Ludolf von Alvensleben

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ludolf-Hermann Emmanuel Georg Kurt Werner von Alvensleben (March 17, 1901 March 17, 1970) was a Nazi official in the rank of SS-Gruppenführer and Major General of the Police. Alvensleben was born in Halle to the lower German noble family von Alvensleben. His father was a Prussian Major General Ludolf von Alvensleben, his mother, Antoinette von Alvensleben, née Freiin von Ricou. Alvensleben belonged to the Prussian cadet corps since 1911, and in 1918 he joined the Hussar regiment and fought during World War I. Between 1923 and July 1929, he belonged to the nationalist paramilitary organization Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten. After the war, Alvensleben graduated with a degree in Agriculture. After the death of his father in December 1912, the family's Schochwitz manor, which had been inherited from Alvensleben's grandfather, the Prussian general Hermann von Alvensleben, became his own. He wed on May 3, 1924, the marriage produced four children. He also later fathered illegitimate children under orders from Nazi officials to procure a master race.... Mehr