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Added: Jan 9, 1999. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 4333. Source citation. German World War I Military Figure. He is best remembered as the famous Red Baron German fighter pilot and was the top ace of World War I with 80 combat aerial victories to his credit.
Feb 6, 2018 · Baron Manfred von Richthofen—known simply as the ‘Red Baron’—was a famed fighter pilot in the German Air Force during World War I. Credited with 80 air combat victories, the Red Baron met...
Historic footage of Manfred von Richthofen posing and conversing with fellow pilots, circa 1917. Silent historical film of the 1918 funeral of Captain Baron von Richthofen provided by Australian Screen Online; Footage of the reburial of The Red Baron in 1925; Newspaper clippings about Manfred von Richthofen in the 20th Century Press Archives of ...
Apr 11, 2019 · Though at first Von Richthofen was buried at Bertangles, later he was reburied at the Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof of Fricourt. This silent film of 3 mins. 43 secs., shared by the Australian War Memorial, shows images of the wreck and the Red Baron's funeral at Bertangles.
Manfred “The Red Baron” von Richthofen. Birth. 2 May 1892. Wrocław, Miasto Wrocław, Dolnośląskie, Poland. Death. 21 Apr 1918 (aged 25) Morlancourt, Departement de la Somme, Picardie, France. Burial*. Invalidenfriedhof.
Today Manfred von Richthofen lies in the family grave in Wiesbaden’s Südfriedhof (South Cemetery) – next to his sister Lisl and his brother Bolko (who had died in 1971 and who brought Manfred’s body back from France in 1925). He has been in Wiesbaden since 1975, when the Red Baron made his last move.
The body of Manfred von Richthofen (the 'Red Baron') was transferred to the cemetery in 1925 from his original grave in France. During the Weimar Republic, high-ranking military personnel such as Hans von Seeckt continued to be buried in the cemetery, but approximately half the graves were gardened over in this period.
