Heinrich Graf von Einsiedel

Heinrich Graf von Einsiedel (July 26, 1921 – July 18, 2007) was a German journalist and politician.

Einsiedel, a great-grandson of Otto von Bismarck, was born in Potsdam, Province of Brandenburg, as the youngest child to Herbert von Einsiedel (1885-1945) and Irene von Bismarck-Schönhausen (1888-1982). His parents were divorced in 1931.

Throughout World War II Einsiedel served as a German fighter pilot and became a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union, where he was a founding member of the National Committee for a Free Germany. In June 1947 he removed to the Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany, but moved to western Germany in the end of 1948, where he worked as a translator, script-writer and journalist.

Einsiedel was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany from 1957 until 1992 and was elected as a member of the German Bundestag as a candidate of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) from 1994 until 1998.

Einsiedel died in Munich.

Awards

* German Cross in Gold as "Leutnant" on 25 August 1942

Notes

Literature

* Heinrich Graf von Einsiedel, Joachim Wieder: "Stalingrad und die Verantwortung des Soldaten", ISBN 3776617780 (German)
* Heinrich Graf von Einsiedel: "Tagebuch der Versuchung. 1942 - 1950", 1950; als Ullstein TB (1985): ISBN 3548330460 (German)
* Heinrich Graf von Einsiedel: "Der Überfall", Hoffmann und Campe 1984, ISBN 3455086772 (German)

References

* Patzwall, Klaus D. and Scherzer, Veit. "Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941 - 1945 Geschichte und Inhaber Band II". Norderstedt, Germany: Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, 2001. ISBN 3-931533-45-X.