Wolfgang
von Tirpitz
Male
Germany
1887-04-21
Kiel, Germany
1968-00-00
Irschenhausen?, West-Germany
He was the son of one of the main actors on the political scene of the German Empire,Grand-Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz,Secretary of State of the Imperial Navy 1897-1916 and creator of the german battle fleet in the years before the outbreak of the Great War.Ennobled with his father in 1900, he joined the Imperial Navy in 1906.He became a prisoner of war after the sinking of the light cruiser SMS Mainz during the Battle of Heligoland on 28.VIII.1914 and returned to service during the war thanks to a prisoner-of-war exchange,but left the navy after the end of the war.During the interwar years he worked for IG Farben.He was drafted into the Kriegsmarine during the Second World War and reached the rank of Commander until he was discharged in November 1944 since his brother-in-law Ulrich von Hassell was executed as one of the conspirators of the failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler in July 1944.In his paper about his four meetings with Winston Churchill between 1913 and 1953 he described himself as one of the best tennis players of the Imperial Navy before the Great War.His name appears on the list of tennis players printed in the Tennis Handbuch 1925.
1912 - 1927
0
5
2
Round 1
Paul Schlesinger 1 *
Wolfgang von Tirpitz
6-2
8-6
Round 3
Wolfgang von Tirpitz 1 *
Mr. von Freier
6-3
4-6
7-5
Quarterfinals
Hans Moldenhauer 1 *
Wolfgang von Tirpitz
6-2
6-0
Round 1
Wolfgang von Tirpitz 1 *
Mr. Kapfmann
6-1
6-2
Quarterfinals
Alfred Bruns Sr 1 *
Wolfgang von Tirpitz
6-4
6-2