This is a list of members of the July 20 plot, a coup d'état which involved a failed attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler. At least 7,000 persons were arrested by the Gestapo ^[1]. According to records of the Fuerhrer Conferences on Naval Affairs, 4,980 persons were executed ^[2]. The most prominent conspirators were ordered to be "hanged like cattle" by Hitler. At the Ploetzensee prison, those persons were placed on meathooks and slowly strangled with piano wire ^[3]. Claus von Stauffenberg The July 20 Plot was an attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler, the dictator of Germany, on July 20, 1944. ... Coup redirects here. ... Hitler redirects here. ...

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B

• General Ludwig Beck, ex-Chief of the General Staff (1880-1944); executed July 20 at the office of General Friedrich Fromm after being allowed two chances to shoot himself ^[4]
• Lieutenant Colonel Robert Bernardis (1908-1944)
• Count Albrecht von Bernstorff, former embassy councillor (1890-1945); executed by firing squad at Gestapo headquarters, April 22, 1945 ^[5]
• Major Count Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal (1907-1944);
• Lieutenant Colonel (General Staff) Hasso von Boehmer (1904-1945)
• Eugen Bolz, former Staatspräsident of Württemberg (1881-1945)
• Lieutenant Colonel Georg von Boeselager, cavalry officer (1915-1944)
• Lieutenant Philipp von Boeselager, cavalry officer (1917- )
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer, theological professor and minister of the Confessing Church (1906-1945); arrested 1943 for treason, executed April 9, 1945 ^[6]
• Klaus Bonhoeffer, lawyer (1901-1945); executed by Gestapo, April 22, 1945 ^[7]
• Randolph von Breidbach-Bürresheim
• Dr. Eduard Brücklmeier, legation councillor (1903-1944)
• Captain Axel Freiherr von dem Bussche-Streithorst (1919-1993); made plans to assassinate Hitler with suicide bomb ^[8]

Ludwig Beck General Ludwig Beck (June 29, 1880 – July 21, 1944) was Chief of Staff of the German Armed forces during the early years of the Nazi regime in Germany before World War II. Born in Biebrich in Hesse-Nassau, he was educated in the conservative Prussian military tradition. ... Friedrich Fromm (October 8, 1888 - 1945) was a German army officer, best known as the main person responsible for the executions of the conspirators to assassinate Adolf Hitler. ... Robert Bernardis Robert Bernardis (born August 7, 1908 in Innsbruck; died August 8, 1944 in Berlin-Plötzensee) was an Austrian resistance fighter involved in the attempt to kill Adolf Hitler in the July 20 Plot in 1944. ... Hans-Jürgen, Graf von Blumenthal (February 23, 1907 - October 13, 1944) was a German aristocrat and Army officer in World War II who was executed by the German government for his role in the July 20 Plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. ... Hasso von Boehmer, (born 9 August 1904; died 5 March 1945, in Berlin, executed) was a German first lieutenant on the General Staff and one of the July 20 Plotters. ... Eugen Bolz Eugen Anton Bolz (born 15 December 1881 in Rottenburg am Neckar; died 23 January 1945 in Berlin-Plötzensee) was a German politician and a member of the resistance to the Nazi régime. ... 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. ... Georg Freiherr von Boeselager (August 25, 1915 – August 27, 1944) was a German nobleman and officer of the Wehrmacht, who ultimately served as Colonel (Oberst) of Cavalry. ... Philipp von Boeselager is the last surviving member of the July 20 Plot, a conspiracy among high ranking Nazi officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1944. ... Dietrich Bonhoeffer [] (February 4, 1906 – April 9, 1945) was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, participant in the German Resistance movement against Nazism, and a founding member of the Confessing Church. ... The Confessing Church (German: Bekennende Kirche) was a Christian resistance movement in Nazi Germany. ... Klaus Bonhoeffer (5 January 1901 – 23 April 1945) was a German jurist and resistance fighter against the Nazi régime. ... Eduard Robert Wolfgang Brücklmeier (born 8 June 1903 in Munich; died 20 October 1944 in Berlin), as a diplomat, held various posts for the Foreign Office, and was executed as a resistance fighter against the Nazi régime in Germany in connection with the July 20 Plot. ... Axel Freiherr von dem Bussche-Streithorst (24 April 1919 - 26 January 1993), usually referred to as Axel von dem Bussche in English, was a German Army officer and member of the German Resistance to Adolf Hitlers regime. ...

C

• Oscar Caminecci, farmer
• Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, Chief of German Military Intelligence (1887-1945); hanged at Flossenburg concentration camp, April 9, 1945 ^[9]
• Walter Cramer, industrialist

Wilhelm Franz Canaris (January 1, 1887 – April 9, 1945) was a German admiral and head of the Abwehr, the German military intelligence service, from 1935 to 1944. ... Walter Cramer Wilhelm Bernardo Walter Cramer (born 1 May 1886 in Leipzig; died 14 November 1944 in Berlin) was a German businessman from Leipzig and a member of the failed July 20 Plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler at the Wolfs Lair in East Prussia. ...

D

• Professor Alfred Delp, Pater S.J. (1907-1945); executed February 2, 1945 ^[10]
• Dr. Wilhelm Dieckmann, official working in a ministry
• Marion Gräfin Dönhoff, proposed as ID person to President of the Bundesrepublik in 1979, by Willy Brandt, see Art. 139 GG, Art. 18 GG
• Heinrich Graf zu Dohna-Tolksdorf, landowner
• Court official Hans von Dohnanyi (1902-1945); arrested for treason, 1943; executed April 9, 1945 ^[11]
• Lieutenant Hans Martin Dorsch
• Captain Max-Ulrich Graf von Drechsel

Alfred Delp Alfred Delp (born 15 September 1907 in Mannheim; died 2 February 1945 in Berlin) was a German priest who took part in the resistance to the Nazi régime in Germany. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Marion Dönhoff. ... Hans von Dohnanyi Hans von Dohnanyi (born 1 January 1902 in Vienna; died 8 or 9 April 1945 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp) was a German jurist and resistance fighter against the Nazi régime. ...

E

• Professor Fritz Elsas, former deputy mayor of Berlin
• Lieutenant (General Staff) Karl-Heinz Engelhorn
• Lieutenant Hans Otto Erdmann

F

• Baron Alexander von Falkenhausen, military commander of Belgium and northern France (1878-1966); freed by American troops from Niederhorf on May 4, 1945, before Gestapo could carry out death sentence; imprisoned until 1951 for war crimes ^[12]
• General Erich Fellgiebel, chief of military signals (1886-1944); in charge of cutting off communications on July 20, hanged on August 10, 1944
• Colonel (General Staff) Eberhard Finckh (1899-1944)
• Professor Max Fleischmann
• Reinhold Frank, lawyer
• Ehrengard Frank-Schultz
• Colonel (General Staff) Wessel von Freytag-Loringhoven (1899-1944), who provided the explosives for the plot
• Walter Frick, salesman
• General Friedrich Fromm (1888-1945). Aware of the conspiracy, betrayed and executed conspirators, including Stauffenberg, on July 20. He was arrested on orders of Himmler the next day, and executed by firing squad for "cowardice" on March 19, 1945 ^[13]

Alexander von Falkenhausen (October 29, 1878 - July 31, 1966) was the head of the military government of Belgium during the German occupation, from 1940 until 1944 in the Second World War. ... Erich Fellgiebel Fritz Erich Fellgiebel (born 4 October 1886 in Pöpelwitz near Breslau, Silesia, now Popowice near Wrocław in Poland; died 4 September 1944 in Berlin-Plötzensee) was a German officer and resistance fighter in the Third Reich. ... Reinhold Frank Reinhold Frank (born 23 July 1896 in Bachhaupten in the Sigmaringen district; died 23 January 1945 in Berlin) was a German lawyer. ... Wessel Freiherr Freytag von Loringhoven, commonly known as Wessel von Freytag-Loringhoven (10 November 1899 – died 26 July 1944), was a colonel in the German General Staff of the Wehrmacht and a member of the German resistance against Adolf Hitler. ... Friedrich Fromm (October 8, 1888 - 1945) was a German army officer, best known as the main person responsible for the executions of the conspirators to assassinate Adolf Hitler. ...

G

• Captain Ludwig Gehre
• Colonel Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff (1905-1980), chief of intelligence for Field Marshal Guenther Kluge, planned suicide bomb attack for March 21, 1943 ^[14]
• Eugen Gerstenmaier (1906-1986), Consistory Councillor, subsequently Speaker of the Bundestag
• Hans Bernd Gisevius (1904-1974)
• Erich Gloeden, architect; and Elisabeth Charlotte Gloeden, his wife.
• Dr. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (1884-1945), former mayor of Leipzig; arrested August 12, 1943 in Konradswalde; hanged February 2, 1945 ^[15]
• Fritz Goerdeler, treasurer of Königsberg; brother of Carl Goerdeler, hanged February 1945 ^[16]
• Colonel (General Staff) Helmuth Groscurth
• Nikolaus Gross, journalist (1898-1945)
• Karl Ludwig Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg (1902-1945) publisher of The White Pages from 1934, arranged the first meeting of Carl Goerdeler and Ulrich von Hassell in 1939, Counterintelligence under Admiral Canaris, arrested by the Gestapo after 20. July 1944, murdered 23-24 April, 1945

Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff (March 27, 1905–January 27, 1980) was a military officer in Germany’s Weimar-period Reichswehr and Nazi-period Wehrmacht. ... Eugen Karl Albrecht Gerstenmaier (born 25 August 1906 in Kirchheim unter Teck; died 13 March 1986 in Bonn) was a German Evangelical theologian, resistance fighter in the Third Reich, and a CDU politician. ... Type Lower house President of the Bundestag Dr. Norbert Lammert, CDU since October 18, 2005 Members 614 Political groups Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union of Bavaria Bloc (226) Social Democratic Party of Germany (222) Free Democratic Party (61) The Left. ... Hans Bernd Gisevius Hans Bernd Gisevius (July 14, 1904-February 23, 1974) was a leading opponent to the Nazi regime. ... Carl Friedrich Goerdeler Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (July 31, 1884 – February 2, 1945) was a conservative German politician and opponent of the Nazi regime. ... Leipzig ( ; Sorbian/Lusatian: Lipsk from the Sorbian word for Tilia) is, with a population of over 506,000, the largest city in the federal state of Saxony, Germany. ... Former German name of the city of Kaliningrad. ... Nikolaus Gross (Groß; born 30 September 1898 in Niederwenigern (Hattingen/Ruhr); died 23 January 1945 in Berlin) was a German resistance fighter in the time of the Third Reich who was later beatified by Pope John Paul II at St. ...

H

• Max Habermann, Christian syndicate leader
• Hans Bernd von Haeften, official in the foreign office
• Lieutenant Werner von Haeften (1908-1944); executed July 20, 1944, by firing squad on orders of General Fromm ^[17]
• Syndic Albrecht von Hagen (1904-1944)
• Colonel Kurt Hahn
• Colonel General Franz Halder, Chief of the General Staff; freed by American troops from Niederdorf on May 4, 1945, before Gestapo could carry out death sentence ^[18]
• Nikolaus-Christoph von Halem (1905-1944), merchant
• Eduard Hamm, former ministry official (1879-1944)
• Colonel (General Staff) Georg Hansen ^[19]
• Colonel (General Staff) Bodo von Harbow
• Ernst von Harnack, former district president
• General-leutnant Paul von Hase, commander of Berlin (1885-1944); among the first eight tried by the People's Court; hanged August 8, 1944 ^[20]
• Ulrich von Hassell, former ambassador to Italy (1881-1944); executed September 8, 1944 ^[21]
• Theodor Haubach, leading social democrat
• Professor Albrecht-Georg Haushofer; executed by firing squad at Gestapo prison, April 23, 1945 ^[22]
• Major (General Staff) Egbert Hayessen
• Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorf, police president of Berlin ^[23]
• Major General Otto Herfurth; collaborated with, then betrayed, conspirators; hanged ^[24]
• Andreas Hermes, former minister for food and agriculture (1878-1964)
• Colonel General Erich Hoepner (1886-1944); among the first eight hanged, August 8, 1944 ^[25]
• Colonel Caesar von Hofacker (1896-1944); testimony led to execution of General Erwin Rommel ^[26]
• Major Roland von Hößlin
• Otto Hübener, director of an insurance company

Hans Bernd von Haeften Hans Bernd August Gustav von Haeften (born 18 December 1905 in Charlottenburg; died 15 August 1944 in Berlin) was a German jurist and resistance fighter in Germany against the Nazis. ... Werner Karl von Haeften (9 October 1908 - 20 July 1944) was an Oberleutnant in the Wehrmacht, who took part in the military-based conspiracy against Hitler known as the July 20 Plot. ... Albrecht von Hagen (born 11 March 1904 in Langen, Pomerania, nowadays Łęgi, Poland, died 8 August 1944 in Berlin) was a German jurist and a resistance fighter in the time of the Third Reich. ... Franz Halder Franz Ritter Halder (June 30, 1884 – April 2, 1972) was a German General and the head of the Army General Staff from 1938 until September 1942, when he was dismissed after frequent disagreements with Adolf Hitler. ... Paul von Hase Karl Paul Immanuel von Hase (born 24 July 1885; died 8 August 1944 in Berlin) was a German career soldier and figured among the members of the resistance against Adolf Hitlers Nazi régime. ... Ulrich von Hassell (born 12 November 1881 in Anklam; died 8 September 1944 in Berlin (executed) was a German diplomat and an opponent of the Third Reich involved in the July 20 plot. ... Theodor Haubach (born 15 September 1896 in Frankfurt am Main; died 23 January 1945 in Berlin) was a German journalist, SPD politician, and resistance fighter against the Nazi régime. ... Albrecht Haushofer was a German geopolitician and professor of political geography in Berlin, author of tragedies in verse, and representative of conservative resistance in Germany during World War II. Born in 1903, he was the son of Karl Haushofer, the German geopolitical theoretician, whose student, Rudolf Hess, was Hitlers... Egbert Hayessen (born 28 December 1913 in Eisleben; died 15 August 1944 in Berlin-Plötzensee; murdered) was a German resistance fighter in the struggle against Adolf Hitler, and a major in the army. ... Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorf (born 14 October 1896 in Merseburg, died 15 August 1944 in Berlin) was a German resistance fighter against the Nazi régime. ... Erich Hoepner Erich Hoepner (September 14, 1886 - August 8, 1944) was a German general in World War II. Hoepner was born in Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany and served in the German Army during World War I. He remained in the army in the post-war years and reached the... Caesar von Hofacker Lieutenant-Colonel Caesar von Hofacker (2 March 1896 – 20 December 1944), whose first name is sometimes spelt Cäsar, was a member of a resistance group in Nazi Germany whose goal was to overthrow Hitler. ... Roland von Hößlin Roland-Heinrich von Hößlin, or Hösslin (born 21 February 1915 in Munich; died 13 October 1944 in Berlin, executed) was a German Wehrmacht officer and resistance fighter in the time of the Third Reich. ...

J

• Colonel Friedrich Gustav Jaeger (1895-1944)
• Max Jennewein, technician
• Professor Jens-Peter Jessen
• Hans John, lawyer
• Otto John (1909-1997), in 1954 while President of the Constitutional Protection, defected to East Germany.

Colonel Friedrich Gustav Jaeger, 1895-1944 Friedrich Gustav Jaeger (born 25 September 1895 in Kirchberg an der Jagst; died 21 August 1944 in Berlin) was a resistance fighter in Nazi Germany and a member of the July 20 Plot. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the state which existed from 1949 to 1990. ...

K

• Hermann Kaiser, grammar school teacher
• Jakob Kaiser, CDU co-founder (1888-1961)
• Franz Kempner, retired ministry official (undersecretary of state)
• Albrecht von Kessel, Diplomat, Mission Adviser at the Vatican
• Otto Kiep, envoy (1886-1944)
• Georg Conrad Kießling, farmer
• Lieutenant Colonel Bernhard Klamroth
• Georg-Johannes Klamroth, merchandiser
• Hans Georg Klamroth, salesman (1898-1944)
• Captain Friedrich Karl Klausing (1920-1944)
• Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin (1890-1945) Executed April 16, 1945 ^[27]
• Lieutenant Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin (1922-2007)
• General Field Marshal Günther von Kluge (1882-1944) Swallowed poison August 18, 1944, after being replaced by General Model ^[28]
• Major Gerhard Knaack
• Dr. Hans Koch, lawyer (1893-1945)
• Heinrich Körner, union leader
• Lieutenant Commander Alfred Kranzfelder
• Richard Kuenzer, legation councillor
• Elise Auguste Kutznitzki, née von Liliencron

Jakob Kaiser (wall-plaque at Jakob-Kaiser-Haus, Berlin) Jakob Kaiser (8 February 1888 - 7 May 1961) was a German politician and resistance leader during World War II. Jakob Kaiser was born in the Franconian town of Hammelburg. ... Otto Kiep Otto Carl Kiep (born 7 July 1886 in Saltcoats, Scotland; died 23 August 1944 in Berlin) was the Chief of the Reich Press Office (Reichspresseamt). ... Hans Georg Klamroth Hans Georg Klamroth (born 12 October 1898 in Halberstadt; died 26 August 1944 in Berlin, executed) was, by his knowledge of the plans through distant relatives and his son-in-law Lieutenant-Colonel Bernhard Klamroth, involved in the July 20 Plot to assassinate Hitler. ... Friedrich Karl Klausing Friedrich Karl Klausing (born 24 May 1920 in Munich; died 8 August 1944 in Berlin) was a resistance fighter in Nazi Germany, and one of the July 20 Plotters. ... Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin (22 March 1890 – 9 April 1945) was a lawyer, a conservative politician, and the owner of an estate in Pomerania, northeast of Berlin. ... Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin (born 1922 in Schmenzin, Pomerania (now Smęcino near Koszalin in Poland)), sometimes known simply as Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist or Ewald von Kleist, is a former Wehrmacht officer and resistance fighter, active in the Third Reich against Adolf Hitler. ... Günther “Hans” von Kluge (October 30, 1882 – August 19, 1944), was a German military leader. ...

L

• Lieutenant Colonel Fritz von der Lancken, headmaster of a boarding school
• Carl Langbehn, lawyer
• Dr. Julius Leber, social democratic politician (1891-1945)
• Heinrich Graf von Lehndorff-Steinort, landowner. Executed September 4, 1944 ^[29]
• Syndic Dr. Paul Lejeune-Jung (1882-1944)
• Major Ludwig Freiherr von Leonrod
• Bernhard Letterhaus, leader of the Catholic worker community (1894-1944)
• Franz Leuninger, former secretary General of the Christian Metal Workers' Association
• Wilhelm Leuschner, leading social democrat, former minister for internal affairs of Hesse
• General of the Artillery Fritz Lindemann
• Colonel (General Staff) Ottfried von Linstow
• Paul Löbe (1875-1967)
• Ewald Loeser (1888-1970)
• Ferdinand Freiherr von Lüninck, governor of Westfalia
• Wilhelm Graf zu Lynar

Julius Leber (born 16 November 1891 in Biesheim, Alsace), died 5 January 1945 in Berlin) was a German politician and resistance fighter against the Nazi régime. ... Heinrich Graf von Lehndorff-Steinort Heinrich Ahasverus Graf von Lehndorff-Steinort (born 22 June 1909 in Hanover; died 4 September 1944 in Berlin) was a member of the July 20 Plot against Adolf Hitler. ... Paul Adolf Franz Lejeune-Jung, (actually Lejeune gen. ... Wilhelm Leuschner Wilhelm Leuschner (born 15 June 1890 in Bayreuth; died 29 September 1944 in Berlin-Plötzensee) was a social-democtratic politician who fought against the Third Reich until he was murdered. ... Paul Löbe (born December 14, 1875 in Liegnitz (Schlesien), died August 3, 1967 in Bonn) was a German politician (SPD). ... Ferdinand von Lüninck Ferdinand Joseph Meinolph Anton Maria Freiherr von Lüninck (born 3 August 1888 in Ostwig, nowadays Bestwig, North Rhine-Westphalia; died 14 November 1944 in Berlin, executed) was a German landowner and officer. ...

M

• Hermann Maaß, leading social democrat
• Colonel Rudolf Graf von Marogna-Redwitz
• Karl Marks, merchant
• Michael Graf von Matuschka, district president
• Colonel Joachim Meichßner
• Lieutenant Colonel (General Staff) Karl Michel
• Carlo Mierendorff, SPD (1897-1943)
• Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, lawyer
• Joseph Müller, Catholic priest
• Dr. Otto Müller, prelate
• Herbert Mumm von Schwarzenstein, legation councillor out of service
• Lieutenant Colonel Ernst Munziger

Rudolf von Marogna-Redwitz Colonel Rudolf Graf von Marogna-Redwitz (born 15 October 1886 in Munich; died 12 October 1944 in Berlin) was a resistance fighter in Nazi Germany, and a member of the July 20 Plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler at the Wolfs Lair in East Prussia. ... Helmuth James Graf von Moltke Helmuth James Graf von Moltke (born 11 March 1907 in Kreisau bei Gräditz, Lower Silesia [now Krzyżowa in Poland]; died 23 January 1945 in Berlin) was a German jurist, a member of the opposition against Hitler in Nazi Germany, and a founding member...

N

• Arthur Nebe, head of the national police
• Wilhelm zur Nieden, local government building officer
• Gustav Noske, SPD politician (1868-1946)

SS-Gruppenführer Artur Nebe (1894–21 March 1945) was Berlin Police Commissioner in the 1920s and an early member of both the Sturmabteilung (SA) and the Schutzstaffel (SS). ... Noske and Ebert Gustav Noske (July 9, 1868 - November 30, 1946) was a German administrator. ...

O

• Major (General Staff) Ulrich von Oertzen
• General Friedrich Olbricht (1880-1944) Executed on orders of General Fromm, July 20, 1944 ^[30]
• Major General Hans Oster hanged at Flossenburg with Admiral Canaris, April 9, 1945 ^[31]

General Friedrich Olbricht Friedrich Olbricht (born 4 October 1888 in Leisnig, Saxony; died 21 July 1944 in Berlin) was a German general and one of the plotters involved in the attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler at the Wolfs Lair in East Prussia on 20 July 1944. ... Hans Oster (August 9, 1887 – April 9, 1945) was a career officer in the Wehrmacht and a dedicated opponent of Adolf Hitler and Nazism. ...

P

• Friedrich Justus Perels, legal advisor of the Confessing Church
• Generalleutnant Erich Petersen
• Erwin Planck, former undersecretary of state (Max Planck's son)
• Kurt Freiherr von Plettenberg
• Dr. Johannes Popitz, Prussian minister of finance; executed February 2, 1945 ^[32]

The Confessing Church (German: Bekennende Kirche) was a Christian resistance movement in Nazi Germany. ... Erwin Planck Erwin Planck (born 12 March 1893; died 23 January 1945 in Berlin) was a German politician, and a resistance fighter in the Third Reich. ... “Planck” redirects here. ... Johannes Popitz Johannes Popitz (born 2 December 1884 in Leipzig; died 2 February 1945 in Berlin) was a Prussian finance minister and an opponent of the Third Reich. ...

Q

• Colonel Ritter Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim (1905-1944) Executed on orders of General Fromm, July 20, 1944 ^[33]

Albrecht Ritter Mertz von Quirnheim Albrecht Ritter Mertz von Quirnheim (born 25 March 1905 in Munich; died 20 July 1944 in Berlin) was a German officer and a resistance fighter in Nazi Germany who was involved in the July 20 Plot against Hitler. ...

R

• Cuno Raabe, lawyer (1888-1971)
• General Friedrich von Rabenau
• Lieutenant Colonel (General Staff) Karl Ernst Rathgens
• Professor Adolf Reichwein, leading social democrat
• Colonel Alexis Freiherr von Roenne
• General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel (1891-1944); allowed to commit suicide, October 14, 1944, and given state funeral ^[34]

Adolf Reichwein Adolf Reichwein (born 3 October 1898 in Bad Ems; died 20 October 1944 in Berlin-Plötzensee, executed) was a German educator, economist, and cultural policymaker for the SPD. He was also a resistance fighter in Nazi Germany. ... Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel ( ) (15 November 1891 – 14 October 1944) was perhaps the most famous German field marshal of World War II. He was the commander of the Deutsches Afrika Korps and also became known by the nickname The Desert Fox (Wüstenfuchs,  ) for the skillful military campaigns he waged...

S

• Karl Sack, Judge Advocate General of the Army (1896-1945) ^[35]
• Lieutenant Colonel (General Staff) Joachim Sadrozinski
• Anton Saefkow, mechanical engineer ^[36]
• Major Hans-Viktor Graf von Salviati
• First Lieutenant Fabian von Schlabrendorff, after the war Member of the Federal Counstitutional Court (1907-1980)
• Professor Rüdiger Schleicher
• Ernst Wilhelm Schneppenhorst, former labour union leader
• Friedrich Scholz-Babisch, farmer
• Colonel Hermann Schöne
• Lieutenant Colonel Werner Schrader
• Friedrich Werner Graf von der Schulenburg, ambassador. Executed November 10, 1944 ^[37]
• Fritz-Dietlof Graf von der Schulenburg, district president. Hanged August 10, 1944 ^[38]
• Colonel (General Staff) Georg Schultze-Büttger
• Ludwig Schwamb, leading social democrat
• Ulrich Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld, landowner
• Hans-Ludwig Sierks, local government building officer
• Lieutenant Colonel (General Staff) Günther Smend
• Franz Sperr, legate
• General Hans Speidel, Rommel's chief of staff, later commander of NATO ground forces (1897-1984)
• Colonel Wilhelm Staehle
• Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (1905-1944), lawyer and brother of Colonel von Stauffenberg, hanged August 10, 1944
• Colonel (General Staff) Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (1907-1944), shot at Bendlerblock
• Colonel (General Staff) Hans-Joachim Freiherr von Steinaecker
• Major General Helmuth Stieff
• Theodor Strünck, insurance director
• General Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel (1886-1944)
• Major Carl Szokoll

German jurist and resister 1896-1945 Karl Sack (born June 9, 1896 in Bosenheim (now Bad Kreuznach), executed April 9, 1945 in Flossenbürg concentration camp) was a German jurist and member of the resistance movement during World War II. Karl Sack studied law in Heidelberg and after an time... Anton Emil Hermann Saefkow (born 22 July 1903 in Berlin; died 18 September 1944 in Brandenburg an der Havel, executed) was a German Communist and a resistance fighter against the Nazi régime. ... Fabian von Schlabrendorff Fabian von Schlabrendorff (born 1 July 1907 in Halle an der Saale; died 3 September 1980 in Wiesbaden) trained as a lawyer, later joining the German Army. ... Rüdiger Schleicher (1895-1945) Rüdiger Schleicher (14 January 1895 – 23 April 1945) was a German resistance fighter against the Nazi régime. ... Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg (born 20 November 1875 in Kemberg, Saxony-Anhalt; died 10 November 1944 in Berlin) began his diplomatic career even before the First World War, serving as consul and ambassador in several countries. ... Fritz-Dietlof Graf von der Schulenburg-Tressow (born 5 September 1902 in London, died 10 August 1944 in Berlin) was a government official and a resistance fighter in the July 20 Plot. ... Ludwig Schwamb (born 30 July 1890 in Undenheim; died 23 January 1945 in Berlin) was a social-democratic jurist and politician who fought against the Nazi dictatorship in Germany as a member of the Kreisau Circle motivated by his Christian beliefs, and as a close colleague of Wilhelm Leuschner, which... Ulrich Wilhelm Graf von Schwerin und von Schwanenfeld (born 21 December 1902 in Copenhagen; died 8 September 1944 in Berlin) was a German landowner, officer, and resistance fighter against the Nazi régime. ... Günther Smend (born 29 November 1912 in Trier; died 8 September 1944 in Berlin) was a German officer and a resistance fighter involved in the July 20 Plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. ... (from left to right:) Gerd von Rundstedt, Günther Blumentritt, Hans Speidel and Erwin Rommel in La Rôche Guillon Hans Speidel (born 28 October 1897, Metzingen - died at Bad Honnef, 28 November 1984) was a German general during World War II. Hans Speidel joined the German army in 1914... 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... Claus von Stauffenberg Count Claus Philip Maria Schenk von Stauffenberg (November 15, 1907 — July 20, 1944) was a German aristocrat and army colonel during World War II. He was one of the leading figures of the July 20 Plot against Adolf Hitler. ... The Bendlerblock is a building in Berlin, near Tiergarten. ... General Helmuth Stieff (1901-1944) General Helmuth Stieff (born 6 June 1901 in Deutsch Eylau (now IÅ‚awa, Poland); died 8 August 1944 in Berlin) was a member of the OKH (German Army General Staff) during World War II who took part in the attempt by the German resistance to... It is requested that this article, or a section of this article, be expanded. ... Carl Szokoll Carl Szokoll (* October 15th 1915 in Vienna; † August 25th 2004 in Vienna) was an Austrian resistance fighter involved in the July 20 Plot, major in the Wehrmacht and after the war author and film producer. ...

T

• Lieutenant Colonel Gustav Tellgmann
• Elisabeth von Thadden, headmistress of a boarding school
• Lieutenant General Fritz Thiele
• Major Busso Thoma
• General Carl Freiherr von Thüngen
• Lieutenant Colonel Gerd von Tresckow
• Major General Henning von Tresckow (1901-1944)
• Adam von Trott zu Solz, legation councillor

Elisabeth Adelheid Hildegard von Thadden (born 29 July 1890 in Mohrungen, East Prussia, nowadays Morąg, Poland; died 9 September 1944 in Berlin, executed) was a German educator who founded a private school that nowadays bears her name, and an outspoken critic of the National Socialist (Nazi) régime. ... Busso Thoma (born 31 October 1899 in St. ... Henning Hermann Robert Karl von Tresckow (January 10, 1901 – July 21, 1944) was a Major General in the German Wehrmacht who is known for organizing German resistance against Hitler. ... Adam von Trott zu Solz (born August 9, 1909 in Potsdam, Germany - died August 26, 1944 in Berlin, Germany) was a lawyer and diplomat who opposed the Nazi regime. ...

U

• Colonel (retired) Nikolaus Graf von Uexküll

V

• Fritz Voigt, former police president of Breslau
• Lieutenant Colonel Hans-Alexander von Voss

W

• General quartermaster of the army Eduard Wagner
• Colonel Siegfried Wagner
• chaplain Hermann Wehrle
• Carl Wenzen-Teutschenthal, farmer
• Josef Wirmer, lawyer
• Oswald Wiersich, labour union leader
• General Field Marshal Erwin von Witzleben

A Quartermaster general is the staff officer in charge of supplies for a whole army. ... Josef Wirmer (born 19 March 1901 in Paderborn; died 8 September 1944 in Berlin) was a German jurist and resistance fighter against the Nazi régime. ... Job-Wilhelm Georg Erwin von Witzleben (born 4 December 1881 in Breslau; died 8 August 1944 in Berlin, executed) was a German army officer (by 1940 a Generalfeldmarschall) and in the Second World War an Army commander and a resistance fighter in the July 20 Plot. ...

Y

• Peter Graf Yorck von Wartenburg, ministry official

Peter Graf Yorck von Wartenburg (born 13 November 1904 in Klein-Öls near Ohlau, Lower Silesia, now Oława, Poland; died 8 August 1944 in Berlin) was a German jurist and resistance fighter against the Nazi régime. ...

Z

• Arthur Zarden
• General Gustav von Ziehlberg, secretary of state