Hans Nüsslein

Hanne Hans Nüsslein ( born March 31, 1910 in Nuremberg, † June 28, 1991 in Old Church ) was a German tennis player.

He was next to Gottfried von Cramm and Henner Henkel of the best German tennis player in the 1930s. Nüsslein was three times winner of the professional English tennis championships at Wembley and three times World Professional Champion (1933, 1936, 1937). Among other things, he defeated his successes in tennis legend Bill Tilden.

Career

As a 16 -year-old Nüsslein pursued a career as a professional player. Two years later he became a professional instructor. He played for the TC Palm Garden in Frankfurt and finally, since 1936, for the Cologne tennis and hockey club stadium red and white. During the Second World War, he fell into American captivity, from which he was discharged in 1948. Then he reached in the tennis world level again, before he ended his active career in 1956. He then worked as a tennis coach, trainer and lecturer at the German Sport University Cologne.

In gratitude and memory of a member of the club in 1980 founded the Hanne Nüsslein Foundation for the Promotion of tennis talent. In recognition of his services to the sport of tennis Nüsslein was recorded in June 2006 into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

Private

Nüsslein was married. He died in 1991 of a stroke.