Johann Baptist Theodor Franz de Paula Philipp Maria was born into the noble Gudenus family, as the younger son of Philipp Friedrich Gabriel Heinrich Maria, Graf von Gudenus (1877-1948) and his wife, Angela Hardt (1880-1973).
His paternal grandparents were Count Heinrich Johann Baptist Ghislain von Gudenus (1839-1915) and Countess Ernestine of Thun und Hohenstein (1853-1910).
[1] At the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, he finished 12th and last in the two-man event.
Competing at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, he was eliminated in the first round of the 400 metres competition.
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