Froitzheim, Otto

Lawyer, police vice-president, tennis player

Born: 24.04.1884 in Strasbourg

died: 27.10.1962 in Wiesbaden

Froitzheim studied law in Bonn and worked as a senior government councillor and police vice president in Berlin and Cologne before being appointed police president of Wiesbaden in 1926.

He was also an extremely successful tennis player, leading the national rankings for 25 years. He won the German championship title in 1907 and the silver medal at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, becoming world champion twice. In addition to many other successes, he won tournaments at the International May Tournament in Wiesbaden in 1904 and 1905. In 1905, he also won the competition for the so-called Wiesbaden Championship.

When the First World War broke out in 1914, Froitzheim was in the USA for the Davis Cup tournament. On his way back to Genoa, he was arrested from the ship in Gibraltar together with tennis player Oskar Kreuzer and imprisoned as a prisoner of war in Great Britain until the end of the war.

In 1932, Froitzheim took over the chairmanship of the Wiesbaden Tennis and Hockey Club, which he had to relinquish in the same year due to another job-related change to the government vice-president in Aachen. Froitzheim returned to Wiesbaden in 1949 and took part in Wiesbaden tennis life again, including as head umpire.