Hermann Schöne (soldier)

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Gravestone Hermann Schöne at the Kirchhainer Friedhof 2013: He gave his life in the fight against tyranny.
Home of the Schöne family. Occupied by the Soviet headquarters after World War II.

Hermann Beautiful (* 6. May 1888 in Kirchhain, Niederlausitz ; † 15. January 1945 , executed in Brandenburg prison ) was a resistance fighter of 20 July 1944 .

biography

Hermann Schöne was the son of a leather manufacturer and came from Kirchhain in Niederlausitz . After graduating from high school in 1908, he chose a career as an officer in the infantry . After a serious wound in the First World War , the war academy and employment as a general staff officer followed . Although Schöne had been taken over by the Reichswehr , he left as early as 1921 and took over the management of his parents' factory from his seriously ill father.

With the beginning of the Second World War , the staff officer volunteered. From 1943 he was employed as a general staff officer, finally with the rank of lieutenant colonel , with the Berlin Wehrmacht commander Lieutenant General Paul von Hase and was included in the overturn plans.

After the failed assassination attempt on July 20, 1944, he was arrested on July 21. The People's Court, under its President Roland Freisler, needed five days of trial for a total of seven defendants before Hermann Schöne and four other defendants were sentenced to death on October 12 . Hermann Schöne was executed in Brandenburg prison on January 15 .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bengt von zur Mühlen (ed.): The defendants of July 20 before the People's Court. Chronos Film GmbH, Berlin 2001, p. 164

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Commons : Hermann Schöne  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Beautiful, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soldier and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Doberlug-Kirchhain
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1945
Place of death Brandenburg prison , Brandenburg an der Havel