Hans Ludwig David Viktor Wolfgang ("Wolf") Graf Yorck von Wartenburg (9 September 1899 in Schleibitz, Landkreis Oels - 12 September 1944 at Bonnal/Doubs, France) was a German politician for the Nazi Party (NSDAP).[1]
"Wolf" Yorck von Wartenburg | |
Office: | Nazi district leader of Oels |
Term Start: | 1930 |
Term End: | 1933 |
Birth Date: | 1899 |
Birth Place: | Schleibitz, Germany |
Death Date: | 1944 |
Death Place: | Bonnal, France |
Office1: | Member of Provincial parliament for Lower Silesia, representing Opole |
Term1: | November, 1933–March, 1936 |
He joined the Nazi Party on 1 July 1930 (Membership number 269 306), in which he first took over the duties of a district leader in Oels.
After the Nazis seized power in 1933, he was a group leader of the German Federation of East Silesia. He served as a district council member for Oels, and as a provincial member of parliament for Lower Silesia from November 1933 to March 1936, representing the constituency of Opole.
In the general election on 29 March 1936 he again ran for a seat but received no mandate.
Major Wolfgang Yorck von Wartenberg died in 1944 as a member of the German armed forces during major combat operations in France.