, Baron Massenbach, of Berlin, Germany, & Madrid, Spain, Executive with Lorenz AG., educ. Neubeuern, Bavaria, & Oxford, England. (His Arbeitsbuch gives London School of Languages as the UK school, PvM gave Oxford or Cambridge.). He was posted in Berlin at the Alexander Caserna. He had been given staff jobs and so had come safely through the war until Jan 1945. On 11th Jan 1945, he was unable to see his wife, who had come from Ried to visit him, off back to Ried because "my company is detailed to do the political shooting" This must have been the shooting of Count von Moltke. "In the firing party of seven there was only one bullet" The rest were blank cartridges" He and his wife knew Moltke in Kreisau. ... "as distant relations of ours who also spoke English and, of course, were against Hitler"
Born: Landesberg-am-Lech, Bavaria, , 25th Jan 1911
Baptised: Landesberg-am-Lech, Bavaria, , 3rd Mar 1911