Ernst Graf Strachwitz
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1919 –
Who is Ernst Graf Strachwitz?
Ernst Graf Strachwitz von Groß Zauche und Camminetz was a German Army officer, Austrian politician and lawyer.
Strachwitz was born and raised in Wöbling in the municipality Laßnitzhöhe in Styria.
Strachwitz joined the Gebirgsjäger in 1938, fought as a paratrooper at the Battle of Narvik, on the Western Front and was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 26 November 1944, while serving in Finland. He finished the war as Major and bataillon commander with the 2nd Mountain Division.
After the War he became a lawyer in Vienna, went into politics and served as a member of the National Council of Austria from 1949 to 1953 for the Austrian People's Party.
He was a distant nephew of Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz von Gross-Zauche und Camminetz.
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