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A - 2 - Count Sternberg was born on 21 May 1896 in Tschastalowitz. After finishing school, he joined the 6th Austrian Dragoner Regiment in Brno as a volunteer in August 1914. After training as a replacement troop, he went to the Russian front in December 1914 as a corporal. From December 1914 to November 1915 he took part in the movement battles in the Bukovina with the army Rlanzer-Baltin. In May 1915 he was awarded the silver medal of 2nd grade and was promoted to Pähnrich in the same month. In September 1915 he received the silver Medal of Braveness 1st grade. In November 1915 he was slightly wounded for the first time, but in January 1916 he returned to the regiment at the front. In March 1916 he received the bronze medal of bravery at the bridge head of Uzciesko. In May 1916 he was promoted to lieutenant. In July 1916 he got the signum Laudis and the EK. II. His conduct on the occasion of the Brusilov offensive at Klumasov was the reason for these awards. After two years of front service with the troops, he was commanded to the machine gun course in Brück a.d.L. in October 1916 and returned to the regiment in March 1917. In May 1917 he was promoted to lieutenant general. During the offensive in July 1917 he was severely wounded by a shrapnel (Oberschenkelschuss) and received the military service cross 3rd class. Because of his severe wound he was 17 months long and up to December 1918 in the military hospital 4. Rudolfiner-Haus in Vienna. As a result of the wound a shortening of the left leg and a stiff knee remained. From 1919 to 1921, Graf Sternberg studied at the agricultural college in Munich. Since 1921, he helped his father in the administration of the above-mentioned farms. In 1927, he married my cousin, Countess Cecilia Reventlow, who was Reichsdeutsche and has two brothers. The former Count Hubert Reventlow volunteered in 1936 as a pilot in the Spanish War and later became