Gerd von Tresckow

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Hermann Robert Jürgen Gerd von Tresckow (born March 21, 1899 in Lüben (Silesia); † September 6, 1944 in Berlin ) was a career officer and resistance fighter from July 20, 1944 .

Life

Gerd von Tresckow came from an old Prussian noble family. The von Tresckow family could look back on a long line of officers in various armies. His father Hermann von Tresckow († 1933) was present at the imperial coronation in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles and had made it to the position of general of the cavalry in the Prussian army .

Together with his younger brother Henning von Tresckow , Gerd von Tresckow grew up in this monarchical environment on their father's Wartenberg estate . He was first taught by a private teacher and later in the Realgymnasium of the Alumnat of the Loccum Monastery , which was housed in Goslar from 1890 to 1923 . At the beginning of the First World War he joined the 1st Guards Regiment on foot in the Prussian Army. There von Tresckow became a lieutenant and leader of the 7th Company. In August 1918 he was captured by the French near Crezy au Mont.

After returning from captivity in 1920, he learned agriculture from his relative Hans von Wedemeyer on his Pätzig estate. From 1935 to 1940 he owned the Osteroda estate , which had a size of 233 hectares. His first marriage was on June 4, 1925, with Cornelia Martha Helene von Köller . From this connection came two daughters, Maria Marie-Agnes and Marie-Elisabeth. The marriage ended in divorce in 1935. In his second marriage he married Erika Countess von Schlieffen . From this marriage came three daughters, Ingeborg, Mechthild, and Anna Dorothee.

As early as 1934, Gerd von Tresckow described the newly introduced oath of leadership as "conscience servitude"; he recognizes in the Führer cult a “deification of man” and the “antichristian basic tone of the movement”. In August 1939 he brought Fabian von Schlabrendorff (married to Gerd's cousin) in connection with Henning von Tresckow.

During the Second World War , von Tresckow became a lieutenant colonel. His last position was on a divisional headquarters in Italy. Three days after the failed attack on Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944, he revealed himself south of Faenza to his superior General Joachim Witthöft as an accomplice to the conspiracy. He was arrested and taken to the Lehrter Strasse cell prison in Berlin. On September 6th, as a result of the "exacerbated interrogations" (torture) carried out by members of the Reich Security Main Office, after attempting to cut his wrists, he died in the police state hospital. The family was denied the burial of the body.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ a b Bodo Scheurig : Henning von Tresckow. A Prussian against Hitler. Biography. Oldenburg / Hamburg 1973. ( ISBN 3-549-07212-0 , several new editions, most recently in 2004)
  2. ↑ Gothaisches Genealogical Paperback, Uradelige homes in 1941 . Gotha 1941, p. 551.
  3. ↑ Bodo Scheurig: Henning von Tresckow. A Prussian against Hitler. Frankfurt / Main u. Berlin 1997, p. 55f.
  4. ↑ Eva Madelung et al. a .: Hero children, traitor children: if the parents were in the resistance. Beck, Munich 2007, p. 138.
  5. ^ Karl-Günther von Hase: Memories. WDV, 2010, p. 107.
  6. ↑ Barbara Orth: Gestapo in the operating room: Report by the hospital doctor Charlotte Pommer . Lukas, Berlin 2012, p. 50.
personal data
SURNAME Tresckow, Gerd von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tresckow, Hermann Robert Jürgen Gerd von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Lüben , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1944
Place of death Berlin