The family left their ancestral home after Estonia proclaimed independence in 1918 and the German land titles and assets were confiscated.

[3] Loringhoven's last assignment was as a staff officer responsible for the preparation of reports for Adolf Hitler.

After 23 April 1945, when Hitler's communications staff began to desert, he had to improvise and he based his intelligence reports on information he was able to gather from the Allied news agencies Reuters and the BBC.

That morning, Loringhoven had approached Krebs and asked if he and Boldt could leave Berlin and "return to the fighting troops".

[6] The men had been tasked with trying to reach General Walther Wenck's Twelfth Army, tell of the dire situation and request relief for Berlin.

[3] The men reached Pichelsdorf where they obtained a boat from some Hitler Youth and then headed south on the Havel river.

Loringhoven and Boldt changed into civilian clothes and reached Wittenberg where they registered under false names at a camp.

[8] Loringhoven almost made it to Leipzig where his family was living, but was detained by a US Army soldier who did not believe his story and put in a jail cell for a few days.

[11] At the time of his death at the age of 93, he was one of the last three known living witnesses (along with bunker telephone operator Rochus Misch and Hitler Youth courier Armin Lehmann) to the events in the Führerbunker at the end of World War II.