Olaf von Wrangel

Olaf von Wrangel (July 20 1928, Tallinn (Reval), Estonia – September 29 2009, Aumühle, Germany) was a German journalist, radio- and television correspondent and politician for the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU).

His father was lawyer and landowner Wilhelm von Wrangel and his mother was Annemarie Thomson.

His grandfather was German general mayor Nikolaus Alexander von Wrangel.

[1] In his childhood his parents left with him at the end of World War II for Reichsgau Wartheland.

From 1954 to 1956 he worked for German television station Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (NWDR) in Bonn.