Procedure for the transfer and burial

Source: BArch RH 2/2288 (fol. 48) “In 1925, the Richthofen family decided to repatriate the body of Manfred von Richthofen. The body had been moved from the original burial site in Bertangles near the place of death to a cemetery for German casualties in Fricourt in 1921. The Reichswehr Ministry was finally able to convince the family not to bury Manfred von Richthofen’s body in the cemetery in Schweidnitz, where his father and younger brother Lothar already lay, but to agree to a burial in the Invalids’ Cemetery in Berlin. In 1975, he was reburied in what was now the family grave in Wiesbaden, as the grave at the Invalidenfriedhof was threatened by the relocation measures taking place there. The letter from the head of the military office, Major General Otto Hasse, to the chairman of the von Richthofen family association dated 7 November 1925, reproduced here, provides information about the transfer and burial process.”