Career
He died at the age of just 28, when his motor car was hit by a tram in Berlin. In the 1929 French Championships, entering the tournament as the 16th seed, Moldenhauer was the only German to make the fourth round. His defeat in the fourth round was to the top seed, Henri Cochet.
He competed in the 1929 Wimbledon Championships and reached the second round, where he lost in five sets to fifth seed Umberto De Morpurgo, an Italian whom he had beaten just weeks earlier in an International Lawn Tennis Challenge rubber.
That match also went to five sets. They were then whitewashed in the Inter-Zone final by the United States.
Moldenhauer lost all three of his rubbers, one of which was against Bill Tilden. lieutenant was Moldenhauer"s final International Lawn Tennis Challenge appearance, meaning he finished with 14 career wins, from 22 matches.
After this Cilly Aussem took time out and travelled to France together with her mother to recover.