Carl-Hans Graf von Hardenberg

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Carl-Hans Graf von Hardenberg (born October 22, 1891 in Glogau , Province of Silesia , † October 24, 1958 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German officer, estate manager and local politician and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Carl-Hans Graf von Hardenberg comes from the Lower Saxon noble family of those von Hardenberg , his father, a descendant of Karl August von Hardenberg , was an officer. He graduated from high school in Potsdam in 1910 and then joined the 1st Guards Regiment on foot as a flag junior . He took part in the First World War, was wounded several times and retired as a captain in 1919 .

On October 29, 1914, he married Renate Countess von der Schulenburg (1888–1959). With her he took over the management of the Neuhardenberg estate in the province of Brandenburg , which belonged to his family , in 1921 after his time as an officer . In addition to his agricultural activities, he was involved as a local politician in the Lebus district . In 1933, after the Nazi regime came to power , he refused to join the NSDAP or one of its branches and resigned from all offices. From 1936 he performed military exercises with Infantry Regiment 9 in Potsdam. In 1939, already Major dR, he became commander of the infantry replacement battalion 9. In 1940 he became adjutant to General Field Marshal Fedor von Bock in Army Group Center and Army Group South . In 1941 he witnessed a mass execution of Jews by Latvian SS units near Borissow .

Von Hardenberg was persecuted because of his participation in the Walküre company , he was supposed to act as police chief of Berlin. On July 20, he was the contact person for General Command Military District  III. His daughter Reinhild was also arrested after July 20 because she was her father's secretary and privy to the overturn plans.

On July 21, he attempted to kill himself to avoid torture and possible betrayal of co-conspirators by the Gestapo . After the unsuccessful suicide , he was imprisoned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp . There he was operated on by a fellow prisoner and nursed back to health. A trial has been prepared against him and the death penalty has been applied for. The liberation of the concentration camp by the Red Army came before that.

After the end of the war he went to Neuhardenberg again; he was expropriated. Then the family moved to Göttingen . In 1946 he became an asset manager for the Hohenzollern family .

He was a co-founder of the relief organization July 20, 1944 . Hardenberg lived in Kronberg im Taunus until his death . He was the father of six children and a legal knight of the Order of St. John . A foundation based in the Lietzen Commandery is named after Carl-Hans Graf von Hardenberg .

Carl-Hans Graf von Hardenberg died on October 24, 1958. An urn burial in his home town was rejected by those responsible in the GDR . Only after the reunification could his ashes and those of his wife be buried in Neuhardenberg.

Ilona Ziok thematized his fate in her 2009 film "The Junker and the Communist".

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mühleisen: Patriots in the Resistance . (PDF) p. 421
  2. ^ Fabian von Schlabrendorff : Encounters in five decades . Wunderlich, Tübingen 1979, ISBN 3-8052-0323-3 , p. 239 f .
  3. ↑ Mühleisen: Patriots in the Resistance . (PDF) pp. 468 and 470
  4. ↑ The Junker and the Communist on Spielfilm.de; Retrieved May 28, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Hardenberg, Carl-Hans Graf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hardenberg-Neuhardenberg, Carl H. von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, farmer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Glogau , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1958
Place of death Frankfurt am Main