Berthold Maria Schenk, Count of Stauffenberg

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Berthold Maria Schenk Count of Stauffenberg (1993)

Berthold Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (born July 3, 1934 in Bamberg ) is retired major general . D. the Bundeswehr and the oldest of the five children of Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and his wife Nina .

Life

Due to the service of the father Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg as an officer in the Reichswehr and Wehrmacht , the growing family had to move several times. In October 1934 and one year after the wedding, the family moved to Hanover, two years later in October 1936 to Berlin, in October 1938 again to Wuppertal-Barmen . In 1942 the family moved to Lautlingen before their mother Nina finally settled with the children in Bamberg when her husband went back to Berlin and she did not want to expect the children to move to the big city again.

As a ten-year-old Berthold Maria was during the summer holiday with his grandmother Karoline von Stauffenberg in Lautlingen along with his three siblings after the failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler in Sippenhaft taken separately from the pregnant in the third month mother and the children's home Bad Sachsa deported.

After the war, he attended the private school Gordonstoun in Scotland and put 1953 on boarding Salem , the High School from. Before founding the Bundeswehr, he completed a mechanical engineering internship, a commercial course and three semesters of law at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen .

In 1956 he joined the Bundeswehr. In 1957 he was promoted to lieutenant ; In 1967 he became a major . Until 1958 he was stationed in the USA. After 38 years of service, he was the oldest soldier in the Bundeswehr and commander of the Territorial Command South before retiring in 1994. Among other things, he taught at Staff College Camberley and at the command academy of the German Armed Forces and was from 1972 to 1974 commander of the 11th Panzer Reconnaissance Training Battalion in Munster . From 1982 to 1986 von Stauffenberg was commander of Heimatschutzbrigade 55 in Böblingen .

Since 1964 he has lived with his wife Mechthild Schenk, Countess von Stauffenberg, born. Countess von Bentzel-Sturmfeder-Horneck (born January 27, 1938 in Bamberg), whom he married in 1958, in Oppenweiler north of Stuttgart. The couple has three sons.

In June 2007 he asked Tom Cruise to give up the role of Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg in Operation Walküre - Das Stauffenberg Assassination . He was reluctant to have a Scientologist play his father.

On July 20, 2014, he gave the ceremonial speech in the Bendler Block in Berlin on the occasion of the solemn pledge of the Bundeswehr on the 70th anniversary of July 20, 1944 .

Awards

Publications

  • Suddenly a traitor child , Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2012 (Stuttgart Stauffenberg Memorial Lecture, 2011), ISBN 978-3-8353-1106-0 .

literature

  • Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg: A child as an "enemy of the people". In: Thomas Vogel (Ed.): Uprising of conscience. Military resistance against Hitler and the Nazi regime 1933–1945. 6th edition. Mittler, Hamburg et al. 2001, ISBN 3-8132-0708-0 , pp. 287-295.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Gerd Wunder: The taverns of Stauffenberg. A family history (= writings on Southwest German regional studies , Volume 11). Müller and Gräff, Stuttgart 1972, p. 480.
  2. ↑ Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg on May 23, 2013 in an interview with the Tagesspiegel editor Ulrike Scheffer and the photographer Sabine Würich for the book Operation Heimkehr. Bundeswehr soldiers report on life after being deployed abroad . Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2014; therein the chapter interjection by Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg .
  3. ^ Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg at Wallstein Verlag
  4. ↑ Stauffenberg does not want Tom Cruise to play his father ( Memento from July 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Yahoo Nachrichten, June 22, 2007
  5. ^ A recording of the broadcast by the Phoenix television station
personal data
SURNAME Stauffenberg, Berthold Maria Schenk Count of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Bundeswehr officer
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Bamberg