Konstanze von Schulthess

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Konstanze von Schulthess-Rechberg , b. Countess von Stauffenberg (born January 27, 1945 in Frankfurt (Oder) ) is a German author .

Schulthess-Rechberg is the youngest of the five children of Nina Schenk Countess von Stauffenberg (1913–2006) and Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (1907–1944). She lives in Switzerland. In 2008 she published a biography about her mother.

Life

Konstanze von Schulthess-Rechberg was born on January 27, 1945 as Konstanze Schenk Countess von Stauffenberg, six months after the execution of her father in a National Socialist maternity home in Frankfurt (Oder), where her mother had been transferred from the Ravensbrück concentration camp to give birth. Her pregnant mother was on the day of the assassination attempt on 20 July 1944 in Sippenhaft been taken. After the end of the war, Konstanze Schenk Countess von Stauffenberg grew up together with her four older siblings Berthold , Heimeran , Franz Ludwig and Valerie at the seat of the Stauffenberg family in Lautlingen and inBamberg , her mother's hometown. She trained as a maternity care worker to help young mothers at home after giving birth. She has lived in Switzerland since 1965.

She is married and has four children. Her son Philipp von Schulthess (* 1973) is an actor and is best known for his participation in the film Operation Walküre - The Stauffenberg Assassination , in which the story of his grandfather is told.

Works

  • Nina Schenk Countess von Stauffenberg. A portrait. Pendo, Munich et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-85842-652-9 .
  • Nina Schenk Countess von Stauffenberg. A portrait. With a foreword and a personal comment by the author. audio media, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-86804-055-5 (audio book).

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Footnotes

  1. FAZ.net September 24, 2008 / Christopher Dowe: Review
  2. Conversation ( memento from June 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) with the magazine Cicero (2007)