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Wilhelm Adolf, Count of Rantzau
Wilhelm Adolf was the last Count of Rantzau, an imperial county in Holstein. In 1721 his brother Count Christian Detlev was shot dead, and Wilhelm Adolf was arrested and convicted of arranging the killing. He died in prison in 1734; the Danish king had already occupied the county, which was annexed to Denmark in 1726 under an earlier agreement and became a district of Holstein.
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