Gottfried von Cramm, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Gottfried von Cramm

German tennis player

Date of Birth: 07-Jul-1909

Date of Death: 09-Nov-1976

Profession: tennis player

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Gottfried Alexander Maximilian Walter Kurt Freiherr von Cramm (English: Baron Gottfried von Cramm, German pronunciation: ['g?t?f?i?t f?n 'k?am]; 7 July 1909 – 8 November 1976), was a German amateur tennis champion who won the French Open twice.
He was ranked number 2 in the world in 1934 and 1936, and number 1 in the world in 1937.
He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1977, an organisation which considers that he is "most remembered for a gallant effort in defeat against Don Budge in the 1937 Interzone Final at Wimbledon".Cramm represented Germany during the rise of the Nazi party to power in the 1930s.
The Nazi regime attempted to exploit his appearance and skill as a symbol of Aryan supremacy, but he refused to identify with Nazism.
He was persecuted as a homosexual by the German government and was jailed briefly in 1938. Cramm figured briefly in the gossip columns as the sixth husband of Barbara Hutton, the Woolworth heiress.