Hans von Wolff

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Hans Freiherr von Wolff (born March 6, 1903 , † June 20, 1944 ) was a German officer and bearer of the oak leaves for the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.

Life

Hans Freiherr von Wolff came from a noble family of Baltic Germans who originally immigrated from Sagan . With the Imperial Russian Vice-President of the Judicial College and former bailiff in Narwa Sigmund Adam Wolff , she was raised to the hereditary Russian nobility on May 11, 1725 and to the imperial baron status on September 22, 1747 . He himself was a member of the Rodenpois branch of the Fianden line and was born on March 6, 1903 on one of the family estates (Lindenberg, Riga district in Livonia ). His parents were the Livonian district administrator Joseph Freiherr von Wolff (1868-1922), Lord of Groß-Kangern, Lindenberg and Hinzenberg, and Anna von Gruenewaldt (1871-1838). After the founding of Latvia in 1918, the family was expropriated like most German-Baltic landowners and therefore moved to Bad Doberan in Mecklenburg, where Joseph von Wolff died in 1922.

Hans von Wolff became a career officer in the Wehrmacht , in which he had a steep career until his death on June 20, 1944 as a result of an injury sustained near Pinsk in Belarus . He acquired the Knight's Cross for the Iron Cross and was awarded the Knight's Cross as a captain on January 16, 1942 as the 61st Wehrmacht soldier. In the further course of the war he became regimental commander and colonel . He fell as a brigade commander .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Stockert: Die Eichenlaubträger 1940–1945 , 9 volumes, 4th revised edition, Bad Friedrichshall 2010/2011
  2. ^ Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility , Volume F XXVI, CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg 2014, p. 562.
  3. ^ Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility , Volume F XXVI, CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg 2014, p. 564.
  4. ↑ a b Genealogical Manual of the Nobility , Volume F XXVI, CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg 2014, p. 567.
personal data
SURNAME Wolff, Hans von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolff, Johann Gottlieb Erich Viktor Alexander Joseph Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, bearer of the Knight's Cross with oak leaves
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1903
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1944