Gottfried von Cramm
Gottfried Alexander Maximilian Walter Kurt Freiherr von Cramm , was a German amateur tennis champion who won the French Open twice. He was ranked numberin the world in 1934 and 1936, and numberin 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.
The third of the seven sons of Burchard Baron von Cramm, and his wife Jutta, ne von Steinberg, Gottfried was born at the family estate near Nettlingen, Lower Saxony, Germany. The family title, which was bestowed upon his paternal grandfather in 1891, was inherited in 1936 by Gottfrieds eldest brother, Aschwin. Another brother, WilhelmErnst Freiherr von Cramm , was a highly decorated German officer during World War II, and was later head of the German Party, a conservative German political party.
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