Date of birth:

June 9th, 1920 (Kontopp/Mecklenburg west Pomerania, Germany)

Date of death:

August 6th, 1994 (Gauting/Bavaria, Germany)

Nationality:

German (1933-1945, Third Reich)

Falk-Eberhardt von Maltzahn zu Wartenberg und Penzlin grew up on the Manor House " Ganschendorf". In 1939, he joined the Army and was placed with the Kavallerie. In 1943 he was heavily wounded in Stalingrad and later managed to escape from Soviet Imprisonment.
After the war he moved to Bavaria and married Elisabeth Gräfin von Maltzan, a widow with three children. They had a daughter together. In 1966 he married Sigrid von Wietersheim, with whom he had a son.

1939: Leutnant and Zugführer, 3./ Reiter-Regiment 21
24.08.1942: promoted to Oberleutnant
20.10.1942: transferred from Panzer-Regiment 24 to Panzertruppenschule - Wünsdorf for a training course
Ordonnanz-Offizier, I./ Panzer-Regiment 24

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• Photo 1: Stéphane Kayser
• - PATZWALL, K. & SCHERZER, V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001.
  - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
  - Andreas-Falk v. Maltzan (son)