Fritz Wuthenau, von

In memoriam

FRITZ VON WUTHENAU

Luftwaffe. 22nd May 1941. Stab II/ZG26. Messerschmitt Bf110E (3987). Sortie to Crete. Shot down attacking shipping off Crete and crashed in the Med off Crete. Oblt. Fritz von Wuthenau (FF, Adjutant) killed. Fw. Reinhard Immig (Bf) killed. Aircraft 3U+CC lost. 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 ).

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