Von Cramm Cooperative is a student operated house on the West Campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York State. The house was founded in 1956 by a grant from Thomas Gilchrist to form a memorial house at the university in memory of his close friend Baron Von Cramm. Baron Von Cramm was a commanding officer in the 16th Panzer Division of the German army, and he died in the battles of June 1941, after his unit attempted to block the Soviet Army's retreat. Originally the house was a male scholarship house, but during the 1970s the house became a self-governing Coop open also to women.