Background
Aurél von Kelemen was born on 20 April 1888 Budapest, Hungary to Móric Kelemen, a judge.
Aurél von Kelemen was born on 20 April 1888 Budapest, Hungary to Móric Kelemen, a judge.
In 1920 he finished third at the Slovakia International Championships at Kassa. Aurél von Kelemen graduated at the k.u.k.
He competed at the 1912 Summer Olympics and 1924 Summer Olympics. He had a younger brother named Ernő, a journalist, who ran a revisionist media agency in Amsterdam. Cadet School in Traiskirchen as a horse artillery First Lieutenant.
He flew with a Gnome powered Farman plane.
In 1922 he was appointed the Chief operating officer of the same Club. An year later he was elected the vice-president of the Hungarian Tennis Association.
In 1926 he organized the first ever Hungarian nationwide youth tennis programme. In 1927 he was one of the founders of the first Hungarian Tungsram covered court at the Városliget.
In 1927 he introduced the usage of red clay in Hungary.
Up to 1944 he was a master course lecturer at the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport Sciences of the Semmelweis University. In 1925 he published his own tennis guide entitled A modern Lawn Tennis sport. His profession was poultry farming and being an animal husbandry expert.
He was awarded the title of Oberregierungsrat (a senior administrative position) by Hungarian Governor Miklós Horthy in 1930 for his sport merits.
Controversy
The case, better-known as the Equine nutrition-panama, was a military concession affair, where Kelemen"s firm supplied the army with horse nutrition and allegedly bribed logistics officers to bypass the shipment regulations. Overall 29 quartermaster officers and 11 paymasters were arrested.
Testimonies of these officers, many of whom received loans from Kelemen"s company, cleared up his role and it was proven that he didn"t gain any advantages in exchange for the loans. Kelemen was released on probation shortly after.
The case was closed in December 1930, all charges against Kelemen and his business partner were dismissed, although many high-ranked military officers were sentenced to several years in prison.
He was a five-time national doubles champion. He represented Hungary in one Davis Cup tie, playing doubles alongside Béla von Kehrling and subsequently lost to Jean Borotra and René Lacoste in 1925. In 1927 he was drafted into the international team challenge between Hungary and Austria and won the doubles tie partnering Pál Aschner against the pair of Herbert Kinzl-Mayer.
He was a member of Magyar Atlétikai Club of Budapest between 1907 and 1944. In 1909 he was the first member of the newly established aviator class of the Magyar Atlétikai Club.
