Hans Nüsslein

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Hans Hanne Nüsslein (born March 31, 1910 in Nuremberg ; † June 28, 1991 in Altenkirchen ) was a German tennis player .

Alongside Gottfried von Cramm and Henner Henkel, he was the best German tennis player in the 1930s. Nüsslein was three times winner of the professional English tennis championships in the indoor tournament of Wembley , seven times winner of the German Pro Championships and three times professional world champion (1933, 1936, 1937). Among other things, he defeated tennis legend Bill Tilden in his successes .

Career

In his youth he played soccer, handball and tennis at 1. FC Nürnberg . As a 16-year-old, Nüsslein was forced to pursue the career of a professional athlete after he was reported to the German Tennis Association (DTB) by a player from the neighboring club . Two years later he completed his training as a tennis teacher, one of his teachers was the multiple tennis champion Roman Najuch , whom he was able to defeat for the first time at the German Pro Championships in 1931 . He played for the TC Palmengarten in Frankfurt and most recently, since 1936, for the Cologne tennis and hockey club Stadion Rot-Weiß . During the Second World War he was captured by the Americans, from which he was released in 1948. Then he reached world level in tennis again, before he ended his active career in 1956 and then worked as a tennis teacher, trainer and lecturer at the German Sport University in Cologne .

In 1980, in gratitude and in memory of its member, the club founded the Hanne Nüsslein Foundation to promote young tennis players. In recognition of his services to tennis, Nüsslein was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in June 2006 .

Private

Nüsslein was initially unmarried. It was not until he was 72 that he married his partner Anneliese. In 1991 he died of a stroke.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Nüsslein . International Tennis Hall of Fame Museum. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b Reiner Deike: The ostracized world champion . In: Deutscher Tennis Bund (Ed.): Tennis in Germany. From the beginnings to 2002 . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-428-10846-9 , pp. 103-104.
  3. ↑ Ray Bowers: History 1932-1933  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.tennisserver.com  
  4. ↑ Hans Nüsslein in the Munzinger archive , accessed on August 30, 2012 ( beginning of article freely accessible)

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personal data
SURNAME Nüsslein, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nut, Hanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg , Germany
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1991
Place of death Altenkirchen (Westerwald) , Germany