As Count Stauffenberg, several members of the Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg family are known, especially for taking part in the events of 20 July1944. July 20 is the 201st day (202nd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 164 days remaining. ... Year 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ...
It was Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg who planted the bomb that was meant to kill Adolf Hitler, while his elder brother Berthold Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg supported the coup in Berlin. 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. ... Hitler redirects here. ... 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. // The Brother The brother of Claus and uncle of... Berlin is the capital city and one of the sixteen states of the Federal Republic of Germany. ...
On the 20th July he attemped to kill the Furher by placing a bomb in his East Prussian military headquaters. Althought the bomb exploded, a heavy table in between Hitler and the Bomb meant that the Furher escaped with only minor injuries to his leg. Four of Hitlers military advisors where killed in the blast. When caught by the Gestapo Count von Stauffenberg was hanged with piano wire.
Stauffenberg was born the third of three sons (the others being Berthold, and Alexander) in Jettingen, Swabia, near Ulm in the Kingdom of Bavaria, to one of the oldest and most distinguished aristocratic southern German Catholic families.
Stauffenberg, along with fellow officers General Olbricht, Leutnant von Haeften and Oberst Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim, were shot later that night by firing squad in the courtyard of the Bendlerblock (Headquarters of the Army) in Berlin.
Stauffenberg's wife and children were also arrested by the SS, and in the final hours of World War II were about to be executed when the SS decided not to carry out the order when they became aware that British troops were within 400 meters of their location.
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