Olympic medalist
Medal record
Men's Tennis
Silver	1908 London	Singles

Otto Froitzheim (24 April 1884 in Strasbourg, Alsace – 29 October 1962^[1]) was a German tennis player. At the 1908 Summer Olympics he won a silver medal in the men's singles tournament.

He was able to win the International German Championship seven times (1909-1911, 1921-1922 and again in 1925). In 1912 he became Hardcourt World Champion. In 1914, he and Oskar Kreuzer were member of the German Davis Cup team, playing a Davis Cup semifinal in Pittsburgh against Australia. World War One was declared in the middle of the match, but those monitoring the telegraph did not want to disrupt the match. Froitzheim and Kreuzer sailed back to Germany as soon as possible, but their boat was sank off the coast of Gibralter and they spent the war years as prisoners of war of the British.

In the mid-1920s he was engaged to Leni Riefenstahl.

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1. ^ other sources report his date of death on 27 October 1962

• New York Times: TENNIS MEN INTERNED.; Froitzheim and Kreuger, Davis Cup Players, in English Detention Camp

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