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Renoldi is a noble family probably of Hungarian or Frankish provenance. They established in Italy around the eleventh century, after serving as crusader knights in several crusades they settled down in Venice.[1]

During the Second World War, Dr. Otto von Renoldi was surgeon chief of the sixth German army Wehrmacht and signed the agreement of cease fire with the Russian army.[2]

References

  1. ^ Libro dei Nobili Veneti; ora, per la prima volta messo in luce (in Italian). Tipografia delle Murate. 1866.
  2. ^ Reinhold Busch (3 September 2014). Survivors of Stalingrad: Eyewitness Accounts from the 6th Army, 1942-43. Frontline Books. p. 113. ISBN 978-1-84832-766-5.