Klaus Raffeiner [SEP] country of citizenship
Klaus Raffeiner
Klaus Raffeiner (born 1977) is a male badminton player from Italy.
Career.
Raffeiner played the 2007 BWF World Championships in men's singles, and was defeated in the first round by Simon Maunoury, of France, 23-21, 21-16. In his home country he won the Italian National Badminton Championships eleven times in a row.
External links.
- BWF Player Profile
whose ambivalence towards Nazi rule was well known, Klaus expressed concern about his continued membership in the national German academy of writers, pointing out the moral dilemma it posed, even urging him to leave the country to join the German intellectuals in exile. 
In November 1934 Klaus was stripped of German citizenship by the Nazi regime. He became a Czechoslovak citizen. In 1936, he moved to the United States, living in Princeton, New Jersey, and New York. In the summer of 1937, he met his partner for