Gustav Jaenecke (22 May 1908 – 30 May 1985) or Jänecke was a German

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player who competed in the

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, in the

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, and in the

1936 Winter Olympics The 1936 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IV Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936, were a winter multi-sport event held from 6 to 16 February 1936 in the market town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Nazi Ger ...

, and

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player who played in three International Lawn Tennis Challenge ties for

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. He was born in

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and died in

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, West Germany. He was inducted into the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame in 1998.

Ice hockey

In 1928 he participated with the German ice hockey team, in the Olympic ice hockey tournament. Four years later he won the bronze medal with the German team. He played all six matches and scored one goal. In the 1933 World Ice Hockey Championships he scored two goals in a round-robin match against Poland in Group B of the European tournament draw. In the 1935 World Ice Hockey Championships in

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, Switzerland he scored two goals against Poland in the ninth-place game of the tournament. At the 1936 Olympic ice hockey tournament he played all six matches and scored three goals. His teammate Rudi Ball was half-Jewish and thus was initially overlooked for selection in the German ice hockey team. Jaenecke, his good friend refused to play unless Ball was included. With much controversy, Ball was finally included in the German team to play at the 1936 Olympic games. He was inducted into the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame in 1998.

Tennis

In 1931 he was ranked third on the German tennis rankings after reaching the final of the German Tennis Championships that year where he bowed to Roderich Menzel. Jaenecke played for

in the International Lawn Tennis Challenge ties against Italy (in the 1932 Europe Zone final), Japan and Egypt. The same year he won the German National Tennis Championships. In 1935 he was a runner-up for the national title again that time losing it to

Gottfried von Cramm Gottfried Alexander Maximilian Walter Kurt Freiherr von Cramm (; 7 July 1909 – 8 November 1976) was a German tennis player who won the French Open, French Championships twice, becoming the first non American, British, Australian or French playe ...

Personal life

Jaenecke was the youngest son of a wealthy banker. He had three siblings. He took over his wife's family shoe factory in the early 1930s. In 1939, he published his autobiography ''Jagd hinter dem Puck''. During the

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, the Nazi government ordered special shoes for people with disabilities from his company. Considered vital to the war effort, he could never be enlisted in the army and could stay in

. At the end of the war, he was forced to abandon his factory located in the east of the city, which fell under Soviet control. He moved to

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and tried unsuccessfully to open a new shoe factory. With the intervention of a childhood friend, he became a member of the board of directors of a casino in Bad Neuenahr. It also managed the Redoute, a famous ballroom in Bad Godesberg, and Bonner Press Club, a group of journalists from Bonn. In 1975, he became the principal shareholder of Casino Berlin. The management company still bears his name. Gustav Jaenecke married Elisabeth "Lisa" von Dobeneck, former wife of another German tennis star,

. They divorced and Lisa married Wolfgang Amman.

References

External links

IIHF Hockey Hall of Fame bio
* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Jaenecke, Gustav 1908 births 1985 deaths 20th-century German sportsmen German ice hockey left wingers German male tennis players Ice hockey players at the 1928 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 1932 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 1936 Winter Olympics IIHF Hall of Fame inductees Medalists at the 1932 Winter Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Germany Olympic ice hockey players for Germany Olympic medalists in ice hockey Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Sportspeople from Berlin