Golden badge of honour for Rudolf Ott: 43 years active on the board of the tennis club

Rudolf Ott has already received several honors for his voluntary work. Now he has received another one – as a surprise for the senior citizen. The 86-year-old reports that sport, including tennis, has always been important to him. Until two years ago, he still played a little doubles.

“I started playing sports very early. In 1949, when I was eleven, I attended the first sports festival. “It was one of the first festivals that could take place after the war,” the Grumbacher remembers. This was followed by regular tournaments, festivals and competitions, because in addition to gymnastics and athletics – where he also trained the youth – he also played football, initially in Boringafter the founding of the club then in GrumbachAfter he gave up playing football, he did less sport for a while, but then he started Germany the tennis boom began.

As a co-founder of the tennis club in Grumbach in 1980, he led the club’s fortunes until 1993. He was treasurer until 2023. Finances also occupied Ott’s professional life. After the German army, he joined the administration in Grumbach and then worked in the Lauterecken municipality as a senior civil servant until his retirement.

“Difficult negotiations” for tennis court

Ott was not only active on the board of the tennis club for 43 years, but also on the board of the gymnastics club before that. In addition, he was involved in local politics. As a councilor, he led the negotiations on the new development area, near which the TC has its club grounds. In order to be able to build the tennis courts and the clubhouse at the desired location, which were constructed by the club’s own efforts, “difficult negotiations were necessary. The sports field was originally planned as the location,” recalls Ott, who helped build the facility himself. In addition to his sporting and local political commitment, the 86-year-old was also a fire chief with the Grumbach fire department for around 15 years.

The fact that he was awarded the Golden Badge of Honor by the Palatinate Tennis Association at the end of the round was a pleasant surprise for the honorary member of the 1980 Grumbach Tennis Club.

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In the still new section “Country Stories” we want to tell stories about people who have contributed something special or are involved – whether in a club, a group for an event or their fellow human beings. The section is intended to be a colorful collection of stories from the Kusel district. Real country stories.

topicnews · September 19, 2024

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