Ernst Graf Strachwitz von Groß Zauche und Camminetz (22 December 1919 - 13 July 1998) was a German Army officer, Austrian politician and lawyer. Strachwitz was born and raised in Wöbling in the municipality Laßnitzhöhe in Styria. Strachwitz joined the Gebirgsjäger in 1938, fought as a paratrooper at the Battle of Narvik, on the Western Front and was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 26 November 1944, while serving in Finland. He finished the war as Major and bataillon commander with the 2nd Mountain Division.