Graf von Wolf Ernst Hugo Emil Baudissin

Born in 1867, he was a German count from the Baudissin family who served as a cavalry officer and later became known as a writer. His books drew on his military experience and his interest in travel, giving readers lively accounts of army life and the world around him.

He is especially remembered for Life in a German Crack Regiment, a work that helped bring him to English-language readers. His writing belongs to the late Imperial German period and reflects the attitudes, routines, and social world of that era.

He died in 1926. Today, his work is mainly of interest to readers curious about German military culture, memoir-like nonfiction, and historical perspectives from the years before the First World War.