Otto Froitzheim

Olympic medalist
Medal record
Men's Tennis
Silver	1908 London	Singles

Otto Froitzheim (24 April 1884 – 29 October 1962^[1]) was a German tennis player. At the 1908 Summer Olympics he won a silver medal in the men's singles tournament.

Froitzheim, who was born in Strasbourg, Alsace, German Empire won the International German Championship seven times (1909-1911, 1921-1922 and again in 1925). In 1912 he won the World Hard Court Championships (Clay). In 1914, he and Oskar Kreuzer were members of the German International Lawn Tennis Challenge team, playing an International Lawn Tennis Challenge semifinal in Pittsburgh against Australasia. World War I was declared in the middle of the match, but those monitoring the telegraph did not want to disrupt the match. Froitzheim and Kreuzer sailed back to Germany as soon as possible, but their boat was sank off the coast of Gibraltar and they spent the war years as prisoners of war of the British.

In the mid-1920s he was engaged to Leni Riefenstahl.

Notes

1. ^ other sources report his date of death on 27 October 1962

• New York Times: TENNIS MEN INTERNED.; Froitzheim and Kreuger, Davis Cup Players, in English Detention Camp

External links

• profile
• Davis Cup profile

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Name	Froitzheim, Otto
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Date of birth	24 April 1884
Place of birth	Strasbourg, German Empire
Date of death	29 October 1962
Place of death