Bio of Oberstleutnant Wolf-Werner von der Schulenburg (1899-1944)

 

Original color portrait of Wolf-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg, taken in 1943.

Full nama: Wolf-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg
Nickname: unknown
Date of Birth: 14 September 1899 at Bad Muskau, Sachsen (Germany)
Date of Death: 14 July 1944 at Saint James, Normandy (France)
NSDAP Number: unknown
SS Number: unknown
Academic Title: unknown
Family Member: Son of the Chef des Generalstabes der Heeresgruppe Kronprinz, Friedrich Graf von der Schulenburg (1865-1939), Pour le Mérite 24 April 1917
Physical Feature: unknown

Beförderungen (Promotion):
20.08.1917 Gefreiter
26.09.1917 Unteroffizier
25.07.1918 Fähnrich
01.09.1918 Leutnant
01.04.1940 Oberleutnant d.R.z.V. (138) mit RDA vom 01.11.1928
01.11.1940 Hauptmann z.V. (203/E); 1942 RDA verbessert (357/E) auf 01.07.1939
19.12.1941 Major z.V. (386/E) m.W vom 01.09.1942 und RDA vom 01.09.1942
09.11.1942 SA-Brigadeführer
27.05.1944 Major z.V. (674/D), verbessertes RDA vom 01.12.1941
23.07.1944 Oberstleutnant z.V. (716/7) m.W. und RDA vom 01.07.1944

Karriere (Career):
00.00.1917 Kriegsfreiwilliger, schwer verwundet (heavy injured)
15.08.1939 Einberufung, Ordonnanzoffizier im Fallschirm-Jäger-Regiment 1
20.02.1942 temporarily charged with leadership I. / FJR 1
20.02.1944 Kommandeur I. Bataillon / Fallschirm-Jäger-Regiment 1
15.11.1943 temporarily charged with command Fallschirm-Jäger-Regiment 1
mid 01.44 again temporarily charged with command I. / FJR 1
21.04.1944 Kommandeur Fallschirm-Jäger-Regiment 13 (5. FJD)

Orden und Ehrenzeichen (Medals and Decorations):
23.05.1940 Eisernes Kreuz II.Klasse
23.05.1940 Eisernes Kreuz I.Klasse
01.10.1942 Erdkampfabzeichen der Luftwaffe
20.05.1943 Ärmelband Kreta
20.06.1943 Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes, as Major and Kommandeur I.Bataillon / Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 1 / 1.Fallschirmjäger-Division / XIV.Armeekorps / 10.Armee

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* Fought on Western Front in 1917-1918; Ordnance officer with Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 1 in Poland (1939); Served in Holland and Crete, later in Russia.Commanded I./Fsch.Jäg.Rgt 1 (1942-1944). Awarded Ritterkreuz in June 1943 because of his battalion's efforts in unison with the 78.Sturm-Division near Orel; Then served at Cassino.In April 194; took over command of Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 13 in the West; Killed in action in Normandy (1944).
* On 12.09.1943 the 1. Fallschirm-Jäger-Division shot at least 13 non-combatants in La Baretta near Cannae. The prosecuting attorney (Cologne 1967 - 1972) found no accused interpreting the killing as permissible reprisal.
* On 21.11.1943 the unit of Graf von der Schulenburg is said to have beastly killed 112 non-combatants in Limmario (31 children, 50 women).
* In November 1943 1. Fallschirm-Jäger-Division executed also 13 civilians not having leaved the “Kampfzone“ of Pietransieri / community of Roccaraso, 15 km NO of Alfedena.
* Wolf-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg was killed in action on July 14th, 1944 as Kommandeur Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 13. He died fighting in the ”Kampfverband 17. SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Division Götz von Berlichingen”. His grave is in Dinard (Bretagne). He was posthumously promoted to Oberstleutnant.

Wolf-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg (born September 14, 1899 in Muskau, † July 14, 1944 at Saint-James, France) was a German administrative lawyer, businessman, head of the foreign department of the Reich Sports Leader, Wehrmacht officer and SA-Brigadeführer.

Wolf-Werner von der Schulenburg came from a noble family in the Altmark. He was the second eldest son of the Prussian general and later NSDAP member of the Reichstag, Friedrich Bernhard Graf von der Schulenburg (1865–1939) and Freda-Marie Countess von der Schulenburg, née Countess von Arnim (1873–1939), a niece (later also a stepdaughter) ) of the Muskau landlord Count Traugott Hermann von Arnim-Muskau. He had four siblings, including the younger brother Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg and the younger sister Tisa von der Schulenburg. Already at an early stage, he embarked on a career in the military and then a civil servant. After taking part in the First World War as a reserve officer, Graf Schulenburg studied law at the Georg-August University in Göttingen. He became active in the Corps Saxonia Göttingen in September 1919. In the summer semester of 1920 he was senior in the corps. On November 1, 1930, he joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party and on February 1, 1931, he joined the Sturmabteilung.

Until 1933 he was a businessman in Brazil and Berlin and then became a consultant at the Reich Sports Office. In 1936 he became personal advisor and Gau leader of the Gaues Abroad of the German Reichsbund for physical exercises, a little later head of the foreign department and the chief office of the Reichssportführer Hans von Tschammer und Osten, who advised him and represented him on foreign policy issues. In the meantime director of the government, he was promoted to captain at the beginning of the war, later to major and on November 9, 1942 to SA-Brigadeführer. For his services he was awarded the Ritterkreuz on June 20, 1943. On November 15, 1943 he became the commander (i. V.) of the Parachute Jäger Regiment 1 of the 1st Parachute Division. He fell in 1944 as commander of the 13th Paratrooper Regiment in the battle of Saint-Lô. Posthumously Graf von der Schulenburg was appointed Oberstleutnant der Reserve.

He was married to Gisela, née Freiin von Stralenheim.

Source :
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