With great grief and sorrow we came to know that our club member Andreas Hampel died.

We are loosing a real sportsman, an excellent example to younger athletes and a sympathetic, decent person. As a member of ITF Germany National team he was one of the top performers for many years. As a fair, dedicated and hard working sportsman he was a good example for all team members and leaving behind a permanent impression.

His great experience he was pleased to pass on to the younger colleagues and also was always ready for a good joke.

Together with Master Brahim Triqui, who was his home coach, he celebrated he greatest successes. His open and friendly character we will not be forgotten.

We will keep him in our memory with the following words:

Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room. I am I and you are you.
Whatever we were to each other. That we are still. Call me by my old familiar name.
Speak to me in the easy way you always used. Put no difference into your tone.
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed.
At the little jokes we always enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household word that it always was.
Let it be spoken without effort. Without the ghost of a shadow in it.
Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was.
There is absolute unbroken continuity. What is death but a negligible accident?
Why should I be out of mind. Because I am out of sight?
I am waiting for you for an interval.
Somewhere very near. Just around the corner. All is well.
Nothing is past; nothing is lost. One brief moment and all will be as it was before.
How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!

(Canon Henry Scott-Holland, 1847-1918, Canon of St Paul’s Cathedral)