Wilfried Strik-Strikfeldt
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Wilfried Karl Strik-Strikfeldt (Russian: Вильфрид Карлович Штрик-Штрикфельдт; 1899 – 7 September 1977) was a Baltic German soldier.
Strik-Strikfeldt was born in Riga and attended a school in St. Petersburg. He volunteered to fight in the Russian Imperial Army during World War I. During the Russian Civil War he fought the Bolsheviks in the Baltic countries and Ingria, as a supporter of the White movement.
In the early 1920s Strik-Strikfeldt was involved in Fridtjof Nansen's activities to alleviate the Great Famine in Russia. Between 1924 and 1939 he represented the interests of British and German companies in Latvia. At the outbreak of World War II he joined the Wehrmacht as an interpreter and served as a middleman between the Germans and — among others — ex-Communist and former Soviet Army General Andrey Vlasov, who would later become chairman of the anticommunist German-sponsored Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia.
Strik-Strikfeldt died in Oberstaufen. His memoirs, an important source regarding the Russian Liberation Movement and General Vlasov, were published in 1970.
[edit] Literature
- Strik-Strikfeldt, W. Against Stalin and Hitler: Memoir of the Russian Liberation Movement, 1941-1945. — NY: Day, 1970. ISBN 0381981851 ISBN 978-0381981853
