Klaus von Bismarck
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Klaus von Bismarck (6 March 1912 – 22 May 1997) was the Director General of the
During World War II, Bismarck served as an officer in the Wehrmacht. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. According to his memoirs, published in 1992, while serving as an adjutant on the Russian front in 1941 he refused to obey Hitler's Commissar Order to execute all captured Communist political commissars attached to the Soviet Army.
He was a great-great nephew of German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, and was the son of Gottfried von Bismarck (1881–1928). Klaus von Bismarck was the last owner of the family's estates in formerly German Farther Pomerania, including Kniephof (now Konarzewo, Poland), where Otto von Bismarck spent his childhood.[1]
Bismarck received an
Awards and decorations
- Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class (9 October 1939) & 1st Class (18 June 1940)[4]
- Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
- Knight's Cross on 31 December 1941 as Oberleutnant and leader of the II./Infanterie-Regiment 4[5]
- 669th Oak Leaves on 26 November 1944 as Major and commander of Grenadier-Regiment 4[6]
- Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (3 October 1973)[4]
- Grand Federal Cross of Merit with Star (1982)
- Grand Federal Cross of Merit with Star and Sash (2 June 1989)
- Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (1989)
References
Citations
- ^ Hesekiel, George (1873). Das Buch vom Fürsten Bismarck (in German). Velhagen & Klasing. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
- ^ Dönhoff, Marion (2 March 1962). "Lobbyisten der Vernunft" [Lobbyists of reason]. Die Zeit (in German). Retrieved 17 November 2018.
- ^ "Das Memorandum der Acht" [The Memorandum of the eight]. Die Zeit (in German). 2 March 1962. Retrieved 17 November 2018.
- ^ a b Thomas & Wegmann 1992, p. 69.
- ^ Fellgiebel 2000, p. 114.
- ^ Fellgiebel 2000, p. 78.
Bibliography
- ISBN 978-3-7909-0284-6.
- Thomas, Franz; Wegmann, Günter (1992). Die Ritterkreuzträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht 1939–1945 Teil III: Infanterie Band 2: Bi–Bo [The Knight's Cross Bearers of the German Wehrmacht 1939–1945 Part III: Infantry Volume 2: Bi–Bo] (in German). Osnabrück, Germany: Biblio-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-7648-1734-3.
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