Ernst Graf zu Reventlow

Also known as Ernst Christian Einar Ludvig Detlev Reventlow, Ernst Reventlow, Count Ernst Reventlow

Ernst Christian Einar Ludvig Detlev, Graf zu Reventlow was a German naval officer, journalist and Nazi politician. A conservative aristocrat and a German nationalist, he was a member of several right-wing parties but also was attracted to National Bolshevism before transferring his allegiance to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in 1927, becoming a member of its Strasserist wing. He was a long-serving deputy in the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany from 1924 until his death.

Occupation: journalist, politician, writer, naval officer
Position held: member of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic, member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany
Citizenship: German Reich
Born: August 18, 1869
Died: November 21, 1943

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Ludwig Reventlowfather Emilie Reventlowmother Ludwig Reventlowsibling Franziska zu Reventlowsibling

Nazi Partypolitical party German Völkisch Freedom Partypolitical party National Socialist Freedom Movementpolitical party member of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republicposition held member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germanyposition held German Reichcountry of citizenship

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Ernst Christian Einar Ludvig Detlev, Graf zu Reventlow (18 August 1869 – 21 November 1943) was a German naval officer, journalist and Nazi politician. Early life Ernst Christian Einar Ludvig Detlev, Graf (Count) zu Reventlow was born at Husum, Schleswig-Holstein, the son of Ludvig Christian Detlev Frederik, Graf zu Reventlow (6 January 1824 - 14 June 1893), a Danish nobleman, and Emilie Julie Anna Louise Rantzau (19 April 1834 - 19 November 1905). His younger sister was Fanny zu Reventlow (1871-1918), the "Bohemian Countess" of Schwabing. Reventlow embarked upon a career in the German Imperial Navy, reaching the rank of lieutenant commander, before his marriage to a Frenchwoman, Marie-Gabrielle-Blanche d'Allemont [de Broutillot] (19 September 1873 - 15 April 1937), forced him to resign his commission. Reventlow married Blanche on 14 March 1895 in Altona, Hamburg, Germany. He became a free-lance writer on naval issues, and later general politics. First World War

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Also known as Ernst Christian Einar Ludvig Detlev Reventlow, Ernst Reventlow, Count Ernst Reventlow

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