Bock von Wülfingen, Ferdinand.

Bock von Wülfingen, Ferdinand, born on 10-06-1883 in Neu Vorwerk, Lübeck,   . Ferdinand came from the Lower Saxonian nobility bock of Wülfingen and the son of Karl Bock von Wülfingen (1839-1919). Ferdinand entered the Army on 15-01-1901 in the Königliche Pruissische Army, age 17. As a Regiment Adjutant he was on the front of the first World War and was rewarded with the wounded decoration  and both the Iron Crosses . Bock von Wülfingen remained in the 100.000 men Reichswehr  and as the new Reichswehr grew under the Nazis regime, he was promoted to Generalmajor, on 01-02-1935. He became Generalleutnant on 01-04-1937 and Military Replacement Inspector of Berlin, Josef Goebbels (did you know)

     was the Gauleiter of Berlin, until 30-06-1943. The ashes of Goebbels and his wife Magda  and children, are scattered in the river Ehle from the Pig Bridge, near Biederitz. Bock von Wülfingen wasn’t a battlefield warrior, like in the first War and was retired on 30-06-1943 at the age of 60, not useful anymore. Ferdinand Bock von Wülfingen was also a permanent representative of the President of the Reichskriegsgericht with jurist Roland Freisler, a member of the national court of justice.

He was also the ruler of the Order of St. John.

 Bock von Wülfingen retired after the war, until his death on 22-05-1956, in the little town Miltenberg. Generalleutnant Ferdinand Bock von Wülfingen is, at the age of 72, buried on the cemetery of Miltenberg.