 Ihlefeld died on 8 August 1995 in Wennigsen, Lower Saxony.Ihlefeld was born on 1 June 1914 in Pinnow, at the time in the Province of Pomerania, a province of the Kingdom of Prussia, the son of a farm laborer.Following a machinist vocational education, he volunteered for military service in the "Reichsheer" on 1 April 1933.