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Nikolaus Ritter
German military photo of Ritter in 1940
Birth name
Nikolaus Adolph Fritz Ritter
Nickname(s)
Dr. Rantzau (code name)
Born
(1899-01-08)8 January 1899 Rheydt, German Empire
Died
9 April 1974(1974-04-09) (aged 75) Germany
Allegiance
German Empire
Weimar Germany
Nazi Germany
Service/branch
Abwehr (German Military Intelligence Service)
Years of service
1914–1919
1936–1944
Rank
Oberstleutnant (Lieutenant colonel)
Commands held
Chief of Air Intelligence in the Abwehr
Battles/wars
World War I
World War II
Relations
Mary Aurora Evans Ritter (spouse) Irmgard Klitzing (spouse) Katharine Francis Ritter Wallace (daughter) Nikolaus Haviland Ritter (son) Karin Ritter (daughter)
Nikolaus Ritter (8 January 1899 – 9 April 1974) is best known as the Chief of Air Intelligence in the Abwehr (German military intelligence) who led spyrings in the United Kingdom and the United States from 1936 to 1941.
NikolausRitter (8 January 1899 – 9 April 1974) is best known as the Chief of Air Intelligence in the Abwehr (German military intelligence) who led spyrings...
instructed his new chief of operations in the U.S., Col. NikolausRitter, to make contact. Ritter had been friends with Duquesne back in 1931 and the two...
territories. In mid-July 1941, Admiral Canaris ordered Luftwaffe Major NikolausRitter of Abwehr I to form a unit to infiltrate Egypt through the desert to...
Abwehr and assigned Hauptmann NikolausRitter of the Luftwaffe to be the chief of I. Luft (Chief of Air Intelligence). Ritter, who had lived in the United...
Rudolf NikolausRitter von Brudermann (from 1919 Rudolf Brudermann; 9 January 1851 Gyöngyös, Hungary – 21 January 1941 Kaltenleutgeben, Lower Austria...
Germany in 1938, Lang conferred with German military authorities (Oberst NikolausRitter of the Abwehr) and reconstructed sketches and plans of the confidential...
ISBN 9781526716149. pp.108-116 Ritter, Nikolaus (1972). Deckname Dr. Rantzau : die Aufzeichnungen d. NikolausRitter, Offizier im Geheimen Nachrichtendienst...
information on what he had seen in the German shipyards. In 1938, NikolausRitter, an Abwehr agent in Britain under the name "Dr Rantzau", made contact...
headquarters staff were: Commanding General: Gen. d. Inf. Oskar Ritter v. Xylander, Gen.-Lt. NikolausRitter v. Endres as Führer from 23 June 1918 Chief of General...
for September. The Abwehr office (Ast) Hamburg (Herbert Wichmann and NikolausRitter) became responsible for this so-called Operation Lena, in cooperation...
instructed his new chief of operations in the US, Col. NikolausRitter, to make contact with Duquesne. Ritter had been friends with Duquesne back in 1931, and...
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Abwehr commando operating in Libya under the command of Major NikolausRitter. After Ritter was injured in the first airborne attempt to deliver two spies...
Prince Nikolaus Wilhelm of Nassau (20 September 1832 – 17 September 1905), was the only son of William, Duke of Nassau by his second wife Princess Pauline...
Generalleutnant Horst Ritter und Edler von Oetinger 2nd Division 11th Division 82nd Reserve Division I Bavarian Corps – Generalleutnant NikolausRitter von Endres...
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Prime Minister Eugen von Knilling declared a state of emergency, and Gustav Ritter von Kahr was appointed Staatskomissar ("state commissioner"), with dictatorial...