Karl Behr
Karl Howell Behr ( * May 30, 1885 in Brooklyn, New York, † 15 October 1949 in Morristown, New Jersey ) was an American tennis player and banker as well as a survivor of the sinking of the Titanic.
Life
Behr came as a child of Herman Behr and his wife Grace ( née Howell ) to the world. His siblings were Margaret, Gertrude, Herman Jr., Frederick and Max Behr, all wearing the mother's maiden name as a middle name ( middle name ).
Behr studied at Yale University. In Intercollegiate Championship he won in 1907 in doubles. He also starred along with his compatriot Beals Wright in the finals of the doubles competition at Wimbledon in 1907 against Norman Brookes and Tony Wilding. They lost in three sets 4:6, 4:6 and 2:6.
In 1912, the 26 -year-old Behr was just on a business trip in Europe, when he heard that Helen Newsom, a friend of his sister, as passenger on the Titanic traveled back to the USA. Behr, who was in love with Newsom, was so hoping to be closer to her and booked a ticket from Cherbourg also first class. Against the wishes of Mrs. RL Beckwith, the mother of 19 -year-old Helen Newsom, Karl Behr continued the relationship progresses.
On the night of the sinking of the Titanic, from 14 to 15 April 1912 conducted Behr Helen, her mother, as well as another couple, Mr. and Mrs. Kimball from Boston ( Massachusetts) on the boat deck. Together they created the group in lifeboat No. 5. Secondly to 00.55 clock on the starboard side, was lowered into the water
Arriving in New York City founded Behr and other passengers of the first class, including Molly Brown, a committee to honor Captain Arthur Rostron of the RMS Carpathia. Rostron was doing a silver cup, the other 320 crew members of the Carpathia medals.
On July 18, 1912, he met for the first time in a tournament in Boston on Richard Williams, whom he had met after the sinking of the Titanic to the Carpathia.
On March 1, 1913, nearly a year after the sinking, Karl Howell Behr and Helen Monypeny Newsom married in the Church of the Transfiguration in New York. The couple had four children, three sons and one daughter:
- Karl Howell Behr, Jr. ( * 1914, † August 10, 2002 )
- Peter Howell Behr ( * May 24, 1915, † 10 March 1997)
- James Howell Behr ( * July 16, 1920, † 14 June 1976)
- Sally Howell Behr, later Mrs. Samuel Leonard Pettit (* March 8, 1928; † September 1995)
Karl Howell Behr was later banker and early became vice-president of Dillon, Read & Company. He was also active in numerous corporate boards, including at the Fisk Rubber Company, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company and the National Cash Register Company. He was also director of the Inter- Chemical Corporation, the Behr - Manning Corporation of Troy, NY and the Witherbee and Sherman Mining Company.
Karl Howell Behr died in 1949, at the age of 64, of natural causes. Behr was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame posthumously in 1969.
Helen Behr married again; one of Charles' best friends and tennis partners, Dean Mathey. She died in 1965 at the age of 73 in Princeton.