Dietrich Bodelschwingh, von

Luftwaffe. 7th April 1941. 3/StG77. Junkers Ju87B (0493). Operational sortie. Mid-air Collision with Ju87 (5186) on return at Arad a/f, Romania, 12.30pm. Oblt. Dietrich von Bodelschwingh (FF) killed. Lt. Hugo-Anton Ullhofen (Bf) killed. (Perhaps the pilot of the other Ju87, as Pawel listed as Bf). Aircraft a write-off. It is unclear if he is still buried at Arad, or if he has been transferred to another cemetery? Von: The abolition of the monarchies in Germany and Austria in 1919 meant that neither state has a privileged nobility, and both have exclusively republican governments. In Germany, this means that legally  von  simply became an ordinary part of the surnames of the people who used it. There are no longer any legal privileges or constraints associated with this naming convention. According to German alphabetical sorting, people with  von  in their surnames – of noble or non-noble descent alike – are listed under the rest of their names (e.g., the economist Ludwig von Mises wou