Carl August von der Meden
Carl August von der Meden (December 6, 1841 in Hamburg, † May 23, 1911 ) was from 1902 until his death, first president of the German Tennis Federation.
Life
From the Meden was born in 1841 in a Hamburg merchant and brokerage family. From about 1864 he embarked on a multi-year trip around the world to visit his widely ramified kinship. Am. August 9, 1868 he married in Bradford Sophie Eckhard. In the following years he lived in England, where his children Sophie Elisabeth Gertrude, Else (* 1871), Evelyn Lilian Thekla (* 1872) and Carl August (* 1875) were born. There he learned the 1874 Walter Clopton Wingfield invented by modern tennis know.
No later than 1881, he returned to Hamburg. There, he became the first chairman of the " Uhlenhorster Skating Association", who received one of the first German associations of the Medens initiative tennis in his program. As of 1892 the club hosted the first German championships, actively participated in the first edition of which also von der Meden.
In 1901, von der Meden Chairman of the Hamburg Lawn Tennis Guild, an association of Hamburg tennis clubs. As such, he was involved in the founding of the German Tennis Federation in May 1902 in Berlin, and was elected as its first president.
He died in 1911 at the age of 69 years. The Tennis round matches in Germany are named in his honor Medenspiele.
Sources and links
- Gillmeister, H.: Cultural history of tennis. Willhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7705-2618- X, pp. 281 ff
- Carl August von der Meden. German Tennis Federation, accessed on 25 October 2012.
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- Born in 1841
- Died in 1911