[1] Count Christian von Krockow was born in Rumbske (Rumsko) near the city of Stolp (Słupsk), Poland, the scion of a historic Pomeranian noble family.
Between 1947 and 1954, Krockow studied sociology, philosophy, and law at the universities of Göttingen, in Germany, where he earned his doctoral degree, and Durham, in England.
His biographies of Frederick the Great, Kaiser Wilhelm II, and the resistance fighter Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg, who attempted to assassinate Hitler on 20 July 1944, won wide readership.
His book Stunde der Frauen (Hour of the Women), which he wrote with his sister Libussa Fritz-Krockow, describes her ordeal fleeing Pomerania in 1945.
Of his native region, lost to Germany with the border changes of 1945 and the Expulsion of Germans after World War II, Krockow wrote: What broke forth over the people of East Prussia, Silesia and Pomerania and cost them their homeland, was set in motion long before: It was the result of our own German madness.Regarding personal names: Until 1919, Graf was a title, translated as 'Count', not a first or middle name.