Ludolf Jakob von Alvensleben

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Ludolf Jakob von Alvensleben (1st from left)

Ludolf Jakob von Alvensleben , also Ludolf Jacob von Alvensleben , actually Jakob Ludolf von Alvensleben , (born August 9, 1899 in Wittenmoor , † August 28, 1953 in Dortmund ) was a German SS standard leader as well as SS and police commander and most recently SS and Police chief in Italy .

Occasionally he is confused with his extensive relative Ludolf-Hermann von Alvensleben (mostly only Ludolf von Alvensleben ), a senior SS officer.

Life

Ludolf von Alvensleben came from the Low German noble family von Alvensleben and was the second eldest son of the landowner, royal Prussian chamberlain, manor house member and district deputy Ludolf Udo von Alvensleben (1852-1923) on Wittenmoor, Sichau-Tarnefitz and Plutowo, and Ida von . von Glasenapp (1866–1924). After attending the Brandenburger Ritterakademie, he embarked on a military career in the Prussian army , in which he rose to lieutenant . While his eldest brother Udo von Alvensleben received his father's Wittenmoor estate, Ludolf von Alvensleben got the 607 hectare Plauthof estate (pl. Płutowo) in the West Prussian district of Kulm . But already on January 7, 1922, this property was liquidated by the Polish government. His youngest brother was Wichard von Alvensleben , who freed several very prominent SS hostages in Tyrol in April 1945 (see: Liberation of SS hostages in South Tyrol ).

Ludolf von Alvensleben joined the NSDAP ( membership number 1.313.391) and the SS (SS number 52.195). On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the seizure of power , he was promoted to SS-Standartenführer in 1938. At the beginning of the Second World War he was chief of the Volksdeutsche Selbstschutz in the Płutowo inspection. For several years he was adjutant to the Reich Sports Leader of Tschammer und Osten.

From May 11, 1944 to April 10, 1945, Alvensleben was police commander in Friuli with his office in Udine and then SS and Police Leader Adria-West until the end of the war .

Since December 1941 he was married to Christa Kauffmann (1909–1974).

literature

  • Genealogical handbook of the nobility , Baltic Sea, CA Starke., 1983

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Areligen Häuser, Part A, 36th year, Gotha 1937, p. 21.
  2. ↑ http://www.dws-xip.pl/reich/biografie/lista5/lista5.html
  3. ^ Kerstin von Lingen : Allen Dulles, the OSS, and Nazi War Criminals: The Dynamics of Selective Prosecution , Cambridge University Press, 2013, p. 261
personal data
SURNAME Alvensleben, Ludolf Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alvensleben, Ludolf Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS leader and police commander
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittenmoor
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1953
Place of death Dortmund