Hans Adalbert Schlettow

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. In 1929 he starred in the British director Anthony Asquith's film A Cottage on Dartmoor.

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.

Selected filmography

Und wenn ich lieb' nimm dich in acht...! (1917) Der breite Weg (1917) Die Gespensterstunde (1917) Klosterfriede (1917) When the Heart Burns with Hate (1917) Vier Finger (1919) The White Roses of Ravensberg (1919) as Count Ludwig Erlenstein Hiob (1919) Countess Doddy (1919) Dias Geheimnis der alten Truhe Algol (1920) as Peter Hell The Love of a Thief (1920) as Bandit Carlo Dancer of Death (1920) Mary Tudor (1920) as Fabiano Fabiani The Women of Gnadenstein (1921) as Fred Hagen The Golden Plague (1921) as Dr. Jonas Fjeld The White Death (1921) as the groom Don Juan (1922) as Don Juan The Circle of Death (1922) as Konstantin Chrenow On the Red Cliff (1922) as Geert Rantsau The Shadows of That Night (1922) as George Green The Love Nest (1922) Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922) as Georg the Chauffeur What Belongs to Darkness (1922) as Prisoner Die Nibelungen (1924) as Hagen of Tronje Malva (1924) as Tadzio Op Hoop van Zegen (1924) as Geert In the Name of the Kaisers (1925) as Lieutenant Boris If Only It Weren't Love (1925) Frisian Blood (1925) as Klaus Detlefsen Ship in Distress (1925) as Pieter Hansen The Last Horse Carriage in Berlin (1926) as Erich Flottmann The Flames Lie (1926) as Konrad Birkinger Lace (1926) as the police commissioner His Toughest Case (1926) as Steppke/Count Strachowsky German Hearts on the German Rhine (1926) The Owl (1927) My Heidelberg, I Can Not Forget You (1927) as Fritz Hansen The Last Waltz (1927) as Prince Alexis Queen Louise (1927) as Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia The Bordellos of Algiers (1927) as Mira's brother Klettermaxe (1927) Aftermath (1927) as the milice leader The Woman with the World Record (1927) as Tom Wobber the manager Thérèse Raquin (1928) as Laurent LeClaire Volga Volga (1928) as Stenka Rasin Song (1928) as Laurent LeClaire Guilty (1928) as Brothel-keeper Peter Cornelius When the Mother and the Daughter (1928) A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929) as Harry Devotion (1929) as the man The Right of the Unborn (1929) as Rolf Stürmer Prisoner Number Seven (1929) as Jenõ The Immortal Vagabond (1930) as Franz Lechner The Great Longing (1930) as himself It Happens Every Day (1930) A Girl from the Reeperbahn (1930) as Uwe Bull Troika (1930) as Boris A Woman Branded (1931) as Administrator Bodde The Schlemihl (1931) as Jack Brillant The Mad Bomberg (1932) as Baron Giesbert von Bomberg Sacred Waters (1932) as Sepp Blattrer The Naked Truth (1932) Chauffeur Antoinette (1932) as William P. Harrison Marshal Forwards (1932) as Cavalry Master von Oppen Secret of the Blue Room (1932) as Marine Officer Axel Brinck The Page from the Dalmasse Hotel (1933) as Count Tarvagna Refugees (1933) as the Siberian The Roberts Case (1933) as Reimann The Hunter from Kurpfalz (1933) as Baron Axel von Hollperg, Gutsherr The Hymn of Leuthen (1933) as Duke Moritz of Dessau Hubertus Castle (1934) as Schipper A Woman With Power of Attorney (1934) as Veidt At the End of the World (1934) as Le Bucheron Financial Opportunists (1934), as Dr. Lehmann You Are Adorable, Rosmarie (1934) as Sepp Holiday From Myself (1934) as Barthel The Private Life of Louis XIV (1935) as the commander of French troops in Heidelberg Regine (1935) as Robert Hundred Days (1935) as Davout The Schimeck Family (1935) as Franz Baumann Don't Lose Heart, Suzanne! (1935) as the detective The Haunted Castle (1936) as Kriminalassistent Bornemann The Empress's Favourite (1936) as Baron Axhausen Stjenka Rasin (1936) as Stjenka Rasin The Hunter of Fall (1936) as Huisen Blasi Yvette (1938) as Prince Kravalow Nights in Andalusia (1938) as Sergeant Garcia Women for Golden Hill (1938) as Thomas Trench Anton the Last (1939) as Franz Lugauer Stars of Variety (1939) as Tom Congo Express (1939) as André Wibbel the Tailor (1939) as Heubes Wunschkonzert (1940) as Kramer The Vulture Wally (1940) as Leander Rosenbauer Between Hamburg and Haiti (1940) Left of the Isar, Right of the Spree (1940) as Baron Wickinger Ohm Krüger (1941) as Commandant de Wett Much Ado About Nixi (1942) as the gendarm The Big Number (1943) as Basto-Bastelmeyer My Summer Companion (1943) as Kutscher Prüschke Melusine (1944) as Keller the chauffeur Why Are You Lying, Elisabeth? (1944) as Ernst Stadinger