Hugo Hardy
Hugo James Hardy (born August 11, 1877 in Hamburg , † October 8, 1936 in Berlin ) was a German tennis player and lawyer .
biography
Hugo Hardy was born in Berlin as the son of banker James Nathan Hardy and Helena Ida Noemie Cahn . There he attended the Royal Wilhelms-Gymnasium and later studied at Balliol College in Oxford . In 1900 he finally received his doctorate in law in Heidelberg . Hardy was active in the German colonial service and was district commissioner for German East Africa from 1906 to 1908 . From 1911 he was the private secretary of the state secretary of the colony.
In 1903 Hardy became a board member of the German Reich Committee for Physical Exercise . He himself donated 5000 RM for the German Olympic team. At the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis , he took part in the tennis competition as one of a total of 22 athletes for the German Empire . There he was the only player who was not from the United States . In both the men's singles and the men's doubles , he was eliminated without a win. in the individual he was defeated by the eventual Olympic champion Beals Wright after he had benefited from a bye in the previous round. In doubles he lost his first round match with his US partner Paul Gleeson . He was awarded a gold medal for his display of African exhibits at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition , held at the same time as the Olympic Games. From 1913 to 1923 Hardy took over the position of treasurer for the German Reich Committee . His wife Louise Oppenheim (1896–1982) belonged to the famous Jewish Oppenheim family .
During the 1936 Summer Olympics , he was a kind of Chef de Mission . A little later, the Berliner died under unknown circumstances. One reason for this could have been his Jewish family.
Web links
- Hugo Hardy in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- ITF profile Hugo Hardy (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jürgen Court: German sports science in the Weimar Republic and in National Socialism . Ed .: Jürgen Court. Volume 2 . LIT Verlag, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-643-12558-3 , pp. 34 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hardy, Hugo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hardy, Hugo James (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German tennis player and lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 11, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin , German Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 8, 1936 |
| Place of death | Berlin , German Empire |