- Born
- Died
- Birth nameGottfried Alexander Maximilian Walter Kurt Freiherr von Cramm
- Nickname
- The Tennis-Baron
- Gottfried Von Cramm was born on July 7, 1909 in Nettlingen, Lower Saxony, Germany. He was married to Barbara Hutton and Elisabeth von Dobeneck. He died on November 8, 1976 in Cairo, Egypt.
- SpousesBarbara Hutton(November 8, 1955 - January 1960) (divorced)Elisabeth von Dobeneck(1930 - 1937) (divorced)
- RelativesBerno von Cramm(Niece or Nephew)
- One of the best tennis players of his time, who was inducted to the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1977.
- While winning the French Open twice (1934, 1936), he was the men's single runner-up in Wimbledon, losing to Fred Perry and Don Budge, for three straight years. In 1937, he was also US Open finalist.
- Despite his enormous popularity in Germany, the Nazi regime interrupted his career in March 1938, when he was arrested and ordered to stand trial for the crime of homosexuality. Although his international tennis friends were outraged and sent a letter to Adolf Hitler, he was sentenced to a year in prison.
- Member of the German Davis Cup team -- with interruptions -- from 1932 to 1953.
- The Gottfried-von-Cramm-Weg in Berlin, site of the Rot-Weiss tennis club, was given his name.
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