Albrecht von Hagen

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Albrecht von Hagen (center, seated)

Albrecht von Hagen (born March 11, 1904 in Langen (Pomerania) ; † August 8, 1944 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was a German lawyer , reserve officer and resistance fighter against National Socialism in the assassination attempt of July 20, 1944 .

Life

Albrecht von Hagen was born on the rear-Pomeranian manor of the New Mark-Pomeranian nobility family of Hagen , from which he came. He studied law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and at the Albertus-Universität Königsberg . Since 1922 he was a member of the Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg . After his legal traineeship , he worked as an in-house counsel for Osthilfe and a private bank . In 1935 he took part in voluntary officer training courses for the Wehrmacht , so that at the beginning of the Second World War he was drafted as a reserve lieutenant . When used during the Africa campaign , he learned Colonel i. G. Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg know and, under his influence, joined the resistance against the National Socialists . The conspirators achieved his transfer to the High Command of the Wehrmacht , where he was responsible for the courier service between the offices in Berlin and the Fuehrer's headquarters in Wolfsschanze . In May 1944 Oberleutnant dR Albrecht von Hagen and Major i. G. Joachim Kuhn explosives for an assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler . The explosives for July 20, 1944 were procured by Colonel i. G. Wessel Freiherr von Freytag-Loringhoven .

Von Hagen was arrested immediately after the failed coup attempt. A few days later, his entire family was taken into kin custody. On August 8, 1944, von Hagen was sentenced to death by the People's Court in a show trial and on the same day in Plötzensee was executed by hanging on Hitler's express order . In the farewell letter from Albrecht von Hagens to his wife there is the line: "... I cannot quarrel with my fate."

literature

Web links

Commons : Albrecht von Hagen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 140/1376.
  2. ↑ Gerd R. Ueberschär : Stauffenberg. July 20, 1944. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-10-086003-9 , p. 156
personal data
SURNAME Hagen, Albrecht von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Langen (Pomerania)
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1944
Place of death Berlin-Plötzensee