Bernhard Klamroth

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Bernhard Klamroth (born November 20, 1910 in Berlin ; † August 15, 1944 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was a German officer who was one of the assassins of July 20, 1944 .

Life

First page of the judgment of the People's Court, the other defendants are Hans Georg Klamroth , Egbert Hayessen , Wolf-Heinrich von Helldorff , Adam von Trott zu Solz and Hans Bernd von Haeften

Klamroth passed the Abitur at the Grunewald High School in Berlin at Easter 1930 and joined the Reichswehr that same year . During the Second World War he served as a company commander from 1939 as part of the war against Poland . From March 1942 he was deployed on the Eastern Front as a general staff officer of the 4th Army . There he worked for the first time with Major General Hellmuth Stieff , who brought Klamroth to Berlin to the organizational department of the Army High Command . Stieff made Klamroth familiar with the plan to overthrow Hitler . Together with Lieutenant Albrecht von Hagen , Klamroth procured the explosives for the assassination in May 1944. Shortly before the attack, he also told his father-in-law and second cousin Hans Georg Klamroth about the attack plans.

After the failed assassination attempt on July 20, 1944, Bernhard Klamroth was arrested by the Gestapo the next day and imprisoned in the Lehrter Strasse cell prison. In the third show trial , he and his father-in-law were sentenced to death on August 15, 1944 by the People's Court , chaired by its President Roland Freisler . The sentence against him was carried out by hanging on the same day in Plötzensee .

family

Klamroth was born on November 20, 1910 in Berlin as the first-born son of Walter Ludwig Klamroth (* 1873) and his wife Marta Ida, nee. Klönne (* 1883) born. He grew up in Berlin with his five siblings. On January 5, 1943, he married Ursula Klamroth (* 1924; † 1981), the daughter of his second cousin, Hans Georg Klamroth . The son Jörn emerged from the marriage.

See also

Web links

Commons : Bernhard Klamroth  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walther-Rathenau-Schule (Ed.): 50 years of the Walther-Rathenau-Schule (formerly Grunewald-Gymnasium) . Berlin 1953, p. 68 .
  2. ↑ Klamroth, Bernhard. in: Lexicon of Resistance 1933–1945. Edited by Peter Steinbach and Johannes Tuchel. Beck Verlag, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-406-37451-4 , p. 104.
  3. ↑ Image file of the judgment of the People's Court on the server of the Plötzensee Memorial
  4. ↑ Wibke Bruhns: My father's country. Story of a German family. Econ-Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-430-22571-X
personal data
SURNAME Klamroth, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, involved in the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 1944
Place of death Berlin-Plötzensee