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Name: VON BODENHAUSEN-DEGENER, Hans Wilke (Baron)
Birth Date: 17 May 1901 Schloss Eybach, Baden-Württemberg
Death Date: 30 Aug 1937 Mombasa, murdered
Last Date: 1937
Profession: Director of Kurwetu Sisal Estate
Area: Mombasa
Married: In Palswiek Anga von Douglas b. 24 Nov 1900 Berlin, d. 26 Feb 1976 Oppendorf, Kiel, Germany
Children: Reinhild Maxrone-Mailer (8 June 1931)
Book Reference: Barnes, web
General Information:
Mombasa Mbaraki cemetery - Baron Hans Wilke von Bodenhausen, died 30 Aug 1937 age 36, Exhumed body taken to Germany, Fracture of skull, German
Dr.jur. Hans-Wilke Frhr. Von Bodenhausen-Degener
Gazette 8 Feb 1938 probate, says he died at Kilifi
Daily Telegraph 31 Aug 1937 Baron von Bodenhausen, aged 36, a director of the Kurwetu Sisal Estate, who only arrived in Kenya by air from Germany last week, was found shot dead in a bungalow on the estate.