Baron Friedrich Karl Johannes von Schlebrügge

Friedrich Karl Johannes von Schlebrügge, b. Oberglogau, Schlesien, 21 Nov. 1886, d. ... [GGT B 1916:819] m. Trelleborg 12 March 1935

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Colonel Baron Friedrich Karl Johannes von Schlebrügge (1886–1954), a German monarchist and cavalry officer in World War I who became a business man during the 1920s and 1930s in Berlin. During World War II, he was jailed by the Nazis for refusing to rejoin the military and for protecting Jewish friends. Birgit Holmquist married him in jail and used her Swedish national privilege to get him out; the couple fled to Mexico, where Nena and her brother Bjorn were born.