Wolfgang Count Yorck von Wartenburg
Hans Ludwig David Viktor Wolfgang "Wolf" Count Yorck von Wartenburg (born September 9, 1899 in Schleibitz ; † September 12, 1944 near Bonnal , Doubs , France ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).
Life
Wolfgang Graf Yorck von Wartenburg came from the old Prussian noble family of the Yorck von Wartenburg . He was the eldest of three sons of Hans Ludwig David Hasso Count Yorck von Wartenburg (1863-1916) and his wife Berta, née Countess von Bassewitz (1874-1951). After he had passed his high school diploma in 1917 at a grammar school in Liegnitz , he took part in the First World War from summer 1917 to autumn 1918 with the body cuirassier regiment "Großer Kurfürst" (Silesian) No. 1 and was dismissed as a lieutenant at the end of the war . He then studied agriculture and law in Munich , Königsberg and Berlin .
On October 3, 1923, he married Anna von Sivers (* 1903), a daughter of August von Sivers on Popraggen and Raiskum and Clara Gohs. The marriage had five children: Berta Clara Sigrid (1924–1972), Hasso (* 1926), Erika Catharina (* 1927), Claus-Peter (* 1930) and Wolf-Dieter (* 1935).
On July 1, 1930, Yorck von Wartenburg joined the NSDAP ( membership number 269.306), where he initially took over the office of district leader in Oels. He later became head of department for Eastern issues in the Silesian Gau .
After the National Socialist " seizure of power " in the spring of 1933, Yorck von Wartenburg became regional group leader of the Federation of German East in Silesia . In addition, there were public offices as a district member for Oels, as a provincial member for Lower Silesia and - from November 1933 to March 1936 - as a member of the Reichstag for constituency 9 (Opole).
In the Reichstag election on March 29, 1936, he ran again for a mandate on the NSDAP nomination under number 1005, but received no more mandate.
Yorck von Wartenburg died in 1944 as a member of the Wehrmacht with the rank of major in combat operations in France.
literature
- Erich Stockhorst: 5000 people. Who had which role in the third Reich? Kiel 1985.
Web links
- Wolfgang Graf Yorck von Wartenburg in the database of members of the Reichstag
Individual evidence
- ^ Matthias Schmettow: Memorial book of the German nobility. 1967, p. 386.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Yorck von Wartenburg, Wolfgang Graf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Yorxk von Wartenburg, Hans Ludwig David Viktor Wolfgang Graf (full name); Yorck von Wartenburg, Wolf Graf (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (NSDAP), MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 9, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schleibitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 12, 1944 |
| Place of death | near Bonnal , Doubs , France |