Otto Froitzheim
Otto Froitzheim (born April 24, 1884 in Strasbourg , † October 27, 1962 in Aachen ) was a German tennis player and administrative lawyer.
Life
Froitzheim's parents were the classical philologist Johann Froitzheim and his also Catholic wife Katharina geb. Funck. Otto Froitzheim was briefly engaged to Leni Riefenstahl in 1924 and had an affair with the actress Pola Negri .
job
Froitzheim studied law and was active in the Corps Teutonia Bonn in 1904 . In 1905 he became a trainee lawyer in Alsace-Lorraine. His other positions were in Berlin, Dortmund, Saargemünd, and in 1918 he was employed in the Lower Rhine Regional Council. After the end of the First World War he was employed at the police headquarters in Berlin, Cologne and Wiesbaden. He was Vice President in Merseburg at the beginning of 1933, then in Aachen until 1939.
tennis
He was the best German tennis player at the beginning of the 20th century and won the title at the international German tennis championships seven times between 1907 and 1925 . He won the silver medal at the 1908 Olympics and was world champion on the hard courts in 1912. In 1914 he played in New York in the German Davis Cup team against the US Davis Cup team and the mixed team from Australia and New Zealand. The game with Anthony Wilding against the Australians and New Zealanders was memorable ; because only a few hours after the German team lost the game, the First World War broke out. On the way back to Genoa with an Italian ship , this was stopped by a British patrol. Froitzheim and Oscar Kreuzer were interned and spent the First World War in an English internment camp.
In the 1920s he played for the TC Palmengarten in Frankfurt.
literature
- Bärbel Holtz (Ed.): The minutes of the Prussian State Ministry 1925-1938 / 38. Vol. 12 / II. (1925-1938) . Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim 2004. ISBN 3-487-12704-0 ( Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences [Hg.]: Acta Borussica . New series .) Online
- Heiner Gillmeister: "The Primus". In: Tennis in Germany. From the beginning to 2002. On the 100th anniversary of the German Tennis Association, published by the German Tennis Association eV Berlin, Duncker & Humblot 2002. Pages 80–83. ISBN 3-428-10846-9
Web links
- ITF profile of Otto Froitzheim (English)
- Davis Cup statistics from Otto Froitzheim (English)
- Otto Froitzheim in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Froitzheim, Otto. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
- ^ Portal of Remembrance , accessed December 24, 2012.
- ↑ Kösener Corpslist 1960, 15/352
- ^ Tennis men interned , New York Times, February 14, 1915. Retrieved July 30, 2012.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Froitzheim, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Strasbourg |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 27, 1962 |
| Place of death | Aachen , Germany |