Georg von Manteuffel-Szoege

Georg Baron von Manteuffel-Szoege (7 March 1889 – 8 June 1962) was a German politician.

Life and career Manteuffel-Szoege was born in Montreux (Switzerland) to Georg von Manteuffel (1862–1919) and Sophie née von Rüdiger (1866–1949). His Baltic-German family owned estates in a size of about 20,000 ha in the Baltic provinces of Russia including the manor of Katzdangen (Kazdanga, Latvia). His father was killed by Latvian Riflemen in 1919.

He visited school in Riga and studied national economics, History and Philosophy at the Universities of Halle and Heidelberg in 1909–1913. He passed his doctorate in 1913 and worked at the Kurländische Kreditverein (Mitau) in 1914/15, as a Secretary at the delegation of the Kurländische Ritterschaft in Berlin and for a Cooperative in Posen (Poznan). In 1918 he volunteered the Baltische Landeswehr and was a member of the Baltic National Committee of the United Baltic Duchy.

Manteuffel-Szoege was married to Maria née von Bonin (1918–26), Dorothea née von Behr-Ubja (1933–54) and Gretlies née von Schilling (1954–62). He died in Bad Godesberg.

Awards Federal Great Cross of Merit with star (1959)

Publications Geschichte des polnischen Volkes während seiner Unfreiheit 1742-1914, Berlin, Duncker&Humblot, 1950.