Hans Adalbert Schlettow

Hans Adalbert Schlettow
Hans Adalbert Schlettow
Born	(1888-06-11)11 June 1888 Frankfurt, German Empire
Died	30 April 1945(1945-04-30) (aged 56) Berlin, Germany
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.