Adam Baworowski

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Adam Baworowski

Adam Baworowski (born August 9, 1913 in Vienna , † early 1943 in Stalingrad ) was an Austrian - Polish tennis player .

Life

Adam Graf Baworowski came from the traditional Polish noble family Baworowski . From 1933 he appeared as a tennis player. As a member of the Austrian Davis Cup team , he was used from 1933 on the side of Georg von Metaxa in five matches until 1937 and reached the semi-finals of the European zone in 1936. In the same year he won the Austrian championships in Vienna.

At the French championships Baworowski reached the round of 16 in 1937 and 1938. After the " Anschluss " of Austria in March 1938, he decided to join the Polish Davis Cup team because he did not want to lose his parents' estate in Poland. He last took part in the game against the German team in May 1939, which was lost 3-2. At the Wimbledon Championships he had to admit defeat in his three appearances (1933, 1936 and 1939) each in the first round.

After the beginning of the Second World War , Baworowski was initially captured by Germany as a Polish soldier. In 1941 he was German runner-up at the war championships in Braunschweig . He was then drafted into the German Wehrmacht and fell in the Stalingrad pocket in early 1943 .

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literature

  • Heiner Gillmeister, Georg von Metaxa: A throwback to the 100th anniversary of the Austrian and German tennis federations , in: Stadium. International Journal of the History of Sport, 28.1 (2002), pp. 53-76.
  • Ulrich Kaiser: World history and the rule 33. In: Deutscher Tennis Bund (Hrsg.): Tennis in Germany. From the beginning until 2002. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2002. ISBN 3-428-10846-9 . P. 160f.
personal data
SURNAME Baworowski, Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Polish tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 1943
Place of death Stalingrad