Ilse Friedleben

Ilse Friedleben ( born September 2, 1893 in Frankfurt am Main as Ilse Weihermann; † December 1963 in London) was a German tennis player.

Life

Ilse Friedleben was born in 1893 in Frankfurt am Main. Together with her ​​two sisters, Toni and Anna, she played hockey at SC Frankfurt 1880. Tennis she played against it in the TC Palm Garden. Even before the First World War it was one with her sister Toni Germany's best tennis players.

In the early years of the Weimar Republic reach their greatest successes. She won 1920-1926 six times the German Championships in Hamburg. Only in 1925 they had there their Dauerrivalin Nelly Neppach beaten. With the final defeat in 1927 in Hamburg before 2 500 spectators against the emerging Cecily Aussem the end of their era announced. The magazine tennis and golf wrote about the finale: "With 6:3, 6:3 won Miss Aussem their first German championship, against that player of our lifetime, so far stood their success in the German Tennis unprecedented. Therefore, the minute-long applause was not only new, but just as heartily the old champion, who successfully fought many a victory on the Medenplatz. " In the same year Aussem eliminated them from the top of the German tennis rankings. At Wimbledon, she went to in 1927 and 1929, never came in the individual but beyond the first round. At the French Championships in 1927 she reached the second round, where she defeated Kea Bouman 6:3, 1:6 and 2:6. Most recently, she was still able to win the 1932 National German Championships.

In the spring of 1933 Friedleben was out in fifth place of the German tennis rankings. After the exclusion of all " non-Aryan " players from the German tennis clubs in April 1933 emigrated Friedleben, the Jewish faith was, in Switzerland. From then on, is known very little about her life. After the Second World War, it is said to have worked in Switzerland as a teacher. She died in December 1963 in London.