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Berthold Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg (1905-1944), the elder Berthold

Berthold Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg is the name of both the brother and the son of Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg, a German aristocrat and army colonel during World War II. Image File history File links Derived from public domain images featured at: http://commons. ... Berthold von Stauffenberg File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Berthold von Stauffenberg File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Claus von Stauffenberg Claus Philipp Maria Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg (15 November 1907 – 21 July 1944) was a German aristocrat and army colonel during World War II. He was one of the leading figures of the July 20 Plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. ...

The Brother

The brother of Claus and uncle of young Berthold lived from March 15, 1905 until August 10, 1944. He was a German lawyer and conspirator in the July 20 Plot. March 15 is the 74th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (75th in Leap years). ... 1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... August 10 is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar). ... Widerstand (German: resistance) is the name given to the resistance movements in Nazi Germany. ... Claus von Stauffenberg The July 20 Plot was a failed coup détat and attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler. ...

He was the oldest of three brothers, the others being Alexander and Claus, born into an old and distinguished aristocratic South German Catholic family. His parents were the last Oberhofmarschall of the Kingdom of Württemberg, Alfred Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, and Caroline née von Üxküll-Gyllenbrand. Among his ancestors were several famous Prussians, including most notably August von Gneisenau. His name points to the imperial Stauffen Berg mountain and castle. Claus von Stauffenberg Claus Philipp Maria Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg (15 November 1907 – 21 July 1944) was a German aristocrat and army colonel during World War II. He was one of the leading figures of the July 20 Plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. ... Arms of the Kingdom of Württemberg The title of this article contains the character ü. Where it is unavailable or not desired, the name may be represented as Wuerttemberg. ... Coat of Arms of the Kingdom of Prussia, 1701-1918 Prussia (German: ; Latin: Borussia, Prutenia; Lithuanian: ; Polish: ; Old Prussian: PrÅ«sa) was, most recently, a historic state originating in East Prussia, an area which for centuries had substantial influence on German and European history. ... August Wilhelm Antonius Graf Neidhardt von Gneisenau (27 October 1760 – 23 August 1831) was a Prussian field marshal. ...

A lawyer, he became instructor in international law at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Foreign and International Law in 1927. He was introduced by Albrecht von Blumenthal with his brother, Claus, to the circle of the mystic symbolist poet Stefan George, many of whose followers later worked for the German Resistance to National Socialism. He worked at the Hague from 1930-32. Married Maria Classen. In 1939 he joined the navy, working in the High Command as a staff judge. Von Blumenthal is a noble family from Brandenburg, Prussia. ... Stefan George (1910) Stefan George (Bingen, Hesse, July 12, 1868 – Locarno, December 4, 1933) was a German poet and translator. ... Arms of The Hague The Hague (with capital T; Dutch: Den Haag, or officially s-Gravenhage) is the administrative capital of the Netherlands, located in the west of the country, in the province South Holland of which it is also the capital. ...

His brother, Claus, planted a bomb at the Führer's briefing hut at the military high command in Rastenburg, East Prussia on July 20, 1944 and then flew to Berlin, where he met up with Berthold at Rangsdorf airfield and they went to Bendlerstrasse, which the coup leaders intended to use as the centre of their operations in Berlin. Kętrzyn is a town in north-eastern Poland with 30,300 inhabitants (1995). ... East Prussia (German: Ostpreu en; Polish: Prusy Wschodnie; Russian: Восточная Пруссия — Vostochnaya Prussiya) was a province of Kingdom of Prussia, situated on the territory of former Ducal Prussia. ... July 20 is the 201st day (202nd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 164 days remaining. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar). ... Berlin is the capital city and one of the sixteen states of the Federal Republic of Germany. ...

Berthold and his brother were arrested at Bendlerstrasse. Claus was executed by firing squad that night. Berthold was tried in the Volksgerichtshof by Roland Freisler on 10 August and was one of eight conspirators executed by strangulation, hanged slowly in Plötzensee Prison, Berlin, later that day. The Volksgerichtshof (German for Peoples Court) was a court established by Hitler after the Reichstag fire to handle those accused of political criminal offences, such as treason. ... Roland Freisler (October 30, 1893 – February 3, 1945) was a prominent Nazi. ... August 10 is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Plötzensee is a lake in Berlin with an area of 7. ...

The Son

The son of Claus and nephew of Berthold was born July 3, 1934. He graduated from Salem and became an officer in West Germany's new army as soon as it was established in the 1950s. As Supreme Commander of Territorial Command South, he retired in 1994 with the rank of Generalmajor. He lives in Southern Germany. July 3 is the 184th day of the year (185th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 181 days remaining. ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Salem, ca. ...

Notes

Note regarding personal names: Graf is a title, translated as Count, not a first or middle name. The female form is Gräfin. Graf is a German noble title equal in rank to a count (derived from the Latin Comes, with a history of its own) or a British earl (an Anglo-Saxon title derived from the Viking title Jarl). ... A count is a nobleman in most European countries, equivalent in rank to a British earl, whose wife is also still a countess (for lack of an Anglo-Saxon term). ... Graf is a German noble title equal in rank to a count (derived from the Latin Comes, with a history of its own) or a British earl (an Anglo-Saxon title derived from the Viking title Jarl). ...

External links

• German local newspaper on the 70th birthday of the son