Persons of July 20, 1944

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The list of people on July 20, 1944 includes those involved, confidantes and escape helpers in the failed assassination attempt of July 20, 1944 on Adolf Hitler .

Those involved came from many strata of the population and had many contacts with the Kreisau circle around Helmuth James Graf von Moltke . Among the 200 later executed or otherwise driven to death because of the uprising were the three Field Marshals Günther von Kluge , Erwin von Witzleben and Erwin Rommel , 19 generals , 26 colonels , two ambassadors , seven diplomats , a minister , three state secretaries and the head of the Reich Criminal Police Arthur Nebe ; furthermore several senior presidents , police presidents and government presidents .

On resistance to National Socialism involved personalities who participated not directly on 20 July 1944, are in the list of resistance fighters against the Nazis listed.

A.

  • Major Wolfgang Abshagen (born November 17, 1897 Stralsund; † August 21, 1945 Brest, executed)
  • Colonel Otto Armster , head of the Abwehrstelle Vienna (born July 11, 1891 Preetz, † September 21, 1957); imprisoned from July 1944 until the end of the war, from 1945 to 1955 in Soviet custody

B.

  • Otto Baer jun. , Entrepreneur (born November 7, 1880 Dresden; † August 1, 1947 Torgau)
  • Gertrud Beck, b. Müller (born December 3, 1882 Rostock; † August 15, 1944 Frankfurt-Höchst, executed)
  • Colonel-General Ludwig August Theodor Beck , former Army Chief of Staff (born June 29, 1880 Biebrich; † July 21, 1944 Berlin, shot on the personal orders of General Friedrich Fromm )
  • Lieutenant Colonel i. G. Robert Bernardis (born August 7, 1908 Innsbruck; † August 8, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Counselor a. D. Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff (born March 6, 1890 Berlin; † April 23, 1945 Berlin, murdered)
  • Gottfried Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen , District President in Potsdam (born March 29, 1901 Berlin; † September 14, 1949 Verden / Aller)
  • Major Hans-Jürgen Graf von Blumenthal (* February 23, 1907 Potsdam; † October 13, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Lieutenant Colonel i. G. Hasso von Boehmer (born August 9, 1904 Groß-Lichterfelde; † March 5, 1945 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Eugen Bolz , former President of Württemberg (born December 15, 1881 Rottenburg am Neckar; † January 23, 1945 Berlin, executed)
  • Colonel Georg von Boeselager (* August 25, 1915 Heimerzheim Castle; † August 27, 1944 Lomza / Russia, fallen)
  • Major Philipp von Boeselager (born September 6, 1917 Heimerzheim Castle; † May 1, 2008 Kreuzberg Castle)
  • Lieutenant General Hans von Boineburg-Lengsfeld (born June 9, 1889 Eisenach; † November 20, 1980 Altenburg, Hesse)
  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer , Evangelical Lutheran theologian and member of the Confessing Church (born February 4, 1906 in Breslau; † April 9, 1945, Flossenbürg concentration camp, executed)
  • Klaus Bonhoeffer , lawyer (born January 5, 1901 Breslau; † April 23, 1945 Berlin, shot dead)
  • Randolph Freiherr von Breidbach-Bürresheim , lawyer and first lieutenant (born August 10, 1912 Bonn; † June 13, 1945 Sachsenhausen concentration camp)
  • Rittmeister Arthur Eberhard Börries Wolf Alfred von Breitenbuch , qualified forest engineer (born July 20, 1910 Dietzhausen near Suhl, † September 22, 1980 Göttingen); after the war in the Lower Saxony forest service
  • Eduard Brücklmeier , lawyer and legation councilor a. D. in the Foreign Office (born June 8, 1903 Munich; † October 20, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Major Axel von dem Bussche (born April 24, 1919 Braunschweig, † January 26, 1993 Bonn); escaped the wave of arrests because he had been in the hospital since January 1944

C.

  • Oscar Caminneci , farmer (* April 17, 1885 Palermo / Sicily; † March 9, 1945 Mauthausen concentration camp , executed)
  • Admiral Wilhelm Canaris , head of the German military intelligence service (born January 1, 1887 Aplerbeck near Dortmund; † April 9, 1945 Flossenbürg concentration camp, executed)
  • Walter Cramer , industrialist (born May 1, 1886 Leipzig; † November 14, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)

D.

  • Gustav Dahrendorf , Social Democratic member of the Reichstag, journalist, businessman (born February 8, 1901 Hamburg; † October 30, 1954 Braunlage)
  • Justus Delbrück , since August 17, 1944, Gestapo prison in Lehrter Strasse (born November 25, 1902 in Berlin; † October 23, 1945 in the special camp Jamlitz )
  • Alfred Delp , Pater SJ (born September 15, 1907 Mannheim; † February 2, 1945 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Oberregierungsrat Wilhelm Dieckmann (* July 17, 1893 Stotel; † September 13, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Heinrich Graf von Dohna-Schlobitten , landowner (born October 15, 1882 Waldburg near Königsberg; † September 14, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Reich judge Hans von Dohnanyi (born January 1, 1902 Vienna; † April 8, 1945 Sachsenhausen concentration camp, executed)
  • Oberleutnant Hans-Martin Dorsch († March 13, 1945, executed)
  • Captain Max Ulrich Graf von Drechsel (born October 3, 1911 Karlstein; † September 4, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz , area of ​​responsibility of the Federal Foreign Office in Copenhagen (born September 29, 1904 Bremen, † February 16, 1973 Bremen)

E.

  • Captain Albrecht Eggert (born March 23, 1903 - † January 5, 1977), Staff Army Group Center,
  • Fritz Elsas , former Second Mayor of Berlin (* July 11, 1890 Cannstatt; † January 4, 1945 Sachsenhausen concentration camp, executed)
  • Lieutenant Colonel i. G. Karl Heinz Engelhorn (born September 6, 1905 Hagenau; † October 24, 1944 Brandenburg-Görden, executed)
  • Lieutenant Colonel Hans Otto Erdmann (* December 18, 1896 Insterburg; † September 4, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)

F.

  • General of the infantry Alexander Freiherr von Falkenhausen , military commander of Belgium and northern France, (born August 29, 1878 Gut Blumenthal district Neisse O / S; † July 31, 1966 Nassau); Not charged due to insufficient evidence, but detained until the end of the war.
  • Banker Gotthard Ludwig Hans Dietrich Freiherr von Falkenhausen , (born January 20, 1899 Steinkirchen; † November 1, 1982 Essen). Acquitted for lack of evidence
  • General of the news troops Erich Fellgiebel (born October 4, 1886 Pöpelwitz near Breslau; † September 4, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Colonel i. G. Eberhard Finckh (born November 7, 1899 Kupferzell; † August 30, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Albrecht Fischer , building officer (born March 27, 1877 Stuttgart; † January 19, 1965). Acquitted by the People's Court, but imprisoned until the end of the war.
  • Max Fleischmann (born October 5, 1872 in Breslau; † January 14, 1943 Berlin, suicide). Was intended for managerial tasks in Baden.
  • Reinhold Frank , lawyer (* July 23, 1896 Bachhaupten; † January 23, 1945 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Ehrengard Frank-Schultz (born March 23, 1885 Magdeburg; † December 8, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Colonel i. G. Wessel Freiherr von Freytag-Loringhoven (born November 22, 1899 Groß Born / Kurland; † July 26, 1944 Mauerwald / East Prussia, suicide)
  • Walter Frick , businessman (born October 31, 1895 - † April 22, 1945, executed without judgment)
  • Hans Karl Fritzsche (born January 3, 1914 Graudenz; † June 8, 1999 Bonn). Belonged to the inner circle around Stauffenberg. Was released after three months in detention due to a lack of evidence and sent to the Eastern Front. After the war personal advisor to Bundestag President Eugen Gerstenmaier.
  • Colonel-General Friedrich Fromm (born October 8, 1888 Charlottenburg (now Berlin), † March 12, 1945 Brandenburg-Görden, shot), also involved in the crackdown
  • Joseph-Ernst Fugger von Glött (born October 26, 1895 Kirchheim in Swabia; † May 13, 1981 Miesbach). Member of the Kreisau Circle, designated as State Administrator for Bavaria; Sentenced by the People's Court to 3 years in prison in Berlin-Tegel and Bayreuth. After the war co-founder of the CSU and member of parliament

G

  • Otto Heinrich von der Gablentz , political scientist (born September 11, 1898 Berlin, † April 27, 1972 Berlin)
  • Captain Ludwig Gehre (born October 5, 1895 Düsseldorf; † April 9, 1945 Flossenbürg concentration camp, executed)
  • Major General Rudolph-Christoph von Gersdorff (born March 27, 1905 Lüben / Silesia; † January 27, 1980 Munich)
  • Eugen Gerstenmaier , Konsistorialrat, possibly and center politician (born August 25, 1906 Kirchheim unter Teck, † March 13, 1986 Oberwinter near Remagen). Sentenced to 7 years in prison by the People's Court; after 1945 founder of the EKD relief organization and president of the Bundestag for over 15 years .
  • Otto Geßler (born February 6, 1875 Ludwigsburg; † March 24, 1955 Lindenburg im Allgäu), former Reichswehr Minister ; He was arrested two days after the attack and was interned in the Ravensbrück concentration camp until February 24, 1945 .
  • Hans Bernd Gisevius , lawyer, government councilor (born July 14, 1904 in Arnsberg; † February 23, 1974 in Müllheim); escaped arrest after July 20th.
  • Erich Gloeden , architect (born August 23, 1888 - † November 30, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Elisabeth Charlotte Gloeden , lawyer (born December 9, 1903 Cologne; † November 30, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Carl Friedrich Goerdeler , Lord Mayor of Leipzig until 1937, 1934/35 also Reich Prize Commissioner (born July 31, 1884 Schneidemühl; † February 2, 1945 Berlin-Plötzensee, hanged); an arrest warrant against him was issued before July 20th.
  • Fritz Goerdeler , City Treasurer of Königsberg (born March 6, 1886 Schneidemühl; † March 1, 1945 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Colonel i. G. Helmuth Groscurth , co-author of the secret memorandum Das threatenende Unheil, an invitation to the military leadership to commit high treason (* December 16, 1898 Lüdenscheid; † April 7, 1943 in Soviet captivity)
  • Nikolaus Groß , trade unionist ( KAB ), editor, blessed of the Catholic Church (born September 30, 1898 Niederwenigern; † January 23, 1945 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Karl Ludwig Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg , historian, publisher (born April 22, 1902 on the Salzburg river near Bad Neustadt; † April 23, 1945 Berlin, murdered)

H

  • Max Habermann , Christian union leader (born March 21, 1885 Altona; † October 30, 1944 Gifhorn, suicide in the Gestapo prison),
  • Hans Bernd von Haeften , Legation Councilor in the Foreign Office (* December 18, 1905 Charlottenburg; † August 15, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Oberleutnant Werner von Haeften (born October 9, 1908 Berlin; † July 21, 1944 Berlin-Tiergarten, shot on the personal orders of General Friedrich Fromm)
  • Lieutenant dR Albrecht von Hagen , lawyer (born March 11, 1904 Langen / Pomerania; † August 8, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Colonel Kurt Hahn (* July 22, 1901 Januschkau / East Prussia; † September 4, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • State Secretary a. D. Eduard Hamm (born October 16, 1879 Passau; † September 23, 1944 Berlin, suicide)
  • Colonel i. G. Georg Alexander Hansen (* July 5, 1904 Sonnefeld / Coburg; † September 8, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Colonel i. G. Bodo von Harbou (* April 7, 1887; † July 29, 1943 Berlin, suicide)
  • Lieutenant Colonel i. G. Carl-Hans Graf von Hardenberg , farmer (born October 22, 1891 Glogau; † October 24, 1958 Frankfurt am Main)
  • District President a. D. Ernst von Harnack (born July 15, 1888 Marburg / Lahn; † March 5, 1945 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Lieutenant General Paul von Hase , Commander of Berlin (* July 24, 1885 Hanover; † August 8, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Ulrich von Hassell , lawyer, diplomat (born November 12, 1881 Anklam; † September 8, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Theodor Haubach , economist, editor, leading social democrat (born September 15, 1896 Frankfurt am Main; † January 23, 1945 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Albrecht Haushofer , geographer, writer (born January 7, 1903 in Munich, † April 23, 1945 in Berlin, murdered)
  • Major i. G. Egbert Hayessen (born December 28, 1913 Eisleben † August 15, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich Wilhelm Heinz (born May 7, 1899 Frankfurt am Main, † February 26, 1968 Bad Nauheim); survived underground
  • Lieutenant General Gustav Heisterman von Ziehlberg (* December 10, 1898 Hohensalza; † February 2, 1945 Berlin-Spandau, executed)
  • Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff , Police President of Berlin (born October 14, 1896 Merseburg, † August 15, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Major General Otto Herfurth (born January 22, 1893 Hasserode; † September 29, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Andreas Hermes , Reich Minister for Food and Agriculture a. D. (born July 16, 1878 Cologne; † 1964 Krälingen)
  • Lieutenant General Adolf Heusinger (born August 4, 1897 Holzminden, † November 30, 1982 Cologne); Released from prison in October 1944 as no evidence could be found against him. From 1957 first General Inspector of the Bundeswehr and appointment to General
  • Colonel General Erich Hoepner (born September 14, 1886 Frankfurt (Oder); † August 8, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Lieutenant Colonel d. R. Caesar von Hofacker (born March 11, 1896 Ludwigsburg; † December 20, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Richard Hoin , Social Democrat (born July 23, 1879 Odersbach; † October 14, 1944 Odersbach, died as a result of abuse in Gestapo custody)
  • Major Roland von Hößlin (born February 21, 1915 Munich; † October 13, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Ernst Otto Hübener , insurance salesman, co-founder and co-owner of the Jauch & Hübener company in Hamburg (* December 28, 1891 Hamburg; † April 21 or 23, 1945 Berlin, shot without a trial)

J

  • Colonel Friedrich Gustav Jaeger , officer (born September 25, 1895 Kirchberg an der Jagst; † August 21, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Jens Jessen , economist (born December 11, 1895 Stoltelund near Tingleff; † November 30, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Hans John , lawyer (born August 1, 1911 in Ziegenhain in Hesse; † April 23, 1945 in Berlin Lehrter Strasse cell prison, executed)
  • Otto John , lawyer (born March 19, 1909 Marburg; † March 26, 1997 Innsbruck); was able to flee abroad after the failure of the attack; 1950–1954 first President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution

K

  • Oberleutnant dR Hermann Kaiser , teacher (born May 31, 1885 Remscheid; † January 23, 1945 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Jakob Kaiser , bookbinder, center politician, trade unionist (born February 8, 1888 Hammelburg; † May 7, 1961 Berlin); survived underground, co-founder of the CDU in 1946, Federal Minister for all-German issues from 1949 to 1957
  • High Court Judge d. Res. At OKH Ludwig Kaiser , lawyer and pianist (born March 23, 1889 Wiesbaden; † September 28, 1978); Not charged for lack of material, but imprisoned until the end of the war, after 1945 lawyer
  • Franz Kempner , former State Secretary D. (born October 19, 1879 Bromberg; † March 5, 1945 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Albrecht von Kessel , diplomat, diplomat at the Vatican (born November 6, 1902 Ober.Glauche; † April 15, 1976 Bad Godesberg); interned in Rome since June 4, 1944; after 1945 in diplomatic service again
  • Otto Kiep , envoy (* July 7, 1886 Saltcoats / Scotland; † August 26, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Major of the reserve Georg Conrad Kißling (* July 20, 1893 Breslau; † July 22, 1944 Berlin, suicide)
  • Lieutenant Colonel Bernhard Klamroth (born November 20, 1910 Berlin, † August 15, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Major of the reserve in the Abwehr (intelligence service) Hans Georg Klamroth , businessman (born October 12, 1898 Halberstadt; † August 26, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Captain Friedrich Karl Klausing , Stauffenberg's adjutant, (* May 24, 1920 Munich; † August 8, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin , farmer (* March 22, 1890 Gut Groß Dubberow near Belgard / Pomerania; † April 9, 1945 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin , infantry lieutenant (born July 10, 1922 Gut Schmenzin near Belgard / Pomerania; † March 8, 2013 Munich)
  • Major Gerhard Knaak (born June 19, 1906 Königsberg; † September 4, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Hans Koch , lawyer (born August 16, 1893 Bartenstein in East Prussia; † April 24, 1945 Berlin, shot dead)
  • Heinrich Kodré , Colonel in the General Staff, released Valkyrie in Military District XVII (* August 8, 1899 Vienna, † May 22, 1977 Linz) acquitted of the court of honor
  • Heinrich Körner , Christian trade union leader and center politician, (born April 30, 1892 Essen, † April 26, 1945 Berlin); Sentenced to 4 years by the People's Court, shot under unclear circumstances after the Berlin-Plötzensee prison was liberated
  • Corvette Captain Alfred Kranzfelder (* February 10, 1908 Kempten; † August 10, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Ministerial Director in the Reich Ministry of Justice Walter Kriege (born March 15, 1891 Asuncion; † December 1, 1952 Düsseldorf)
  • Lieutenant Colonel i. G. Wilhelm Kuebart (born March 4, 1913 Trakehnen; † September 24, 1993 Marquartstein, sentenced to 5 years in prison)
  • Legation councilor Richard Kuenzer (born September 6, 1875 Freiburg; † April 23, 1945 Berlin, shot)
  • Major i. G. Joachim Kuhn (born August 2, 1913 Berlin; † March 6, 1994 Römershag near Bad Brückenau); was able to evade arrest
  • Major General Wilhelm Kunze (born November 15, 1894 Leipzig; † August 20, 1960 ibid); inaugurated, remained undiscovered
  • Elisabeth Kuznitzky , b. von Liliencron (born January 22, 1878 Strasbourg; † November 30, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)

L.

  • Major General Erwin von Lahousen -Vivremont, head of the sabotage department of the Foreign Office / Defense of the Wehrmacht (born October 25, 1897 Vienna; † February 24, 1955 Innsbruck); remained undiscovered
  • Lieutenant Colonel Fritz von der Lancken , boarding school director (* July 21, 1890 Diedenhofen; † September 29, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Carl Langbehn , lawyer (born December 6, 1901 Padang (Indonesia); † October 12, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Julius Leber , journalist, leading social democrat (born November 16, 1891 Biesheim / Alsace; † January 5, 1945 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • First Lieutenant d. R. Heinrich Graf von Lehndorff-Steinort , economist and landowner (born June 22, 1909 Hanover; † September 4, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Paul Lejeune-Jung (born March 16, 1882 Cologne, † September 8, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Major Ludwig Freiherr von Leonrod (born September 17, 1906 Munich; † August 26, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Captain in the OKW Bernhard Letterhaus , until 1933 Christian trade unionist, center member and vice-president of the Catholic Church Congress in Münster (* July 10, 1894 Barmen; † November 14, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Franz Leuninger , former General Secretary of the Christian Metalworkers' Association (* December 28, 1898 Mengerskirchen; † March 1, 1945 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Wilhelm Leuschner , leading trade unionist and social democrat, former Hessian interior minister (born June 15, 1890 Bayreuth; † September 29, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • General of the Artillery Fritz Lindemann (born April 11, 1894 Charlottenburg; † September 22, 1944 Berlin, succumbs to the gunshot wounds he sustained during his arrest)
  • Colonel i. G. Hans Otfried von Linstow (born March 16, 1899 Wittenberg; † August 30, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Paul Löbe , SPD politician and former President of the Reichstag, journalist (born December 14, 1875 Liegnitz; † August 3, 1967 Bonn); imprisoned until the end of the war; later founding President of the German Council of the European Movement and Chairman of the Board of Trustees Indivisible Germany
  • Ewald Loeser , lawyer, board member of Friedrich Krupp AG (born April 11, 1888 Storlow / Mark; † December 23, 1970)
  • Ferdinand Freiherr von Lüninck , lawyer, Upper President of Westphalia (born August 3, 1888 Ostwig, November 14, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Major Wilhelm Graf zu Lynar , farmer, adjutant von Witzleben (born February 3, 1899 Berlin; † September 29, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)

M.

  • Hermann Maaß , philosopher, leading social democrat (* October 23, Bromberg 1897; † October 20, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Colonel Rudolf Graf von Marogna-Redwitz (born October 15, 1886 Munich, † October 12, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Carl Adolf Marks , businessman (born February 14, 1894 Bärenstein; † April 23, 1945 Berlin, shot)
  • Michael Graf von Matuschka , government director in Katowice (born September 29, 1888 Schweidnitz, † September 14, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Colonel i. G. Joachim Meichßner (born April 4, 1906 Deutsch-Eylau; † September 29, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Colonel Albrecht Ritter Mertz von Quirnheim (born March 25, 1905 Munich, † July 21, 1944 Berlin, shot on the personal orders of General Friedrich Fromm)
  • Lieutenant Colonel i. G. Karl Michel (born March 28, 1904 Wiesbaden; † January 14, 1945 near Ozoli near Kuldīga in a death squad in the Kurland basin , to which he had been assigned at Himmler's behest)
  • Carlo Mierendorff , economist, journalist, leading SPD politician (born March 24, 1897 Grossenhain; † December 4, 1943 Leipzig in a bombing raid)
  • Helmuth James Graf von Moltke , lawyer (born March 11, 1907 Kreisau; † January 23, 1945 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Prelate Otto Müller , priest and president of the Catholic Workers' Movement (KAB) (* December 9, 1870 Eckenhagen; † October 12, 1944 Prison Hospital Berlin-Tegel)
  • Colonel Wolfgang Müller , head of the infantry division of the General Army Office; imprisoned after July 20 until the end of the war (* December 15, 1901 Bad Rehburg; † January 6, 1986 Mettmann)
  • Lieutenant Colonel Ernst Munzinger (* July 6, 1887 Riga, Russian Empire, † April 23, 1945 Berlin, shot without judgment)

N

  • Reichskriminaldirektor Arthur Nebe , head of the Reichskriminalpolizeiamt (born November 13, 1894 Berlin; † March 21, 1945 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Wilhelm zur Nieden , City Planning Officer (born August 29, 1878 Fröndenberg; † April 23, 1945 Berlin, shot)
  • Gustav Noske , SPD politician, minister, journalist (born July 9, 1868 Brandenburg an der Havel, † November 30, 1946 Hanover); imprisoned after July 20, 1944 until the end of the war

O

  • Major i. G. Hans-Ulrich von Oertzen (born March 6, 1915 Berlin; † July 21, 1944 Berlin, suicide)
  • General of the Infantry Friedrich Olbricht (* October 4, 1888 Leisnig; † July 21, 1944 Berlin, shot on the personal orders of General Friedrich Fromm)
  • Lieutenant Georg Sigismund von Oppen (* January 27, 1923 in Potsdam, † 22 February, 2008 Gualeguaychú, Argentina), was after imprisonment in solitary confinement Lehrterstraße dismissed
  • Major General Hans Oster (born August 9, 1887 Dresden; † April 9, 1945 Flossenbürg concentration camp, executed)
  • Margarethe von Oven , secretary (born March 11, 1904 Schöneberg near Berlin; † February 5, 1991 Göttingen), was considered unsuspicious after interrogation

P

  • Friedrich Justus Perels , legal advisor of the Confessing Church (born November 13, 1910 Berlin; † April 23, 1945 Berlin, shot)
  • State Secretary a. D. Erwin Planck , son of Max Planck (born March 12, 1893 Charlottenburg; † January 23, 1945 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Karl Georg Pfleiderer , employee in the Foreign Office (born May 10, 1899 Stuttgart, † October 8, 1957 Bonn), after 1945 member of the Bundestag and ambassador of the FRG.
  • Kurt von Plettenberg , President of the Court Chamber (born January 31, 1891 Bückeburg; † March 10, 1945 Berlin, suicide in Gestapo custody)
  • Louis Ferdinand of Prussia , Prussian and German pretender to the throne (born November 9, 1907 Potsdam; † September 25, 1994 Bremen)
  • Johannes Popitz , Prussian Finance Minister (* December 2, 1884 Leipzig; † February 2, 1945 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)

R.

  • Cuno Raabe , lawyer (born May 5, 1888 Fulda, † May 3, 1971 Gersfeld (Rhön)); Imprisoned from July 1944 until the end of the war, after the war CDU politician and vice-president of the Hessian state parliament
  • General Friedrich von Rabenau (born October 10, 1884 Berlin † April 1945 Flossenbürg concentration camp, shot without judgment)
  • Lieutenant Colonel i. G. Karl Ernst Rahtgens (born August 27, 1908 Lübeck; † August 30, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Adolf Reichwein , leading social democrat (born October 3, 1898 Bad Ems; † October 20, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Colonel Alexis Freiherr von Roenne (born February 22, 1903 Tuckum / Kurland; † October 12, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Wilhelm Roloff , Commercial Director of Nordsee GmbH (born March 28, 1900 Altona; † February 22, 1979 Toronto, Canada)
  • Provincial Augustin Rösch , SJ (born May 11, 1893 Schwandorf; † November 7, 1961 Munich); Member of the Catholic wing of the Kreisau Circle, arrested January 11, 1945 and severely mistreated, released on April 25, 1945
  • Field Marshal General Erwin Rommel (born November 15, 1891 Heidenheim an der Brenz; † October 14, 1944 Herrlingen near Ulm, forced to commit suicide); Contacts to the resistance around Stauffenberg are controversial in research

S.

  • General staff judge Karl Sack (born June 9, 1896 Bosenheim; † April 9, 1945 Flossenbürg concentration camp, executed)
  • Lieutenant Colonel i. G. Joachim Sadrozinski (born September 20, 1907 Tilsit; † September 29, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Anton Saefkow , mechanical engineer, leading communist (born July 22, 1903 Berlin; † September 18, 1944 Brandenburg-Görden, executed)
  • Major Hans-Viktor Graf von Salviati (born August 23, 1897 Stuttgart, † April 23, 1945 Berlin cell prison Lehrter Strasse, executed by the SS)
  • Major Adolf Friedrich Graf von Schack (born August 3, 1888 St. Goar; † January 15, 1945 Brandenburg-Görden, executed)
  • First Lieutenant Fabian von Schlabrendorff (born July 1, 1907 Halle (Saale), † September 3, 1980 Wiesbaden); Imprisoned without judgment until the end of the war
  • Rüdiger Schleicher , Ministerialrat in the Luftamt (born January 14, 1895 Stuttgart; † April 23, 1945 Berlin, murdered)
  • Major General Hans Georg Schmidt von Altenstadt , head of the war administration department at the Quartermaster General, (* August 21, 1904 Langfuhr / Danzig; † July 25, 1944 Bad Tölz), sounded out to commanders how they would behave during the impending assassination attempt, escaped an accident resulting in death of persecution
  • Egidius Schneider (born August 12, 1893 Vettelschoss, Neuwied district; † January 11, 1958 Königswinter), lawyer, Caritas officer, officer; Accused of high treason in 1944 and imprisoned in Berlin-Plötzensee, but escaped execution and became a prisoner of war
  • Ernst Schneppenhorst , carpenter, SPD politician, union leader (born April 19, 1881 Krefeld, † April 24, 1945 Berlin, murdered)
  • Otto Schniewind , banker (born August 15, 1887 Cologne, † February 26, 1970 Starnberg); Imprisoned until the end of the war, later co-founder of the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau
  • Rittmeister d. R. Friedrich Scholz-Babisch (born April 10, 1890 Rohrau, Silesia; † October 13, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Colonel Hermann Schöne , manufacturer (born May 6, 1888 Kirchhain / Niederlausitz; † January 15, 1945 Brandenburg-Görden, executed)
  • Lieutenant Colonel Werner Schrader (* March 7, 1895 Rottorf; † July 28, 1944 Zossen, suicide)
  • Ambassador Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg (born November 20, 1875 Kemberg; † November 10, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • District President Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg (born September 5, 1902 London; † August 10, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Colonel i. G. Georg Schulze-Büttger (born October 5, 1904 in Posen; † October 13, 1944 in Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Council of State a. D. Ludwig Schwamb , lawyer, leading social democrat (born July 30, 1890 Undenheim; † January 23, 1945 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Officer in the OKW Ulrich Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld (* December 21, 1902 Copenhagen; † September 8, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Hans Ludwig Sierks , civil engineer (* July 24, 1877 Seeth; † April 22/23, 1945 Berlin, shot)
  • Lieutenant Colonel i. G. Günther Smend (born November 29, 1912 Trier; † September 8, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Franz Sperr , entrepreneur, last Bavarian envoy in Berlin until 1934 (* February 12, 1878 Karlstadt am Main; † January 23, 1945 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Colonel Wilhelm Staehle (* November 20, 1877 Neuenhaus; † April 23, 1945 Berlin, shot dead despite a sentence of 2 years imprisonment)
  • Hanna Solf (born November 14, 1887 Neuenhagen near Berlin; † November 4, 1954 Starnberg); imprisoned from 1943 until the end of the war
  • Friedrich Hermann zu Solms-Baruth (born March 25, 1886 Klitschdorf / Silesia; † September 12, 1951 Windhoek / Namibia); imprisoned without judgment until the end of the war
  • Lieutenant General Hans Speidel (born October 28, 1897 Metzingen; † November 28, 1984 Bad Honnef; Erwin Rommel's chief of staff. Was suspected of complicity and imprisoned after the assassination attempt, but escaped captivity shortly before the end of the war)
  • Naval Chief Justice Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg , (born March 15, 1905 Stuttgart; † August 10, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Colonel i. G. Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (born November 15, 1907 Jettingen; † July 21, 1944 Berlin, shot on the personal orders of General Friedrich Fromm)
  • Colonel i. G. Hans-Joachim Freiherr von Steinaecker (born December 30, 1887; taken prisoner by the Soviets and found shot on July 26, 1945 in Rüdersdorf near Berlin)
  • Officer in the General Staff Theodor Steltzer (born December 17, 1885 Trittau, † October 27, 1967 Munich); Sentenced to death in January 1945; the execution could be postponed through foreign intercession
  • Major General Hellmuth Stieff (born June 6, 1901 Deutsch-Eylau; † August 8, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Captain d. R. in OKW Theodor Strünck (* April 7, 1895 Pries near Kiel; † April 9, 1945 in Flossenbürg concentration camp)
  • General Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel (born January 2, 1886 Berlin - † August 30, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Major Carl Szokoll (born October 15, 1915 Vienna; † August 25, 2004 there); remained undiscovered, after the war film producer

T

  • Lieutenant Colonel Gustav Tellgmann (* October 22, 1891 Weida; † February 26, 1945 Brandenburg-Görden, executed)
  • Lieutenant General Fritz Thiele (born April 14, 1894 Berlin; † September 4, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Major Busso Thoma (born October 31, 1899 St. Blasien-Immeneich; † January 23, 1945 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Lieutenant General Karl Freiherr von Thüngen (born June 26, 1893 Mainz, † October 24, 1944, executed in Brandenburg prison)
  • Lieutenant Colonel Gerd von Tresckow (born March 21, 1899 Lüben; † September 6, 1944 Berlin, suicide)
  • Major General Henning von Tresckow (born January 10, 1901 Magdeburg, † July 21, 1944 Ostrów Mazowiecki (Bialystok district), suicide)
  • Legation councilor Adam von Trott zu Solz (born August 9, 1909 Potsdam; † August 26, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)

U

V

  • Fritz Voigt , commercial clerk, SPD politician, trade unionist (born November 18, 1882 Trebra; † March 1, 1945 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Lieutenant Colonel Hans-Alexander von Voss (* December 13, 1907 Charlottenburg; † November 8, 1944 Heinersdorf near Berlin, suicide )

W.

  • General of the Artillery Eduard Wagner , Quartermaster General of the Army (born April 1, 1894 Kirchenlamitz; † July 23, 1944 Zossen, suicide)
  • Colonel Siegfried Wagner (* February 16, 1881 Graudenz; † July 26, 1944 Sachsenhausen concentration camp, from the injuries caused by a suicide attempt when he was arrested)
  • Hermann Josef Wehrle , Catholic priest (born July 26, 1899 Nuremberg, † September 14, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Carl Wentzel , entrepreneur (born December 9, 1876 Brachwitz; † December 20, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Joachim Wilhelm Freiherr von Willisen , forest scientist, officer (born January 31, 1900 Gut Bärwalde; † April 5, 1983, Munich) during the interrogations could not be proven to him that he was informed about the planned attack or knew about it.
  • Josef Wirmer , lawyer (born March 19, 1901 Paderborn; † September 8, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Oswald Wiersich , mechanical engineer, union leader, SPD politician (born September 1, 1882 Breslau; † March 1, 1945 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Field Marshal General Erwin von Witzleben (* December 4, 1881 Breslau; † August 8, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)

Y

  • Senior Government Councilor Peter Graf Yorck von Wartenburg (born November 13, 1904 Klein-Oels; † August 8, 1944 Berlin-Plötzensee, executed)
  • Paul Graf Yorck von Wartenburg , Fideikommissherr on Klein-Oels (born January 26, 1902 Klein-Oels; † June 9, 2002 Neureichenau); from July 1944 until the end of the war in clan detention without judgment; after the Second World War co-founder of the CDU and German diplomat

See also

literature

  • Antje Vollmer , Lars-Broder Keil: Stauffenberg's Companions: The Fate of the Unknown Conspirators . Hanser 2013.
  • Ines Reich: Potsdam and July 20 - In the footsteps of the resistance against National Socialism, accompanying publication for the exhibition of the Military History Research Office and the Potsdam Museum . Rombach Verlag 1994.

Memorials

Web links

Commons : Persons of July 20, 1944  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Reading sample (pdf) at www.hanser-literaturverlage.de