Otto Froitzheim (24 April 1884 – 29 October 1962) was a German tennis player. At the 1908 Summer Olympics he won a silver medal in the men's singles tournament.
Froitzheim, who was born in Strasbourg, Alsace, German Empire won the inaugural World Hard Court Championships (Clay) held in 1912 in the Paris suburb of Saint-Cloud. In the final he defeated compatriot Oscar Kreuzer in four sets. He also won the International German Championship seven times (1907, 1909-1911, 1921-1922 and again in 1925).
He was ranked World No. 4 in 1914 by A. Wallis Myers of The Daily Telegraph.
In 1914, he and Oskar Kreuzer were members of the German International Lawn Tennis Challenge team, playing an International Lawn Tennis Challenge semifinal in Pittsburgh against Australasia. World War I 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 halted off the coast of Gibraltar and they were placed in a prison in Gibraltar for several months before being sent to a detention camp at Donington Hall in England where 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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