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Friedrich Elliot von
Frankenberg und Ludwigsdorf was born in Germany on 2 January 1889, to an aristocratic and cultured family and raised mostly in Germany. His father, Friedrich von Frankenberg, was a German baron of independent means, while his mother, Jessie Elliot, was the daughter of a wealthy
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because Elliot and her son were German nationals. He seems to have initially travelled to
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