benthien
• 1944 in Breslau - 2nd place individual
• 1949 in Lübeck - 2nd place individual, 1st place with double Berti Capellmann
• 1951 in West Berlin - 2nd place with double I.Kirsten
• 1952 in East Berlin - 3rd place individual, 1st place Mixed with Heinz Schneider
• 1953 in Herford - 3rd place individual

• GDR Championships 1949 in Dresden - 1st place individual, 2nd place Mixed with Horst Christoph
• 1950 in Weimar - 1st place single, double 2nd place with Hilde Jasper, 2nd place Mixed with Wolfgang Kunth
• 1951 in Magdeburg - 1st place individual, 1st place with double Hanna Büldge, 1st place Mixed with Heinz Schneider
• 1952 in Chemnitz - 1st place single, double 2nd place with Hanna Büldge, 2nd place Mixed with Heinz Schneider
• 1953 in Cottbus - 2nd place single, double 2nd place with Hanna Büldge. 2nd place Mixed with Werner Rademacher

• International German Championships 1931 in Szczecin - 3rd Place Single, 3rd Place Mixed with Miklos Szabados
• 1933 in Berlin - 1st place individual, 1st place Mixed with David Jones
• 1935 in Hamburg - 1st place single, double 2nd place with Anita Felguth

• German Team Championships 1936 in Erfurt - 1st place with BSG Osram Berlin
• 1952 in Chemnitz - 1st place with BSG structure Boerde Magdeburg (DDR Championship )
• 1953 in Cottbus - 1st place with BSG structure Boerde Magdeburg (DDR Championship )

• Gaumeisterschaften 1933 - 1st place with Berlin
• 1934 - 1st place with Brandenburg
• 1935 - 1st place with Brandenburg
• 1936 - 1st place with Brandenburg
• 1937 - 1st place with middle

• International Championships 1936 England - 1st Place Double with Dora Emdin (England)

Successes in tennis

Results from the ITTF database