 He was the son of Ferdinand Wolf von Stülpnagel (1873–1938) and Martha von Wietersheim (1885–1959), herself the granddaughter of Joseph Azarian and the great-granddaughter of Osmer Abner Bingham of Boston, MA.Ferdinand Wolf von Stülpnagel was chamberlain of the court administration of the Crown Prince.His family, the von Stülpnagel, were members of the German lower nobility.