Georg Böhm

Table tennis player Georg Böhm represented Romania, his country of birth, until the 1980 European Championships at Bern, Switzerland. He then moved to Germany and represented his new home country at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. He was eliminated in the group stages of both the men’s singles and doubles.

Böhm won the Romanian national singles title in 1977 and 1978 and, with his brother Josef, also won the doubles. With his home club CSM Cluj, Böhm won five national team championships. In Germany, he added eight more national titles, in singles in 1982-83, 1985-87 and 1995, doubles in 1984, and mixed in 1990. He won 102 international caps for Germany.

With ATSV Saarbrücken Böhm won the European Champions Cup in 1986, and again with TTC Zugbrücke Grenzau in 1987 and 1988. He also won six German national team championships and four national cups. During the 1980s and 1990s, Böhm was one of the best table tennis players in Germany and was #1 in Germany from 1982-88. In 1990, he won a team silver at the European Championships, and two years later a team bronze.

At club level, Böhm played in Romania with Sportclub Sălacea (1969-74), Sinteza Oradea (1974-76), CSM Cluj (1976-80), and then in Germany with TTC Mörfelden (1980-81), TTC Heusenstamm (1981-82 and 2002-03), ATSV Saarbrücken (1982-86), TTC Zugbrücke Grenzau (1986-96), TTC Würzburger Hofbräu (1996-99), Hertha BSC Berlin (1999-2000, 2002-07 and 2010-11), TTC Karlsruhe-Neureut (2000-02), TSV Schwalbe Tündern (2007-08), TTC Hagen (2008-10 and 2011-13), TTC Wehrden (2013-14), TTV Rondorf (2014-15), and finally TVB Nassau (2015-21).