Bolko von Richthofen
Deceased Person
1899 – 1983
Who was Bolko von Richthofen?
Bolko von Richthofen was a German archaeologist and a distant relative of the family of Manfred von Richthofen, the "Red Baron". He is sometimes confused with his distant cousin and namesake, Karl Bolko von Richthofen – the youngest brother of the fighter ace.
Richthofen was born in Mertschütz, Silesia, and fought in World War I. After the war ended, he participated as a Freikorps volunteer during the Silesian Uprisings. In the early post-war period he entered tertiary studies and quickly became an eminent scholar.
He is well known for a bitter dispute about the ethnicity of the Lusatian and Pomeranian cultures with the Polish archaeologist Józef Kostrzewski.
In 1964 he received the Bundesverdienstkreuz. He died in Seehausen am Staffelsee, Bavaria.
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- Born
- Sep 13, 1899
- Also known as
- Рихтгофен, Болько фон
- Died
- Mar 18, 1983
Seehausen am Staffelsee
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on July 23, 2013
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