G%C3%BCnther von Reibnitz

Baron Gnther Hubertus von Reibnitz was a cavalry officer of the German Empire during the First World War. He joined the Nazi Party in 1930 and was a member of the SS Cavalry Corps.

Gnther von Reibnitz was descended from an old Silesian family and was the son of Baron Hans Egon von Reibnitz , who married Baroness Ida von Eickstedt onFebruary 1887 in Gieraltowitz, Upper Silesia. Reibnitz was born onSeptember 1894 at Mistitz in the Prussian province of Silesia, now called Miejsce Odrzaskie, having since become part of Poland. He was educated at the Royal Prussian Military Academy at BerlinLichterfelde, from which he graduated at the end of 1913. In March 1914 he was commissioned as an ensign into the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg 2nd Regiment of Dragoons, No. 18, in Parchim. In August 1914, soon after the beginning of the First World War he was severely wounded and captured, remaining a prisoner of war of the French for most of the duration of the war. OnSeptember 1918, shortly before Reibnitz was released in exchange for a French officer, his father died in Berlin. After the war, in the leadup to the plebiscite to resolve competing German and Polish terr

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