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Klaus von Bismarck
Klaus von Bismarck, 11 July 1961
Born
(1912-03-06)6 March 1912
Jarchlin, German Empire
Died
22 May 1997(1997-05-22) (aged 85)
Hamburg, Germany
Organisation(s)
Westdeutscher Rundfunk German Evangelical Church Assembly
Awards
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Klaus von Bismarck (6 March 1912 – 22 May 1997) was the Director General of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk (West German Broadcasting) from 1961 to 1976, and the president of the ARD broadcasting association in 1963-1964. He was also the president of the German Evangelical Church Assembly from 1977 to 1979 and a member of its presidium from 1950 to 1995, as well as president of the Goethe-Institut from 1977 to 1989.
During World War II, Bismarck served as an officer in the Wehrmacht. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. According to his memoirs, published in 1992, while serving as an adjutant on the Russian front in 1941 he refused to obey Hitler's Commissar Order to execute all captured Communist political commissars attached to the Soviet Army.
He was a great-great nephew of German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, and was the son of Gottfried von Bismarck (1881–1928). Klaus von Bismarck was the last owner of the family's estates in formerly German Farther Pomerania, including Kniephof (now Konarzewo, Poland), where Otto von Bismarck spent his childhood.[1]
Bismarck received an honorary Doctor of Theology degree (Dr. h. c. theol.) from the University of Münster. He was one of the eight signatories of the Memorandum of Tübingen which called for the recognition of the Oder-Neiße line as the official border between Germany and Poland and spoke against a possible nuclear armament of West Germany.[2][3]
^Hesekiel, George (1873). Das Buch vom Fürsten Bismarck (in German). Velhagen & Klasing. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
^Dönhoff, Marion (2 March 1962). "Lobbyisten der Vernunft" [Lobbyists of reason]. Die Zeit (in German). Retrieved 17 November 2018.
^"Das Memorandum der Acht" [The Memorandum of the eight]. Die Zeit (in German). 2 March 1962. Retrieved 17 November 2018.
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