Bolko von Richthofen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Bolko von Richthofen

German prehistorian

Date of Birth: 13-Sep-1899

Place of Birth: Mierczyce, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 18-Mar-1983

Profession: politician, university teacher, archaeologist, anthropologist, prehistorian

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Bolko von Richthofen (September 13, 1899 – March 18, 1983) was a German archaeologist and a distant relative of the family of Manfred von Richthofen, the "Red Baron".
He is sometimes confused with his distant cousin and namesake, Karl Bolko von Richthofen (1903–1971) – the youngest brother of the fighter ace. Richthofen was born in Mertschütz (Polish Mierczyce), Silesia, and fought in World War I.
After the war ended, he participated as a Freikorps volunteer during the Silesian Uprisings.
In the early post-war period he entered tertiary studies and quickly became an eminent scholar. Member of the NSDAP from 1933, he wrote several antisemitic and anti-Slavic works.
During World War II he worked in antisemitic organisation Ahnenerbe. He is well known for a bitter dispute about the ethnicity of the Lusatian and Pomeranian cultures with the Polish archaeologist Józef Kostrzewski. In 1964 he received the Bundesverdienstkreuz.
He died in Seehausen am Staffelsee, Bavaria.