Original: Johann Ludwig ( Lutz ) Graf Schwerin von Krosigk , ( 22 August 1887 4 March 1977 ) was a German jurist and senior government official , who served during May 1945 in the historically unique position of Leading Minister of the German Reich , the equivalent of a Chancellorship in the short-lived Flensburg government of Reich President Karl Dönitz .
Simplified: His father was from a noble family in Anhalt , his mother was a daughter of one of the Counts ( '' Graf '' ) von Schwerin .