Adolf Friedrich von Schack (officer)
Adolf Friedrich Graf von Schack (* 3. August 1888 in Sankt Goar , † 15. January 1945 in Brandenburg prison ) was a resistance fighter of 20 July 1944 .
Life
He was the son of Ulrich Graf von Schack , an officer who came from Mecklenburg , and his wife Gertrude geb. Schmitz from Bonn . After graduating from high school in Boppard in 1909, he chose the career of an officer. He was seriously wounded in the First World War .
In 1920 Schack ended his military career and from 1923 managed the family estate in Zülow in Mecklenburg. Schack was a member of the Bund der Frontsoldaten and from 1936 of the NSDAP .
With the beginning of the Second World War he became an officer again. The campaign in the West followed , and he was transferred to the Potsdam Army Archives and finally to the Berlin city command . There the major was the head of the organization department and was included in the plans for a coup against Hitler by the Berlin city commandant Lieutenant General Paul von Hase . On July 20, 1944, he was involved in forwarding orders to carry out the Valkyrie Company . After the coup failed, he removed documents before he was arrested on July 21st.
The People's Court, under its President Roland Freisler, needed five days of trial for a total of seven defendants before Adolf Friedrich Graf von Schack and four other defendants were sentenced to death on October 12, 1944 and shot in Brandenburg prison on January 15, 1945 .
Schack was married to Else Dorothea Freiin von Werthern from 1928 and had a daughter and three sons with her. His grave is in the cemetery in Großneuhausen , next to those of his wife's family.
See also
Web links
- Short biography of the German Resistance Memorial Center
- The resistance fighter Adolf Friedrich Graf von Schack was a son of the city of St. Goar. In: St-Goar.de , July 4, 2005.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bengt von zur Mühlen (ed.): The defendants of July 20 before the People's Court. Chronos Film, Berlin 2001, p. 164.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schack, Adolf Friedrich von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schack, Adolf Friedrich Graf von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German officer and resistance fighter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 3, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Goar |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 15, 1945 |
| Place of death | Brandenburg prison , Brandenburg an der Havel |