Carl August von der Meden
Carl August von der Meden (born December 6, 1841 in Hamburg ; † May 23, 1911 ) was the first president of the German Tennis Association from 1902 until his death .
Life
Von der Meden was born into a Hamburg merchant and broker family in 1841. From around 1864 he went on a world tour of several years to visit his widespread relatives. On August 9, 1868, he married Sophie Eckhard in Bradford, England . In the following years he stayed in England, where his children Sophie Elisabeth Gertrude (* 1869), Else (* 1871), Evelyn Lilian Thekla (* 1872) and Carl August (* 1875) were born. There he got to know modern tennis , invented by Walter Clopton Wingfield in 1874 .
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He returned to Hamburg in 1881 at the latest. There he became the first chairman of the "Uhlenhorster Eislauf-Verein", which was one of the first German clubs to include tennis in its program from the Medens Initiative. From 1892 the association organized the first German championships, in the first edition of which Meden also actively participated.
In 1901 von der Meden became chairman of the Hamburg Lawn Tennis Guild , an amalgamation of several Hamburg tennis clubs. As such, he was involved in founding the German Tennis Association in Berlin in May 1902 and was elected its first president.
He died in 1911 at the age of 69. The team season games in tennis in Germany are called Medenspiele in his memory .
Carl August von der Meden was buried in the area of the family grave at the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg, grid square X 24 ( Stiller Weg northwest of Chapel 2).
Sources and web links
- H. Gillmeister: cultural history of tennis. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7705-2618-X , p. 281 ff.
- Presidents 1902 to date. Carl August von der Meden. German Tennis Association, accessed on February 20, 2016 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Medenrunde. ( Memento of April 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) at: stb-tennis.de, accessed on April 11, 2018.
- ↑ Celebrity Graves
Carl August von der Meden | Emil Bartels | Gerhard Weber | Wilhelm Schomburgk | Erich Schönborn | Richard Stephanus | Max steel | Jost Henkel | Franz Helmis | Fritz Kütemeyer | Eduard H. Dörrenberg | Walther Rosenthal | Claus Stauder | Karl Weber | Georg Freiherr von Waldenfels | Karl-Georg Altenburg | Ulrich Klaus
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meden, Carl August von der |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | first President of the German Tennis Federation |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 6, 1841 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 23, 1911 |