Hugo James
Hardy
Male
Germany
1878-08-11
Berlin, Germany
1936-10-08
Guben, Brandenburg, Germany
The following piece was translated and adapted from the Wikipedia entry in German on Hugo Hardy, which can be accessed here:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Hardy
Hugo Hardy was born in Berlin to banker James Nathan Hardy and Helena Ida Noemie Hardy (née Cahn). In his native city Hugo attended the Royal Wilhelms-Gymnasium, a type of secondary school. He subsequently studied at the University of Oxford in England. In 1900, he was awarded a doctorate in law in Heidelberg.
Hardy worked in the German colonial service and was district commissioner for German East Africa from 1906 to 1908. From 1911 he was private secretary to the secretary of state of the colony. In 1903, Hardy became a board member of the German Reich Committee for Physical Education.
Hardy himself donated 5000 Reichsmarks for the German Olympic team of 1904. At the 1904 Summer Olympics in Saint Louis, Missouri, he took part in the tennis competition as one of 22 athletes representing the German Reich. In singles, after benefiting from a bye in the previous round, he was defeated by eventual Olympic champion Beals Wright. In doubles, he lost in the first round with his American partner Paul Gleeson. For his display of African exhibits, he was awarded a gold medal at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, which was held at the same time as the Summer Olympic Games of 1904.
From 1913 to 1923, Hardy was treasurer for the German Reich Committee. During the 1936 Summer Olympics, he served as a kind of chef de mission. His wife Louise (née Oppenheim; 1896-1982) belonged to the famous Jewish Oppenheim family.
1896 - 1914
3
55
28
1901 - Sopot (Amateur)
1901 - Championships of Alsace-Lorraine (Amateur)
1899 - Championships of Strasbourg (Open)
Round 1
Round 2
Hugo James Hardy 1 *
Erich Goernemann
6-4
6-1
Quarterfinals
Dr Angelo Knorr 1 *
Hugo James Hardy
7-5
6-4
Round 1
Round 2
Hope M. Crisp 1 *
Hugo James Hardy
6-1
7-5
Round 1
Robert Kleinschroth 1 *
Hugo James Hardy
w.o.
Round 1
Hugo James Hardy 1 *
Frank Lampert Eberhardt
w.o.
Round 2
Beals Wright 1 *
Hugo James Hardy
6-2
6-1
Round 1
Hugo James Hardy 1 *
William Smith Easton
6-8
6-1
6-2
Round 2
H.C. Auld 1 *
Hugo James Hardy
6-1
4-6
7-5
Round 1
Hugo James Hardy 1 *
G.F. Finlayson
6-1
6-2
Round 2
Thomas Thorkil Hillerup 1 *
Hugo James Hardy
7-5
ret.
Round 2
Hugo James Hardy 1 *
Lionel de Minerbi
7-5
6-1
Round 3
Clarence Hobart 1 *
Hugo James Hardy
6-0
6-2
Round 1
Hugo James Hardy 1 *
Wilmot Ernest Lane
6-2
6-3
Round 2
Hugo James Hardy 1 *
Réginald Storms
8-6
6-1
Quarterfinals
Hugo James Hardy 1 *
Jhr. Theodoor Prins van Westdorpe
6-1
6-4
Semifinals
Paul de Borman 1 *
Hugo James Hardy
6-2
6-0
Round 1
Hugo James Hardy 1 *
Ferdinand Uhl
w.o.
Round 2
Rudolf (Rolf) Kinzl 1 *
Hugo James Hardy
6-2
6-1
Round 1
Wollmar Bostrom 1 *
Hugo James Hardy
6-1
8-6
Round 2
Dr. Hugo J. de Voss 1 *
Hugo James Hardy
w.o.
Final
Hugo James Hardy 1 *
Robert Hack
?
Final
Hugo James Hardy 1 *
Otto Von Muller
6-1
6-1
6-1
Final
Karl Schmidt-Knatz 1 *
Hugo James Hardy
?
Round 1
Thomas H. Nash 1 *
Hugo James Hardy
6-2
6-1
Round 1
Hugo James Hardy 1 *
Horace Rumbold
6-2
6-1
Quarterfinals
Hugo James Hardy 1 *
Dr. Robert Meyerhoffer
6-2
6-3
Semifinals
Robert N. Wilson jr 1 *
Hugo James Hardy
6-2
6-0
Quarterfinals
Hugo James Hardy 1 *
L. Brenner
6-2
6-3
Semifinals
Kurt Von Lersner 1 *
Hugo James Hardy
6-3
6-3
Round 2
Hugo James Hardy 1 *
Rudolf O. Schindler
3-6
6-3
6-2
Quarterfinals
Hugo James Hardy 1 *
Otto Von Muller
6-3
6-2
Semifinals
Hugo James Hardy 1 *
Viktor Von Muller
6-3
3-6
6-0
Final
Adolf Franz Max Otto Von Gordon 1 *
Hugo James Hardy
6-3
6-2
6-2
Round 1
Herbert Guy Nevill Dering 1 *
Hugo James Hardy
6-1
6-4
3-6
6-1
Final
Hugo James Hardy 1 *
H. Böhm
?
Round 1
Otto Von Muller 1 *
Hugo James Hardy
6-1
4-6
6-1
2-6
6-4
Round 1
Hugo James Hardy 1 *
Mr. Wenden
6-4
6-4
Round 2
Edward Burford Morrison 1 *
Hugo James Hardy
6-2
6-1
Round 2
Adolf Broese van Groenou 1 *
Hugo James Hardy
4-6
6-1
6-1
Round 2
Graf Viktor Eugen Felix Voss-Schönau 1 *
Hugo James Hardy
6-1
6-0
6-3
Round 1
Hugo James Hardy 1 *
Robert Ormsby Latham
6-4
6-4
Round 2
Hugo James Hardy 1 *
Walter Merrill Hall
6-3
6-1
Quarterfinals
Graf Viktor Eugen Felix Voss-Schönau 1 *
Hugo James Hardy
6-0
7-5
Round 1
Hugo James Hardy 1 *
Karl Von Jecklin
6-3
6-3
6-2
Quarterfinals
George Wantzelius 1 *
Hugo James Hardy
6-4
14-12
6-8
4-1
ret.
Round 1
Hugo James Hardy 1 *
Mr. Jecklin
w.o.
Quarterfinals
Hugo James Hardy 1 *
Mr. Miller
6-2
6-1
Semifinals
Jorge Rodolfo André 1 *
Hugo James Hardy
3-6
7-5
6-3
Round 1
Hugo James Hardy 1 *
B.N. Rotherham
6-4
6-2
Quarterfinals
Mr. Johnson 1 *
Hugo James Hardy
6-4
6-1
Round 1
Hugo James Hardy 1 *
Walter Heintze
6-2
8-6
Quarterfinals
Baron Hans Von Schneider 1 *
Hugo James Hardy
6-1
3-6
6-5
Round 1
Baron Hans Von Schneider 1 *
Hugo James Hardy
6-3
7-5