Hans Adalbert Schlettow | |
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 Hans Adalbert Schlettow | |
| Born | 11 June 1888 |
| Died | 30 April 1945 (aged 56) |
| Cause of death | Air raid |
| Nationality | German |
| Other names | Hans Adelbert Droescher von Schlettow |
| Years active | 1917-1945 |
Hans Adalbert Schlettow (11 June 1888 – 30 April 1945) was a German film actor. Schlettow appeared in around a hundred and sixty films during his career, the majority during the silent era. Among his best-known film roles was Hagen von Tronje in Fritz Lang's film classic Die Nibelungen (1924). In 1929 he starred in the British director Anthony Asquith's film A Cottage on Dartmoor.[1]
He was a member of the Militant League for German Culture and the National Socialist Factory Cell Organization. Schlettow died in the Battle of Berlin on the same day Adolf Hitler committed suicide.
- ^ Ryall p.170