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Schirach, Ferdinand von
German lawyer and writer Ferdinand von Schirach (b. 1964) was born in Munich to a wealthy family in the nobility. He grew up in Trossingen, living with his mother’s kin until the age of 10, when he was sent to the catholic boarding school at St. Blasien. After graduation he left the church. He went through his military service and then studied law at the University of Bonn in 1987–1991. Since the...
Literary figures
Alan Banks
Gender: Male
Detective Inspector Banks works in the fictional town of Eastvale in Swainsdale, a fictional region based on Yorkshire. He is the calm and systematic protagonist in a series of novels and short stories by the British author Peter Robinson. DI Banks likes model railways, sixties rock and his colleague Annie Cabbot, with whom he has had an off and on relationship after divorcing his wife Sandra.