Ludolf-Hermann von Alvensleben

Ludolf von Alvensleben (March 17, 1901 – March 17, 1970) was a SS functionary of Nazi Germany. He held positions of SS and Police Leader in occupied Poland and the Soviet Union.

Alvensleben was born in Halle in the Prussian Province of Saxony into the noble family von Alvensleben. His father was Prussian Major General Ludolf von Alvensleben (1844–1912), his mother Antoinette von Alvensleben (1870–1950), née Freiin von Ricou. His mother was the widow of Adolf Freiherr von Almey, by whom she had two children: Gerhard Freiherr von Almey and Maria-Louise Gräfin von Burgund. Ludolf's father had already retired from active service to administer the family's manor around Schochwitz castle, which had been inherited from Alvensleben's grandfather, the Prussian general Hermann von Alvensleben (1809–1887).

Alvensleben enlisted in the Prussian cadet corps in 1911, and in 1918 joined the 10th (Magdeburg) Hussars Regiment, but did not fight in World War I. He temporarily served in a paramilitary Freikorps unit in 1920. Between 1923 and July 1929, he was a member of the nationalist Stahlhelm organization.

After the First World War, Alvensleben graduated with a degree in agronomy. Upon the death of his father in December 1912, the family's manor at Schochwitz had become his own. In 1923 he also rented Storkau manor in the Altmark. He wed Melitta von Guaita on May 3, 1924; the marriage produced four children. He also later fathered a natural son raised as a Lebensborn child.

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