Wilhelm Graf zu Lynar

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Memorial plaque for Wilhelm Graf zu Lynar at Lübbenau Castle

Wilhelm Friedrich Rochus Graf zu Lynar (born February 3, 1899 in Berlin , † September 29, 1944 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was a landowner, farmer, reserve officer and involved in the assassination attempt of July 20, 1944 against Hitler .

Life

Wilhelm Friedrich, called Wilfried, was a godson of Wilhelm II. He graduated from high school in Luckau and then became a flagjunker with the Potsdam Life Guard Hussars. After the First World War he learned agriculture and forestry. In 1923 he married Ilse Countess Behr Negendank from Semlow and moved to his family's estate in Tornow . After the death of his father Rochus Friedrich in 1928, he took over the management of the family property and moved to Lübbenau Castle as the last lord of the free class rule . In 1930 he, now the father of four children, moved his family's residence to Gut Seese, which is also family-owned . Following a family tradition, he became a legal knight of the Order of St. John .

He became a member of the German national organization Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten , but was skeptical of National Socialism . Lynar was a reserve officer in the Wehrmacht in the 6th Panzer Regiment in Neuruppin . During the Second World War he was a major and staff officer responsible for human resources at the General Command in Berlin. Later he was adjutant to General Field Marshal Erwin von Witzleben , who was in the Führerreserve and who then lived at Gut Seese.

Wilhelm Friedrich Graf zu Lynar was informed about the earlier assassination plans in circles of the military opposition. Lynar made his Seese Castle available for the meeting of the conspirators around Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg . He had contacts with Fritz Jaeger and Ludwig Gehre , who established the connection to Henning von Tresckow . On July 20, 1944, Lynar accompanied his former superior Erwin von Witzleben to the Bendler block . After the failed assassination attempt, he and Lynar were arrested by the Gestapo in Seese . On September 29, 1944, the People's Court sentenced Wilhelm Friedrich Graf zu Lynar to death ; on the same day he was hanged in Plötzensee . The widow with her four sons and two daughters was expropriated.

At Lübbenau Castle, which is now owned by the family again, there is a memorial plaque for Wilhelm Friedrich Graf zu Lynar.

literature

  • Hans-Adolf Jacobsen (ed.): Mirror image of a conspiracy. The opposition to Hitler and the coup d'état of July 20, 1944 in the SD reporting. Secret documents from the former Reich Security Main Office. 2 vols. Stuttgart 1984.
  • Peter Hoffmann : Resistance, Coup, Assassination. The fight of the opposition against Hitler. Munich 1969, 1985 (Piper TB).
  • Beatrix Countess zu Lynar: What happened to the castle and its masters? In: History of the City of Lübbenau / Spreewald - 20th Century - , 2004, page 254 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beatrix Countess zu Lynar: What happened to the castle and its masters? In: History of the City of Lübbenau / Spreewald - 20th Century -, 2004, page 255.
personal data
SURNAME Lynar, Wilhelm Graf too
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lynar, Wilhelm Friedrich Rochus Graf too
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, last gentleman from Lübbenau and supporter of the assassination attempt of July 20, 1944
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1944
Place of death Berlin-Plötzensee