Christa von Hassell December 21, 1923 – August 15, 2009 Christa von Hassell was born in 1923 in the house of her maternal grandfather in Muttrin, Pomerania, near the Baltic Sea to Erika von Studnitz, née von Zitzewitz, and Lieutenant General Bogislav August Wilhelm von Studnitz. Christa grew up close to several military bases, moving…