Eberhard Finckh
Eberhard Finckh (born November 7, 1899 in Kupferzell ; died August 30, 1944 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was a German Wehrmacht officer who was involved in the military resistance against National Socialism .
In connection with the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944 and the subsequent attempted coup , he initiated the arrest of the security service in the French capital of Paris, which was occupied by Germany during the Second World War . After the coup failed, he was sentenced to death by the People's Court and executed.
Life
Eberhard Finckh grew up in Urach and Stuttgart . In 1917 he joined the Royal Württemberg Army Corps as a war volunteer and took part in the First World War. After the fall of the Empire with the November Revolution of 1918 , he was taken over in the Reichswehr of the Weimar Republic in 1920 and deployed in the 5th Artillery Regiment . On December 1, 1923, he was promoted to lieutenant and on February 1, 1928 to first lieutenant . In 1927 Finckh was assigned to the War Academy in Berlin-Moabit , where he later met Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg .
During the Second World War he was employed as quartermaster on the staff of various units . In 1942 he was chief quartermaster of the 6th Army and in 1943 of Army Group South . In 1944, he was employed in the rank of colonel in the general staff as chief quartermaster with Commander- in -Chief West in Paris. Here he met Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel , the military commander in Germany-occupied France, who was one of the central figures in the Wehrmacht's resistance to the Nazi regime . Finckh participated in the planning of a coup in Paris as part of the assassination attempt on Hitler. On July 20, 1944 , on the basis of a message from the conspirators from Berlin, he informed his superior, General of the Infantry Günter Blumentritt, of Hitler's death and initiated the elimination of the National Socialist executive structures on site with the order to arrest the security service under the SS in Paris .
When it became known that the assassination attempt had failed, the attempted coup was stopped; Finckh was arrested on July 26th. Less than a month later he was dishonorably expelled from the Wehrmacht by the court of honor formed on August 2, 1944 , so that the Reich Court Martial was no longer responsible for the judgment. On August 29, 1944, Finckh was sentenced to death by the People's Court under the presidency of Roland Freisler and hanged the next day in the then central Berlin execution site of the Nazi regime, the Plötzensee prison (now the Plötzensee Memorial ) .
Bundeswehr appointment to Eberhard Finckh
→ Main article: Eberhard Finckh barracks
Two decades after Finckh's death, in 1965, the military barracks of the army near Engstingen in Baden-Württemberg, previously known as " Haid barracks", was named after Eberhard Finckh. The naming of the rocket artillery and nuclear weapons location in " Eberhard-Finckh-Kaserne ", which existed from 1958 to 1993, was owed to the efforts of the Federal Government to keep the new (west) German army in a tradition of resistance against the Wehrmacht under changed political circumstances in the course of the traditional decree of 1965 the Nazis to make, and they symbolically represented as democratically legitimate army before and international public. The protest that took place in 1983 against the appropriate naming of the barracks by Eberhard Finckh's direct descendants (son and daughters), who had joined the peace movement against “ retrofitting ”, remained unsuccessful - especially until the barracks were closed.
After the barracks were closed in 1993, only one of the main thoroughfares of the area now known as the Haid industrial park kept the name “Eberhard-Finckh-Straße”.
See also
literature
- Wilhelm von Schramm : July 20 in Paris . Kindler & Schiermeyer, Bad Wörishofen 1953
Individual evidence
- ^ Spiegel article from 1983 about Peter Finckh's initiative to remove the name of his father from the Eberhard Finckh barracks
Web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Finckh, Eberhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German officer and resistance fighter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 7, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Copper cell |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 30, 1944 |
| Place of death | Berlin-Plötzensee |