Leopold von Mildenstein

Who is Leopold von Mildenstein?

Leopold Itz, Edler von Mildenstein was an SS officer of the 1930s and 1940s who is remembered as a leader of the Nazi Party's support during the 1930s for the aims of Zionism.

He sometimes worked as a writer and used the pen name LIM. He was occasionally called an English "Baron" although his rank of Edler meant "nobleman" and has no exact English language equivalent, perhaps the nearest neighbor would be "Esquire."

After the Second World War Mildenstein continued to live in West Germany, where he joined the Free Democratic Party and was elected to its Press Committee. In 1956, he went to Egypt to work for a radio station, and after the capture of Adolf Eichmann in 1960 he claimed immunity as an intelligence agent of the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency, a claim which was neither confirmed nor denied. Nothing was heard of him after 1964, when he published a book on cocktails.