| Gustav Jaenecke | |||
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 Gustav Jaenecke (left) withChristian Boussus | |||
| Born | (1908-05-22)22 May 1908 | ||
| Died | 30 May 1985(1985-05-30) (aged 77) Bonn, West Germany | ||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (178 cm) | ||
| Weight | 170 lb (77 kg; 12 st 2 lb) | ||
| Position | Left wing | ||
| Shot | Left | ||
| National team |  Germany | ||
| Playing career | 1923–1950 | ||
| Olympic medal record | ||
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| Men'sIce hockey | ||
| Representing Germany | ||
 | 1932 Lake Placid | Ice Hockey |
Gustav Jaenecke (22 May 1908 – 30 May 1985) orJänecke[1] was a Germanice hockey player who competed in the1928 Winter Olympics, in the1932 Winter Olympics, and in the1936 Winter Olympics, andtennis player who played in threeInternational Lawn Tennis Challenge ties forGermany.
He was born inBerlin,German Empire and died inBonn, West Germany. He was inducted into theInternational Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame in 1998.
In 1928 he participated with theGerman ice hockey team, in theOlympic 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 the1933 World Ice Hockey Championships he scored two goals in a round-robin match against Poland in Group B of the European tournament draw.[2]
In the1935 World Ice Hockey Championships inDavos, Switzerland he scored two goals against Poland in the ninth-place game of the tournament.[3]
At the 1936Olympic ice hockey tournament he played all six matches and scored three goals. His teammateRudi 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.[4]
He was inducted into theInternational Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame in 1998.[5][6]
In 1931 he was ranked third on the German tennis rankings after reaching the final of theGerman Tennis Championships that year where he bowed toRoderich Menzel.[7]Jaenecke played forGermany in the International Lawn Tennis Challenge ties against Italy (in the1932 Europe Zone final), Japan and Egypt. The same year he won the German National Tennis Championships.[8] In 1935 he was a runner-up for the national title again that time losing it toGottfried von Cramm.[9]
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 autobiographyJagd hinter dem Puck. During theSecond World War, theNazi 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 inBerlin. At the end of the war, he was forced to abandon his factory located in the east of the city, which fell underSoviet control. He moved toHannover 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 inBad Neuenahr. It also managed theRedoute, a famous ballroom inBad Godesberg, and Bonner Press Club, a group of journalists from Bonn. In 1975, he became the principal shareholder ofCasino Berlin. The management company still bears his name.[4][10]
Gustav Jaenecke married Elisabeth "Lisa" von Dobeneck, former wife of another German tennis star,Gottfried von Cramm.[11] They divorced and Lisa married Wolfgang Amman.[12]
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