Nina Schenk Countess von Stauffenberg

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Nina Magdalena Elisabeth Lydia Herta Schenk Countess von Stauffenberg , b. Freiin von Lerchenfeld (born August 27, 1913 in Kowno , then the Russian Empire , now Lithuania , † April 2, 2006 in Kirchlauter near Bamberg ), was married to Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg .

Life

Memorial plaque on the outer wall of the Rottweiler prison
Kirchlauter, Bavaria

Nina Freiin von Lerchenfeld was born as the daughter of the Franconian consul general Gustav Freiherr von Lerchenfeld (1871-1944), a royal Bavarian chamberlain and imperial consul general, and the Baltic noblewoman Anna Freiin von Stackelberg (1880-1945). She attended the Lyceum in Bamberg and met Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg at the age of 16 as a student at a boarding school for girls in the Heidelberg district of Wieblingen . The engagement followed in 1930 and the marriage on September 26, 1933 in Bamberg. According to the tradition of the Stauffenberg family, the children were baptized and raised Catholic, although Nina, like Claus von Stauffenberg's mother, was Protestant. The marriage resulted in a total of five children:

She knew that her husband and his friends were planning a coup d'état against the National Socialist Reich, but not of her husband's late decision to carry out the assassination himself.

She had purposely not been privy to the details of the coup by her husband. The then pregnant Nina von Stauffenberg was how their children and all Stauffenbergischen namesakes, after the failed assassination of her husband from the Gestapo in Sippenhaft taken. The children were abducted by the National Socialists to a children's home in Bad Sachsa in Lower Saxony and held under false names. Nina von Stauffenberg gave birth to her fifth child, Konstanze, while in custody on January 27, 1945 in a National Socialist maternity home in Frankfurt (Oder) . A few days later, her mother Anna died in the Danzig-Matzkau prison . After an odyssey through various concentration camps as special prisoners, they were deported to Franconia at the end of the war and were finally released there.

After the end of the war, the family got together at the family seat in Lautlingen (now a district of Albstadt ). In the post-war period, von Stauffenberg particularly advocated the coexistence of Germans with US soldiers stationed in Germany. On September 27, 1968 she was a co-founder of the “ Schutzgemeinschaft Alt Bamberg e. V. ”, which was founded in protest against the demolition of the townscape-defining house“ zum Marienbild ”at the foot of the Kaulberg in favor of widening the street to protect Bamberg's old town.

Nina von Stauffenberg died on April 2, 2006 at the age of 92.

Awards and honors

literature

  • Fey von Hassell : Never bend over. Memories of a special prisoner of the SS. Piper, Munich et al. 1990, ISBN 3-492-03352-0 .
  • Dorothee von Meding: With the courage of the heart. The women of July 20th. Approved paperback edition. Goldmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-442-72171-7 ( Goldmann. Btb 72171).
  • Konstanze von Schulthess : Nina Schenk Countess von Stauffenberg. A portrait. Pendo, Munich et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-85842-652-9 .
  • Konstanze von Schulthess: 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 with 6 CDs).
  • Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg A child as an "enemy of the people". In: Thomas Vogel (Ed.): Uprising of conscience. Military resistance against Hitler and the Nazi regime 1933–1945. 6th edition. Mittler, Hamburg et al. 2001, ISBN 3-8132-0708-0 , pp. 287-295.
  • Harald Steffahn: Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg. 3. Edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-499-50520-7 ( Rororo 50520 Rowohlt's monographs ).
  • Gerd R. Ueberschär : Stauffenberg. July 20, 1944. 2nd edition. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-10-086003-9 .
  • Eberhard Zeller: Colonel Claus Graf Stauffenberg. A picture of life. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 1994, ISBN 3-506-79770-0 .
  • Ursula Brekle: Stauffenberg family - Hitler's revenge. Bertuch, Weimar 2018, ISBN 978-3-86397-097-0 .
  • Sophie von Bechtolsheim: Stauffenberg. My grandfather wasn't an assassin. Herder, Freiburg / Basel / Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-451-07217-8 .

Web links

 Wikinews: Count Schenk von Stauffenberg's widow dies  - news

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Hartmann:  Claus Philipp Maria Graf von Stauffenberg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 679 f. ( Digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Stauffenberg, Nina Schenk Countess of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stauffenberg, Elisabeth Magdalena Schenk Countess von; Lerchenfeld, Elisabeth Magdalena Freiin von (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German wife of Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Kovno , then the Russian Empire, now Lithuania
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 2006
Place of death Kirchlauter near Bamberg