German National Championships 1955


General 1955-08-17 - 1955-08-22
Amateur
Clay
5
Braunschweig, THC
Germany

Source World Tennis/Deutsche Tennis Zeitung


Report These National Championships mark the end of an era in German Tennis.The dominance of the war generation (Buchholz,Koch,Gulcz) was finally broken by
a group of players ( Huber,Scholl,Feldbausch) who were children or adolescents when the war was over in 1945 and received their tennis education in the years after the catastrophe.However, their dominance was to be shortlived.In the following 3 years all of them were defeated at the National Championships by Milan Branovic who had become a german citizen in 1955.In 1959 the players of the birthyear 1939 (Bungert,Ecklebe,Kuhnke and Stuck) took over for 13 years (up to 1971) and finally regained some of the international reputation German Tennis once had.It seems significant that two of them (Bungert,Stuck) already made their first entry in the National Championships in 1955 at the tender age of 16.



Media


Winner Rupert Huber


Players
Heinz Balland
Richard Bauer
Johann Christoph Biederlack
Manfred Bohnen
Georg Brandt
Ewald Brunner
Ernst Buchholz
Wilhelm Paul Bungert
Willi Busold
Richard Dahlmann
Franz Feldbausch
Dieter Gerloff
Joachim Gohlke
Jochen Grosse
Helmut Gulcz
Werner Helmrich
Horst Hermann
Rupert Huber
Dieter Kapfhammer
Engelbert Koch
Helmut Kumpfel (Kümpfel)
Wilhelm Lohkamp
Klaus Meya
Günther Meyer
Klaus Potass
Joseph (Beppo) Pottinger (Pöttinger)
Peter Rode
Karl-Heinz Sanders
Peter Scholl
Ralph Schöpp
Fritz Sehmrau
Wolfgang Stuck


Rounds
Round 1
Ernst Buchholz*
Peter Rode
6-2 6-4
Klaus Potass*
Heinz Balland
6-8 10-8 6-0
Georg Brandt*
Helmut Kumpfel
6-4 6-3
Franz Feldbausch*
Dieter Kapfhammer
6-1 6-1
Beppo Pottinger*
Richard Dahlmann
6-3 4-6 6-3
Helmut Gulcz*
Wolfgang Stuck
6-2 6-4
Peter Scholl*
Willi Busold
6-2 6-1
Horst Hermann*
Wilhelm Lohkamp
6-1 6-1
Rupert Huber*
Günther Meyer
6-2 6-3
Ewald Brunner*
Wilhelm Bungert
6-1 6-2
Fritz Sehmrau*
Richard Bauer
6-2 6-8 6-3
Werner Helmrich*
Ralph Schöpp
6-3 6-3
Johann Christoph Biederlack*
Jochen Grosse
6-2 6-4
Dieter Gerloff*
Klaus Meya
6-3 6-4
Karl-Heinz Sanders*
Joachim Gohlke
6-3 5-7 6-2
Engelbert Koch*
Manfred Bohnen
6-1 6-4

Round 2
Ernst Buchholz*
Klaus Potass
6-1 3-6 6-2
Franz Feldbausch*
Georg Brandt
6-2 6-3
Helmut Gulcz*
Beppo Pottinger
6-1 6-4
Peter Scholl*
Horst Hermann
6-3 8-6
Rupert Huber*
Ewald Brunner
6-0 6-3
Werner Helmrich*
Fritz Sehmrau
6-2 6-2
Dieter Gerloff*
Johann Christoph Biederlack
6-1 2-6 6-1
Karl-Heinz Sanders*
Engelbert Koch
6-2 8-6

Quarterfinals
Franz Feldbausch*
Ernst Buchholz
2-6 6-4 7-5
Peter Scholl*
Helmut Gulcz
6-3 6-2
Rupert Huber*
Werner Helmrich
6-0 6-4
Karl-Heinz Sanders*
Dieter Gerloff
4-6 6-1 6-4

Semifinals
Peter Scholl*
Franz Feldbausch
6-0 3-6 4-6 6-4 7-5
Rupert Huber*
Karl-Heinz Sanders
7-5 7-5 6-2

Final
Rupert Huber*
Peter Scholl
8-6 6-3 6-3


Tournament
Round 1
Rupert Huber*
Günther Meyer
Ewald Brunner*
Wilhelm Bungert
Werner Helmrich*
Ralph Schöpp
Fritz Sehmrau*
Richard Bauer
Karl-Heinz Sanders*
Joachim Gohlke
Engelbert Koch*
Manfred Bohnen
Dieter Gerloff*
Klaus Meya
Johann Christoph Biederlack*
Jochen Grosse
Peter Scholl*
Willi Busold
Horst Hermann*
Wilhelm Lohkamp
Helmut Gulcz*
Wolfgang Stuck
Beppo Pottinger*
Richard Dahlmann
Franz Feldbausch*
Dieter Kapfhammer
Georg Brandt*
Helmut Kumpfel
Ernst Buchholz*
Peter Rode
Klaus Potass*
Heinz Balland
Round 2
Rupert Huber*
Ewald Brunner
Werner Helmrich*
Fritz Sehmrau
Karl-Heinz Sanders*
Engelbert Koch
Dieter Gerloff*
Johann Christoph Biederlack
Peter Scholl*
Horst Hermann
Helmut Gulcz*
Beppo Pottinger
Franz Feldbausch*
Georg Brandt
Ernst Buchholz*
Klaus Potass
Quarterfinals
Rupert Huber*
Werner Helmrich
Karl-Heinz Sanders*
Dieter Gerloff
Peter Scholl*
Helmut Gulcz
Franz Feldbausch*
Ernst Buchholz
Semifinals
Rupert Huber*
Karl-Heinz Sanders
Peter Scholl*
Franz Feldbausch
Final
Rupert Huber*
Peter Scholl