Manfred Karl Ernst Freiherr von Richthofen 
(24.5.1855 - 1939)
place of birth:  Gut Barzdorf, Silesia  (Bartoszcówek, Poland)


German General of Cavalry who prior to the War served as Garde du Corps regimental commander and aide-de-camp to Kaiser Wilhelm II. Upon mobilization, Generalleutnant von Richthofen commanded the 1st Cavalry Corps (HKK1) which was assigned to von Hausen's Third Army as they advanced through Belgium and on southward past the Marne. 

By November 1914, Richthofen's cavalry had been transferred to the Eastern Front. There his troops played a key role during the Battle of Lodz as von Scheffer-Boyadel's encircled XXV. Reserve Corps was able to punch through the Russian First and Second Armies and secure a costly victory for the German Ninth Army. As the War progressed, von Richthofen also had charge of the XXV. Reserve Corps and later Generalkommando 53. At war's end, von Richthofen surrendered the Berlin Palace without defending it, preferring rather to preserve the edifice and artwork therein.

Von Richthofen was the adoptive father and uncle of Second World War Luftwaffe Commander, Field Marshal Wolfram von Richthofen. He was also the great uncle of his more famous namesake, the Red Baron. Von Richthofen died in 1939 at his Bersdorf estate near Targoszyn, Poland.