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((Infobox military person
| name=Heinrich Graf von Einsiedel
| birth_date=((birth date|df=yes|1921|7|26))
| death_date=((death date and age|df=yes|2007|7|18|1921|7|26))
| birth_place= [[Potsdam]], [[Province of Brandenburg]], [[Weimar Republic]]
| death_place=[[Munich]], [[Germany]]
| placeofburial=
| image=File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-P0926-309,_Sowjetunion,_Sitzung_des_NKFD.jpg
| alt=
| caption= Einsiedel can be seen second from the left at the NKFD council in 1943.
| nickname=
| allegiance=((flag|Nazi Germany)) (to 1942)<br />((flag|East Germany)) (to 1948)
| serviceyears=1940-42
| rank= [[File:WMacht H OF1b Lt02 Prop h.png|40px]] [[Leutnant]] 
| branch=[[Luftwaffe]]
| commands=
| unit=[[Jagdgeschwader 2]]<br /> [[Jagdgeschwader 3]]
| battles=[[World War II]]
| awards=[[German Cross in Gold]]
|relations= [[Otto von Bismarck]]<br />(Great-Grandfather)
| laterwork= Vice-President of the [[National Committee for a Free Germany]]<br /> Journalist of Tägliche Rundschau<br /> Member of the [[Social Democratic Party of Germany|SDP]]<br /> Candidate Member of [[Party of Democratic Socialism (Germany)|PDS]]
))

'''Heinrich [[Graf]] von Einsiedel''' (26 July 1921 – 18 July 2007) was a German [[journalist]], [[politician]] and [[World War II]] [[Luftwaffe]] ace.

==Early life==
Einsiedel, a great-grandson of [[Otto von Bismarck]], was born in [[Potsdam]], [[Province of Brandenburg]], as the youngest child to Herbert von Einsiedel (1885–1945) and Irene von Bismarck-Schönhausen (1888–1982). His parents were divorced in 1931.

==World War II==
In [[World War II]], Einsiedel served as a German fighter pilot, initially with [[Jagdgeschwader 2]] over the [[Western Front (World War II)|Western Front]], flying the [[Messerschmitt Bf 109]]. He took part in escort operations over the cruisers [[German battleship Scharnhorst|Scharnhorst]], [[German battleship Gneisenau|Gneisenau]] and [[German cruiser Prinz Eugen|Prinz Eugen]] as they made their '[[Channel Dash|Channel dash]]' from Brest to Germany in February 1942. Einsiedel claimed two of the six [[Fairey Swordfish]] of No. 825 Squadron Fleet Air Arm, who made an unsuccessful low-level torpedo attack.

In June 1942, Einsiedel was transferred to [[Jagdgeschwader 3]] on the [[Eastern Front (World War II)|Russian Front]] for the forthcoming offensive against [[Stalingrad]]. He was awarded the German Cross in Gold.<ref>Patzwall, Klaus D. and Scherzer, Veit. ''Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941 - 1945. Geschichte und Inhaber. Band II''. Norderstedt, Germany: Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, 2001. ((ISBN|3-931533-45-X))</ref>

On 30 August 1942, during combat with Russian ''Ratas'', he was forced to land, was captured by Russian ground forces and became a [[prisoner-of-war]] in the [[Soviet Union]].

He became a founding member, vice-president and commissary of propaganda of the [[National Committee for a Free Germany]].<ref>[http://einestages.spiegel.de/static/topicalbumbackground/3750/das_dilemma_des_genossen_graf.html spiegel.de Das Dilemma des Genossen Graf (German)]</ref>

===Post-war Soviet Zone===
Released after the war, Einsiedel initially worked for the ''Tägliche Rundschau'', the German newspaper of the [[Soviet Military Administration in Germany]] but became increasingly disillusioned with the Soviet regime after he experienced first-hand corruption and inefficiency.((Citation needed |date= July 2009)) He was given permission to visit [[West Berlin]] on behalf of the [[NKVD]] for intelligence-gathering purposes. While meeting his mother, he was arrested by US Forces and sentenced by an American court for spying and having forged documents. He was released on appeal. Despite a highly publicised press conference back in the East, he was by now seen as a liability by the Soviet authorities.((Citation needed |date= July 2009))

==West Germany==
He thus moved to [[West Germany]] in late 1948, where he worked as a translator, scriptwriter and journalist. The governing [[Socialist Unity Party of Germany|Socialist Unity Party of East Germany]] acknowledged Einsiedel as a bona fide anti-fascist but a [[petit bourgeois]] who, "as soon as the class war became acute", had wavered and switched political camps for his own self-interests.((Citation needed |date= July 2009))

Einsiedel wrote for the liberal [[Hamburg]] weekly, ''[[Die Zeit]]''. He also wrote ''The Shadow of Stalingrad: Being the Diary of Temptation'' in 1953, which attempted to tell his complex story. Eventually, Einsiedel joined the film industry as a scriptwriter and a film soundtrack dubber. He also played the role of a pilot in the drama ''The Last Bridge'' (1953) with his first wife, [[Barbara Rütting]].

He twice won the German bridge championship and played in the bridge World Cup.

Einsiedel was a member of the [[Social Democratic Party of Germany]] from 1957 to 1992 and was elected as a member of the [[German Bundestag]] as a candidate of the [[Party of Democratic Socialism (Germany)|Party of Democratic Socialism]] (PDS) from 1994 to 1998.

Einsiedel died in [[Munich]] on 18 July 2007, aged 85.

==Awards==
* [[German Cross]] in Gold as ''[[Leutnant]]'' on 25 August 1942.

== Literature ==
* Heinrich Graf von Einsiedel, Joachim Wieder: ''Stalingrad und die Verantwortung des Soldaten'', ((ISBN|3-7766-1778-0)) (German)
* Heinrich Graf von Einsiedel: ''Tagebuch der Versuchung. 1942 – 1950'', 1950; Ullstein Paperback (1985): ((ISBN|3-548-33046-0)) (German)
* Heinrich Graf von Einsiedel: ''Der Überfall'', Hoffmann und Campe 1984, ((ISBN|3-455-08677-2)) (German)

==Notes==
((German title|Graf))

==References==
((Reflist|30em))

==External links==
* ((PM20|FID=pe/004588))

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