Alexander von Wrangell

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Alexander Freiherr von Wrangell (born November 10, 1896 in Ostrolenka , † October 6, 1987 in Mühlhausen (Stuttgart) ) was a German farmer and politician (NSDAP).

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Alexander Freiherr von Wrangell was born a Russian citizen. After the death of his father in 1899, he grew up as a half-orphan. During his childhood, which he spent in Warsaw , Lithuania and Estonia , he was tutored by private tutors. He then attended the secondary school in Reval until 1915 , where he also passed the Abitur. From 1916 to 1918 he studied political science at the Baltic Technical University, which had been evacuated to Moscow, and the private Schaniawsky University. In addition, he worked from 1916 to 1918 as an employee at a major Moscow bank and in the higher council for national economy. From August to November 1918 Wrangell was a student at the Baltic Technical University in Riga . During the Russian Civil War, von Wrangell, who was now stateless, fled to Germany, where he was naturalized in 1924.

From December 1918 to January 1920 Wrangell was a volunteer with the shock troop for the special use of the Baltic Landwehr and then with the Freikorps Bielefeld. From 1920 to 1923 Wrangell worked as a bank clerk in Stuttgart , Berlin and Frankfurt am Main . In 1923 he married. The marriage lasted until Wrangell's wife died in 1976. From 1924 to 1925 Wrangell trained as a state-certified farmer at the Higher School for Practical Agriculture in Landsberg on the Warta . He later took over the Schönberg estate via Westerhofen.

In the summer of 1930 Wrangell joined the NSDAP (membership number 290.179), in which he first acted as a local group leader. He later took on tasks as an agricultural consultant and speaker. In the Reichstag election of March 1933 , von Wrangell was elected to the Reichstag as a candidate of the NSDAP for constituency 31 (Württemberg), to which he belonged until November of the same year. In 1938 Wrangell became a member of the SS (membership number 225,248).

After 1945 Wrangell was taken prisoner by the US. After his return from this he lived at Gut Schönberg until February 1974. He then moved to Stuttgart, where he lived until his death. He also published his memoirs. Wrangell's estate is now archived in the document collection of the Marburg Herder Institute (DSHI).

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  1. ↑ German Biographical Adelsrepertorium (Sto-Zyl) at http://home.foni.net/~adelsforschung1 , accessed on March 4, 2013
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SURNAME Wrangell, Alexander von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wrangell, Alexander Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Ostrolenka
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1987
Place of death Muhlhausen (Stuttgart)