Witzendorff, BodoViktor Adolf Wilhelm von, born 29-08-1876 in Schwerin,
the son of the Mecklenburg-Schwerin Chamber Director Ernst Hieronymus von Witzendorff (1828–1896) and his wife Elisabeth Sidonie Cornelie, born Baroness von Maltzahn (1850–1927). Bodo had four siblings. He entered the Army Service as a Fähnrich in the 89th Grenadier Regiment on 01-12-1894, age 18. Bodo was in the fields of the first war and wounded
in battle from 19-10-1915 until 20-06-1916 and recovered he came with the Replacement Battalion of the 71st Infantry Regiment. He ended the war as a Major and remained in the new 100.000 Reichsweht
until 31-01-1933 as he retired from the Service, meanwhile a Generalleutnant. Hauptman von Witzendorff married his fiancée Carola Elisabeth Ina Auguste Julie Anna, born von Rantzau (1887–1940) on 13-12-1915 in Erfurt. Her brother was Generalleutnant Heino von Rantzau.
The marriage remained childless. The couple rests in a communal grave (No. 107) in Berlin’s south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf. Heino von Rantzau was captured by American troops in April 1945, and died, age 52 in captivity on 02-11-1946. Von Witzendorff joined Goering’s Luftwaffe
from 01-12-1933 as a civil employee. He was the Department Chief in the Luftwaffe Personnel Office RLM









Death and burial ground of Witzendorff, Bodo Viktor Adolf Wilhelm von.





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