Eduard Kuczkowski, von

Luftwaffe, 4/KGr.z.b.V.40, Gefreiter. Passenger onboard Junkers Ju52 which crashed near Dzep. The VDK say "Eduard von Kuczkowski has not yet been transferred to a military cemetery set up by the Volksbund. According to the information available to us, his grave is still in the following place: Dzep - Serbia". 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 would have been found under  M  rather than  V ).